Personal Info
Birthday
June 6, 1952
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Acting
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.
Acting Filmography (82)
0.0
Commitment to Life
Movie2023
6.6
Bros
Movie2022
0.0
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Movie2020
1.0
Disarm Hate
Movie2020
7.8
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
TV Series2019
6.5
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Movie2019
6.4
Animal Crackers
Movie2018
7.6
Big Mouth
TV Series2017
4.5
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Movie2017
7.3
Hairspray Live!
Movie2016
5.9
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
TV Series2016
No Backdrop
0.0
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Movie2015
No Backdrop
0.0
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Movie2015
8.5
BoJack Horseman
TV Series2014
7.5
Trailblazer Honors
TV Series2014
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV Series2014
0.0
Russian Broadway Shut Down
Movie2014
1.9
Foodfight!
Movie2012
6.4
Smash
TV Series2012
7.6
The Good Wife
TV Series2009
5.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV Series2009
7.1
Nurse Jackie
TV Series2009
7.2
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Movie2007
No Backdrop
0.0
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Movie2007
5.8
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Movie2006
4.2
Farce of the Penguins
Movie2006
No Backdrop
0.0
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Movie2006
8.1
How I Met Your Mother
TV Series2005
No Backdrop
7.2
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Movie2005
No Backdrop
6.0
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Movie2004
6.5
Mulan II
Movie2004
3.5
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Movie2004
7.6
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
Movie2004
No Backdrop
8.0
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Movie2004
6.1
Duplex
Movie2003
9.4
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Movie2003
No Backdrop
0.0
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
Movie2002
5.9
Death to Smoochy
Movie2002
No Backdrop
6.5
Rescued from the Closet
Movie2001
No Backdrop
0.0
One on One with Vito Russo
Movie2001
6.0
Playing Mona Lisa
Movie2000
5.0
Common Ground
Movie2000
5.1
The Sissy Duckling
Movie1999
8.0
Double Platinum
Movie1999
No Backdrop
4.3
Jump
Movie1999
7.4
Family Guy
TV Series1999
6.9
Hercules
TV Series1998
5.5
Safe Men
Movie1998
7.9
Mulan
Movie1998
5.0
Kull the Conqueror
Movie1997
3.8
White Lies
Movie1997
6.0
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Movie1996
No Backdrop
2.9
Everything Relative
Movie1996
6.9
Independence Day
Movie1996
No Backdrop
6.1
The Making of 'Independence Day'
Movie1996
7.2
The Celluloid Closet
Movie1996
4.7
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Movie1995
6.3
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV Series1995
7.1
Bullets Over Broadway
Movie1994
No Backdrop
0.0
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
Movie1994
10.0
Daddy's Girls
TV Series1994
6.1
Ellen
TV Series1994
7.2
Mrs. Doubtfire
Movie1993
4.5
Intimate Portrait
TV Series1993
4.8
The Harvest
Movie1993
No Backdrop
0.0
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
Movie1993
7.7
The Larry Sanders Show
TV Series1992
No Backdrop
0.0
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
Movie1991
No Backdrop
0.0
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
Movie1990
8.0
The Simpsons
TV Series1989
7.3
Torch Song Trilogy
Movie1988
4.0
Tidy Endings
Movie1988
No Backdrop
0.0
MaMa's Pushcart
Movie1988
5.1
Apology
Movie1986
6.3
Garbo Talks
Movie1984
7.3
The Times of Harvey Milk
Movie1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
TV Series1984
7.4
Miami Vice
TV Series1984
6.2
The Demon Murder Case
Movie1983
7.6
Cheers
TV Series1982
6.9
Saturday Night Live
TV Series1975
No Backdrop
0.0
Tony Awards
TV Series1956