Cast
Harvey Fierstein
Acting
Cast
Harvey Fierstein
Known for
Acting
Born
1952-06-06
From
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also known as Harvey Forbes Fierstein
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.
★7.9
MOVIE1998
Mulan
as Yao (voice)
★6.9
MOVIE1996
Independence Day
as Marty Gilbert
★7.2
MOVIE1993
Mrs. Doubtfire
as Frank
★6.5
MOVIE2004
Mulan II
as Yao (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE2022
Bros
as Louis
★6.1
MOVIE2003
Duplex
as Kenneth
★1.9
MOVIE2012
Foodfight!
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
★2.9
MOVIE1996
Everything Relative
as The Moyle
★6.4
MOVIE2018
Animal Crackers
as Esmerelda (voice)
★7.1
MOVIE1994
Bullets Over Broadway
as Sid Loomis
★5.9
MOVIE2002
Death to Smoochy
as Merv Green
MOVIE2023
Commitment to Life
as Self (archive footage)
★7.3
MOVIE2016
Hairspray Live!
as Edna Turnblad
★1.0
MOVIE2020
Disarm Hate
as Narrator
★5.0
MOVIE1997
Kull the Conqueror
as Juba
★7.2
MOVIE1996
The Celluloid Closet
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE1983
The Demon Murder Case
as The Demon (voice)
★5.5
MOVIE1998
Safe Men
as Good Stuff Leo
★4.7
MOVIE1995
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
as Yves DuBois
★4.2
MOVIE2006
Farce of the Penguins
as Sheila (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE2004
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1999
Double Platinum
as Gary Millstein
★5.1
MOVIE1999
The Sissy Duckling
as Elmer (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE2000
Playing Mona Lisa
as Bennett
★7.2
MOVIE2007
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE1996
The Making of 'Independence Day'
as Self
★4.5
MOVIE2017
The Fabulous Allan Carr
as Self (archive)
★7.3
MOVIE1988
Torch Song Trilogy
as Arnold Beckoff
★5.8
MOVIE2006
The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Heat Miser
★6.0
MOVIE1996
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
as Easter Bunny
★5.8
MOVIE1997
Three Little Pigs
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE1984
Garbo Talks
as Bernie Whitlock
★7.2
MOVIE2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Self - Host
★5.0
MOVIE2000
Common Ground
as Don
★4.8
MOVIE1993
The Harvest
as Bob Lakin
★6.5
MOVIE2001
Rescued from the Closet
as Self
MOVIE2002
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
as Self
★9.4
MOVIE2003
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
as Self
MOVIE2014
Russian Broadway Shut Down
MOVIE2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Host
MOVIE2001
One on One with Vito Russo
as Self (archive)
★5.1
MOVIE1986
Apology
as The derelict
★7.3
MOVIE1984
The Times of Harvey Milk
as Narrator (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE2019
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
as Self
MOVIE1988
MaMa's Pushcart
★3.5
MOVIE2004
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
as Self
★3.8
MOVIE1997
White Lies
as Art Hoarder
★7.6
MOVIE2004
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
as Self (uncredited)
★4.0
MOVIE1988
Tidy Endings
as Arthur
MOVIE2015
The Making of the Wiz Live!
as Self
MOVIE1994
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
as Self
★4.3
MOVIE1999
Jump
as Dish Macense
MOVIE1991
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
as Andrew
MOVIE2015
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
as Self (Archive)
MOVIE2007
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
as Self
MOVIE1990
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
as Self
MOVIE2020
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
as Performer
★8.0
MOVIE2004
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self (voice)
MOVIE1993
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
as Self