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.
59 movies · 24 shows
Commitment to Life
2023·0.0
Bros
2022·6.6
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020·0.0
Disarm Hate
2020·1.0
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019·6.5
Animal Crackers
2018·6.4
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017·4.5
Hairspray Live!
2016·7.3
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015·0.0
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015·0.0
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014·0.0
Foodfight!
2012·1.9
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007·7.2
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007·0.0
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006·5.8
Farce of the Penguins
2006·4.2
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006·0.0
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005·7.2
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004·6.0
Mulan II
2004·6.5
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004·3.5
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
2004·7.6
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004·8.0
Duplex
2003·6.1
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003·9.4
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002·0.0
Death to Smoochy
2002·5.9
Rescued from the Closet
2001·6.5
One on One with Vito Russo
2001·0.0
Playing Mona Lisa
2000·6.0
Common Ground
2000·5.0
The Sissy Duckling
1999·5.1
Double Platinum
1999·7.9
Jump
1999·4.3
Safe Men
1998·5.5
Mulan
1998·7.9
Kull the Conqueror
1997·5.0
White Lies
1997·3.8
Three Little Pigs
1997·5.8
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996·6.0
Everything Relative
1996·2.9
Independence Day
1996·6.9
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996·6.1
The Celluloid Closet
1996·7.2
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995·4.7
Bullets Over Broadway
1994·7.1
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994·0.0
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993·7.2
The Harvest
1993·4.8
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993·0.0
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991·0.0
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990·0.0
Torch Song Trilogy
1988·7.3
Tidy Endings
1988·4.0
MaMa's Pushcart
1988·0.0
Apology
1986·5.1
Garbo Talks
1984·6.3
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984·7.3
The Demon Murder Case
1983·6.2