Harvey Fierstein
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as Yao (voice) Mulan 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.
Filmography
Independence Day
as Marty Gilbert
Mulan
as Yao (voice)
Mrs. Doubtfire
as Frank
Mulan II
as Yao (voice)
Duplex
as Kenneth
Bullets Over Broadway
as Sid Loomis
Bros
as Louis
Death to Smoochy
as Merv Green
Animal Crackers
as Esmerelda (voice)
Hairspray Live!
as Edna Turnblad
Kull the Conqueror
as Juba
Foodfight!
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
The Times of Harvey Milk
as Narrator (voice)
The Celluloid Closet
as Self
Torch Song Trilogy
as Arnold Beckoff
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
as Yves DuBois
Safe Men
as Good Stuff Leo
Farce of the Penguins
as Sheila (voz)
Garbo Talks
as Bernie Whitlock
The Harvest
as Bob Lakin