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