Harvey Fierstein
Biography
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.
Filmography
Commitment to Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Bros
2022
as Louis
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020
as Performer
Disarm Hate
2020
as Narrator
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
as Self
Animal Crackers
2018
as Esmerelda (voice)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
as Self (archive)
Hairspray Live!
2016
as Edna Turnblad
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
as Self (Archive)
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015
as Self
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Foodfight!
2012
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
as Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
as Self
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
as Heat Miser
Farce of the Penguins
2006
as Sheila (voice)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Host
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
as Self - Host
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
as Self
Mulan II
2004
as Yao (voice)
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004
as Self
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
2004
as Self (uncredited)
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
as Self (voice)
Duplex
2003
as Kenneth