Harvey Fierstein
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.
As actor 83
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Simpsons
1989
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Family Guy
1999
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Good Wife
2009
How I Met Your Mother
2005
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Cheers
1982
Miami Vice
1984
BoJack Horseman
2014
Tony Awards
1956
Big Mouth
2017
Intimate Portrait
1993
Nurse Jackie
2009
Ellen
1994
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
Hercules
1998
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016
Mulan
1998
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Smash
2012
Independence Day
1996
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
Mulan II
2004
Daddy's Girls
1994
Trailblazer Honors
2014
Duplex
2003
Bros
2022
Animal Crackers
2018
Death to Smoochy
2002
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
Farce of the Penguins
2006
Foodfight!
2012
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
Kull the Conqueror
1997
Safe Men
1998
The Celluloid Closet
1996
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
Torch Song Trilogy
1988
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
2004
Commitment to Life
2023
Hairspray Live!
2016
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
Rescued from the Closet
2001
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996
The Demon Murder Case
1983
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996
Double Platinum
1999
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015
Garbo Talks
1984
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004
Playing Mona Lisa
2000
Everything Relative
1996
The Sissy Duckling
1999
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990
Common Ground
2000
The Harvest
1993
Apology
1986
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994
White Lies
1997
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
Jump
1999
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993
Disarm Hate
2020
One on One with Vito Russo
2001
Tidy Endings
1988
Three Little Pigs
1997
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
