Harvey Fierstein
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1952-06-06 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also known As
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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.
Acting
1997
as Art Hoarder
2004
as Self
2022
as Louis
1999
as Dish Macense
1983
as The Demon (voice)
1997
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
2004
as Self (voice)
2006
as Heat Miser
1993
2003
as Kenneth
1998
as Yao (voice)
1997
as Juba
1996
as Marty Gilbert
2012
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
2006
as Sheila (voice)
2000
as Don
2005
2000
as Bennett
2016
as Edna Turnblad
2015
as Self
1996
as Easter Bunny
1996
as The Moyle
1996
as Self
2004
as Yao (voice)
1995
as Yves DuBois
2007
2007
1998
as Good Stuff Leo
1994
as Sid Loomis
1988
as Arnold Beckoff
2017
as Esmerelda (voice)
1984
as Bernie Whitlock
2006
2002
as Merv Green
1993
as Bob Lakin
1988
2019
1986
as The derelict
1993
as Frank
1984
as Narrator (voice)
1988
as Arthur
1999
as Gary Millstein
1999
as Elmer (voice)
1996
2020
as Narrator
2001
as Self
2020
1991
Production
2017
as Musical
1988
as Theatre Play
2018
as Musical
1988
as Teleplay
1988
as Theatre Play
1999
as Writer
2018
as Writer
2016
as Teleplay
2000
as Writer
1988
as Screenplay
2019
as Musical
2015
as Writer
2019
as Writer
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