Harvey Fierstein
Known for
Acting
Born
June 6, 1952 (age 74)
Birthplace
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Best known work
The Simpsons
1989
Independence Day
1996
Mulan
1998
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
How I Met Your Mother
2005
Family Guy
1999
BoJack Horseman
2014
Mulan II
2004
Duplex
2003
Big Mouth
2017Filmography
2023
Commitment to Lifeas Self (archive footage)
2022
Brosas Louis
2020
2020
Disarm Hateas Narrator
2019
2019
2019
Kinky Boots: The MusicalMusical
2018
Funny GirlMusical, Writer
2018
Animal Crackersas Esmerelda (voice)
2017
2017
The Fabulous Allan Carras Self (archive footage)
2017
NewsiesMusical
2016
Hairspray Live!as Edna Turnblad, Teleplay
2016
2015
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfireas Self (Archive)
2015
The Wiz Live!Writer
2015
The Making of the Wiz Live!as Self
2014
2014
2014
2014
2012
Foodfight!as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
2012
2009
2009