Harvey Fierstein
Actor · WriterHarvey 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.
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FILMOGRAPHY
ACTOR59
Commitment to Life
2023
Self (archive footage)
Bros
2022
Louis
Disarm Hate
2020
Narrator
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020
Performer
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
Self
Animal Crackers
2018
Esmerelda (voice)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
Self (archive)
Hairspray Live!
2016
Edna Turnblad
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015
Self
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
Self (Archive)
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
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
Host
Farce of the Penguins
2006
Sheila (voice)
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
Self - Host
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
Self
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
Self (voice)
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004
Self
Mulan II
2004
Yao (voice)
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
2004
Self (uncredited)
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
Self
Duplex
2003
Kenneth
Death to Smoochy
2002
Merv Green
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002
Self
Rescued from the Closet
2001
Self
One on One with Vito Russo
2001
Self (archive)
Common Ground
2000
Don
Playing Mona Lisa
2000
Bennett
Jump
1999
Dish Macense
Double Platinum
1999
Gary Millstein
The Sissy Duckling
1999
Elmer (voice)
Safe Men
1998
Good Stuff Leo
Mulan
1998
Yao (voice)
White Lies
1997
Art Hoarder
- Three Little Pigs
Three Little Pigs
1997
The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
Kull the Conqueror
1997
Juba
Everything Relative
1996
The Moyle
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996
Easter Bunny
The Celluloid Closet
1996
Self
Independence Day
1996
Marty Gilbert
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996
Self
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995
Yves DuBois
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994
Self
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
Sid Loomis
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993
Self
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
Frank
The Harvest
1993
Bob Lakin
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991
Andrew
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990
Self
Torch Song Trilogy
1988
Arnold Beckoff
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
Tidy Endings
1988
Arthur
Apology
1986
The derelict
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984
Narrator (voice)
Garbo Talks
1984
Bernie Whitlock
The Demon Murder Case
1983
The Demon (voice)
