Harvey Fierstein
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Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogy (about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. He also wrote the book for the musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning "Kinky Boots". He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.
Known for
Credits
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
as Frank
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Mulan (1998)
as Yao (voice)
Independence Day (1996)
as Marty Gilbert
Mulan II (2004)
as Yao (voice)
Duplex (2003)
as Kenneth
Bros (2022)
as Louis
Animal Crackers (2018)
as Esmerelda (voice)
Hairspray Live! (2016)
as Edna Turnblad
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
as Sid Loomis
Foodfight! (2012)
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Safe Men (1998)
as Good Stuff Leo
Kull the Conqueror (1997)
as Juba
Death to Smoochy (2002)
as Merv Green
White Lies (1997)
as Art Hoarder
Farce of the Penguins (2006)
as Sheila (voz)
Garbo Talks (1984)
as Bernie Whitlock
Common Ground (2000)
as Don
The Celluloid Closet (1996)
as Self
Commitment to Life (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
The Harvest (1993)
as Bob Lakin
The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
as Self (archive)
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)
as Yves DuBois
Rescued from the Closet (2001)
as Self
The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006)
as Heat Miser
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)
as Host
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
as Arnold Beckoff
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas (1996)
as Easter Bunny
Playing Mona Lisa (2000)
as Bennett
Double Platinum (1999)
as Gary Millstein
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
as Narrator (voice)
Apology (1986)
as The derelict
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends (1993)
as Self
The Sissy Duckling (1999)
as Elmer (voice)
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series (2003)
as Self
Jump (1999)
as Dish Macense
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire (2015)
as Self (Archive)
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)
as Self
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde (2004)
as Self
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards (2005)
as Self - Host
The Making of 'Independence Day' (1996)
as Self
Tidy Endings (1988)
as Arthur
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary (2002)
as Self
Russian Broadway Shut Down (2014)
Actor
The Demon Murder Case (1983)
as The Demon (voice)
The Making of the Wiz Live! (2015)
as Self
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019)
as Self
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis (2004)
as Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman (2007)
as Self
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (2004)
as Self (voice)
Everything Relative (1996)
as The Moyle
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway (2020)
as Performer
Three Little Pigs (1997)
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? (1990)
as Self
MaMa's Pushcart (1988)
Actor
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest (1994)
as Self
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story (1991)
as Andrew
One on One with Vito Russo (2001)
as Self (archive)
Disarm Hate (2020)
as Narrator