Harvey Fierstein
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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
Credits
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
as Frank
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Mulan (1998)
as Yao (voice)
Independence Day (1996)
as Marty Gilbert
Mulan II (2004)
as Yao (voice)
Duplex (2003)
as Kenneth
Foodfight! (2012)
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Bros (2022)
as Louis
Everything Relative (1996)
as The Moyle
Death to Smoochy (2002)
as Merv Green
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
as Sid Loomis
Kull the Conqueror (1997)
as Juba
Animal Crackers (2018)
as Esmerelda (voice)
Hairspray Live! (2016)
as Edna Turnblad
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)
as Yves DuBois
Farce of the Penguins (2006)
as Sheila (voice)
Safe Men (1998)
as Good Stuff Leo
Disarm Hate (2020)
as Narrator
The Celluloid Closet (1996)
as Self
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)
as Self
The Demon Murder Case (1983)
as The Demon (voice)
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
as Arnold Beckoff
The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006)
as Heat Miser
Commitment to Life (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Double Platinum (1999)
as Gary Millstein
Playing Mona Lisa (2000)
as Bennett
The Sissy Duckling (1999)
as Elmer (voice)
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde (2004)
as Self
Three Little Pigs (1997)
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
The Making of 'Independence Day' (1996)
as Self
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
as Narrator (voice)
Garbo Talks (1984)
as Bernie Whitlock
Apology (1986)
as The derelict
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards (2005)
as Self - Host
Rescued from the Closet (2001)
as Self
Common Ground (2000)
as Don
The Harvest (1993)
as Bob Lakin
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas (1996)
as Easter Bunny
The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
as Self (archive)
Russian Broadway Shut Down (2014)
Actor
White Lies (1997)
as Art Hoarder
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)
as Host
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019)
as Self
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest (1994)
as Self
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series (2003)
as Self
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis (2004)
as Self
One on One with Vito Russo (2001)
as Self (archive)
The Making of the Wiz Live! (2015)
as Self
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary (2002)
as Self
MaMa's Pushcart (1988)
Actor
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? (1990)
as Self
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! (2004)
as Self (uncredited)
Jump (1999)
as Dish Macense
Tidy Endings (1988)
as Arthur
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire (2015)
as Self (Archive)
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (2004)
as Self (voice)
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story (1991)
as Andrew
Words and Music by Jerry Herman (2007)
as Self
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway (2020)
as Performer
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends (1993)
as Self