Overview
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
06 Jun, 1954 (70 years old)
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.
Known For
Acting
2022
Bros
2019
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2017
Animal Crackers
2012
Foodfight!
2006
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
Farce of the Penguins
2004
Mulan II
2003
Duplex
2002
Death to Smoochy
2000
Playing Mona Lisa
1999
The Sissy Duckling
1999
Double Platinum
1998
Safe Men
1998
Mulan
1997
Kull the Conqueror
1997
White Lies
1996
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996
Independence Day
1996
The Celluloid Closet
1995
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1994
Bullets Over Broadway
1993
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
The Harvest
1988
Torch Song Trilogy
1984
Garbo Talks
1984
The Times of Harvey Milk