Harvey Fierstein
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1952-06-06
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Harvey Fierstein
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.
Also Known For
White Lies
Apr 01, 1997
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Dec 27, 2004
Bros
Sep 30, 2022
Jump
Apr 17, 1999
The Demon Murder Case
Mar 06, 1983
Three Little Pigs
Jan 01, 1997
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Feb 24, 2004
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Dec 11, 2006
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
Sep 23, 1994
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
Aug 31, 1990
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
Jan 22, 1993
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Aug 23, 2019
Animal Crackers
Jun 23, 2017
Hairspray Live!
Dec 07, 2016
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Nov 25, 2015
Foodfight!
Jun 15, 2012
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Apr 19, 2007
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Apr 01, 2007
Farce of the Penguins
Dec 01, 2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
May 02, 2006
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Aug 07, 2005
Mulan II
Nov 03, 2004
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
May 05, 2004
Duplex
Sep 26, 2003
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Jan 01, 2003
Death to Smoochy
Mar 29, 2002
Playing Mona Lisa
May 01, 2000
Common Ground
Jan 29, 2000
Safe Men
Aug 07, 1998
Mulan
Jun 18, 1998
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Dec 24, 1996
Kull the Conqueror
Aug 29, 1997
Everything Relative
Sep 13, 1996
Independence Day
Jun 25, 1996
The Celluloid Closet
Jan 30, 1996
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Aug 25, 1995
Bullets Over Broadway
Oct 14, 1994
Mrs. Doubtfire
Nov 24, 1993
The Harvest
Nov 05, 1993
Tidy Endings
Aug 14, 1988
Torch Song Trilogy
Dec 14, 1988
MaMa's Pushcart
Jan 01, 1988
Apology
Jul 27, 1986
Garbo Talks
Oct 12, 1984
The Times of Harvey Milk
Oct 07, 1984
Double Platinum
May 16, 1999
The Sissy Duckling
Sep 14, 1999
The Making of 'Independence Day'
Jun 29, 1996
Disarm Hate
Mar 15, 2020
Russian Broadway Shut Down
Jan 23, 2014
Rescued from the Closet
May 29, 2001
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
Sep 17, 2002
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Jul 13, 2020
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
Sep 18, 1991
How I Met Your Mother
Sep 19, 2005
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Feb 08, 2016
Family Guy
Jan 31, 1999
Intimate Portrait
Nov 14, 1993
Hercules
Aug 31, 1998
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Mar 12, 1995
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Jul 16, 2009
Trailblazer Honors
Jun 27, 2014
Family Guy
Jan 31, 1999
Daddy's Girls
Sep 21, 1994
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
Miami Vice
Sep 16, 1984
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
Smash
Feb 06, 2012
BoJack Horseman
Aug 22, 2014
Big Mouth
Sep 29, 2017
Cheers
Sep 30, 1982
Murder, She Wrote
Sep 30, 1984
Ellen
Mar 29, 1994
The Good Wife
Sep 22, 2009
