Harvey Fierstein
Known for ActingBorn 1952-06-06Brooklyn, 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.
Known for
Independence Day
1996 · as Marty Gilbert
Mulan
1998 · as Yao (voice)
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993 · as Frank
Mulan II
2004 · as Yao (voice)
Duplex
2003 · as Kenneth
Foodfight!
2012 · as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Bros
2022 · as Louis
Safe Men
1998 · as Good Stuff Leo
Animal Crackers
2018 · as Esmerelda (voice)
Hairspray Live!
2016 · as Edna Turnblad
Death to Smoochy
2002 · as Merv Green
Commitment to Life
2023 · as Self (archive footage)
Everything Relative
1996 · as The Moyle
Kull the Conqueror
1997 · as Juba
Bullets Over Broadway
1994 · as Sid Loomis
Playing Mona Lisa
2000 · as Bennett
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004 · as Self