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