Harvey Fierstein
Acting
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
2023Commitment to Life
Self (archive footage)
2022Bros
Louis
2020Disarm Hate
Narrator
2020Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Performer
2019Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Self
2018Animal Crackers
Esmerelda (voice)
2016Hairspray Live!
Edna Turnblad
2015The Making of the Wiz Live!
Self
2015Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Self (Archive)
2014Russian Broadway Shut Down
2012Foodfight!
Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
2007ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Self
2007Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Self
2006The Year Without a Santa Claus
Heat Miser
2006The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Host
2006Farce of the Penguins
Sheila (voz)
2005Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Self - Host
2004Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Self
2004Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Self (voice)
2004Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Self
2004Mulan II
Yao (voice)
2003The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Self
2003Duplex
Kenneth
2002Death to Smoochy
Merv Green
