Harvey Fierstein
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1952-06-06
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known for
White Lies
1997Art Hoarder
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004Self
Bros
2022Louis
Jump
1999Dish Macense
The Demon Murder Case
1983The Demon (voice)Three Little Pigs
1997The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004Self (voice)
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006Heat Miser
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994Self
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990Self
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993Self
Duplex
2003Kenneth
Mulan
1998Yao (voice)
Kull the Conqueror
1997Juba
Independence Day
1996Marty Gilbert
Foodfight!
2012Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Farce of the Penguins
2006Sheila (voz)
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004Self
Common Ground
2000Don