Harvey Fierstein

Acting

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 83

Movies (59)

Commitment to Life
2023
Self (archive footage)
Bros
2022
Louis
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020
Performer
Disarm Hate
2020
Narrator
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
Self
Animal Crackers
2018
Esmerelda (voice)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
Self (archive)
Hairspray Live!
2016
Edna Turnblad
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
Self (Archive)
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015
Self
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Foodfight!
2012
Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
Self
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
Heat Miser
Farce of the Penguins
2006
Sheila (voice)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
Host
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
Self - Host
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
Self
Mulan II
2004
Yao (voice)
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004
Self
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
2004
Self (uncredited)
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
Self (voice)
Duplex
2003
Kenneth
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
Self
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002
Self
Death to Smoochy
2002
Merv Green
One on One with Vito Russo
2001
Self (archive)
Rescued from the Closet
2001
Self
Playing Mona Lisa
2000
Bennett

Biography

Filmography 83

Movies (59)

Shows (24)