Harvey Fierstein
Known for: Acting
Born: June 6, 1952
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
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Filmography
63 movies · 24 TV shows, newest first
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Commitment to Life
2023
6.6
Bros
2022
NR
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020
1.0
Disarm Hate
2020
7.8
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
6.5
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
7.8
Kinky Boots: The Musical
2019
8.0
Funny Girl
2018
6.4
Animal Crackers
2018
7.6
Big Mouth
2017
5.0
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
8.0
Newsies
2017
7.3
Hairspray Live!
2016
6.0
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016
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Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
7.0
The Wiz Live!
2015
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The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015
8.5
BoJack Horseman
2014
7.5
Trailblazer Honors
2014
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
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Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
1.9
Foodfight!
2012
6.4
Smash
2012
7.6
The Good Wife
2009
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
7.1
Nurse Jackie
2009
7.2
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
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Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
5.8
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
4.2
Farce of the Penguins
2006
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
8.1
How I Met Your Mother
2005
7.2
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
6.0
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
6.5
Mulan II
2004
4.1
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004
7.6
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
2004
8.0
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
6.1
Duplex
2003
9.4
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
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Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002
5.9
Death to Smoochy
2002
6.5
Rescued from the Closet
2001
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One on One with Vito Russo
2001
6.0
Playing Mona Lisa
2000
5.0
Common Ground
2000
5.1
The Sissy Duckling
1999
7.9
Double Platinum
1999
4.3
Jump
1999
7.4
Family Guy
1999
6.9
Hercules
1998
5.5
Safe Men
1998
7.9
Mulan
1998
5.0
Kull the Conqueror
1997
3.8
White Lies
19975.8
Three Little Pigs
1997
6.0
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996
2.9
Everything Relative
1996
6.9
Independence Day
1996
6.1
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996
7.2
The Celluloid Closet
1996
4.7
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995
6.3
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
7.1
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
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Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994
10.0
Daddy's Girls
1994
6.1
Ellen
1994
7.2
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
4.5
Intimate Portrait
1993
4.8
The Harvest
1993
NR
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993
7.7
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
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In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991
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The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990
8.0
The Simpsons
1989
7.3
Torch Song Trilogy
1988
4.0
Tidy Endings
1988
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MaMa's Pushcart
1988
5.1
Apology
1986
6.3
Garbo Talks
1984
7.3
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
7.4
Miami Vice
1984
6.2
The Demon Murder Case
1983
7.6
Cheers
1982
6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
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Tony Awards
1956