Harvey Fierstein
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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.

Films Featuring Harvey Fierstein

White Lies

19973.8

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

20046.0

Bros

20226.6

Jump

19994.3

The Demon Murder Case

19836.2

Three Little Pigs

Three Little Pigs

19975.8

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

20048.0

The Year Without a Santa Claus

20065.8

Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest

1994

The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

1990

An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends

1993

Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

20044.1

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006

Death to Smoochy

20025.9

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

20039.4

Foodfight!

20121.9

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

20196.5

Mulan II

20046.5

Safe Men

19985.5

Everything Relative

19962.9

Bullets Over Broadway

19947.1

Torch Song Trilogy

19887.3

MaMa's Pushcart

1988

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

20077.2

Words and Music by Jerry Herman

2007

Farce of the Penguins

20064.2

Common Ground

20005.0

Animal Crackers

20186.4

Mulan

19987.9

Kull the Conqueror

19975.0

The Making of the Wiz Live!

2015

Hairspray Live!

20167.3

Mrs. Doubtfire

19937.2

The Times of Harvey Milk

19847.3

Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

19966.0

The Celluloid Closet

19967.2

Duplex

20036.1

Independence Day

19966.9

Tidy Endings

19884.0

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

19954.7

The Harvest

19934.8

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

20057.2

Playing Mona Lisa

20006.0

Apology

19865.1

Garbo Talks

19846.3

Double Platinum

19997.9

The Sissy Duckling

19995.1

The Making of 'Independence Day'

19966.1

Disarm Hate

20201.0

Russian Broadway Shut Down

2014

Rescued from the Closet

20016.5

Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary

2002

Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway

2020

In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story

1991

Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire

2015

Commitment to Life

2023

The Fabulous Allan Carr

20175.0

One on One with Vito Russo

2001

Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!

20047.6