Harvey Fierstein
Department: Acting
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
1997
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
Bros
2022
Jump
1999
The Demon Murder Case
1983
Three Little Pigs
1997
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
Animal Crackers
2018
Hairspray Live!
2016
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015
Foodfight!
2012
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
Farce of the Penguins
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
Mulan II
2004
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004
Duplex
2003
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
Death to Smoochy
2002
Playing Mona Lisa
2000
Common Ground
2000
Safe Men
1998
Mulan
1998
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996
Kull the Conqueror
1997
Everything Relative
1996
Independence Day
1996
The Celluloid Closet
1996
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
The Harvest
1993
Tidy Endings
1988
Torch Song Trilogy
1988
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
Apology
1986
Garbo Talks
1984
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984
Double Platinum
1999
The Sissy Duckling
1999
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996
Disarm Hate
2020
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Rescued from the Closet
2001
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
How I Met Your Mother
2005
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016
Family Guy
1999
Intimate Portrait
1993
Hercules
1998
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Trailblazer Honors
2014
Daddy's Girls
1994
Miami Vice
1984
The Simpsons
1989
Family Guy
1999
Saturday Night Live
1975
Smash
2012
BoJack Horseman
2014
Big Mouth
2017
Cheers
1982
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Ellen
1994
The Good Wife
2009
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
Tony Awards
1956