Harvey Fierstein
Known for 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.
Filmography
Mulan
1998
as Yao (voice)
Independence Day
1996
as Marty Gilbert
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
as Frank
Duplex
2003
as Kenneth
Mulan II
2004
as Yao (voice)
Bros
2022
as Louis
Foodfight!
2012
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
as Sid Loomis
Safe Men
1998
as Good Stuff Leo
Animal Crackers
2018
as Esmerelda (voice)
Death to Smoochy
2002
as Merv Green
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995
as Yves DuBois
The Celluloid Closet
1996
as Self
Garbo Talks
1984
as Bernie Whitlock
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Host
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
as Self - Host
Hairspray Live!
2016
as Edna Turnblad
Farce of the Penguins
2006
as Sheila (voz)
Kull the Conqueror
1997
as Juba
Common Ground
2000
as Don