Person Details

Birthday: 1954-06-06 01:32:55

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Homepage:

Movie Involvements: 34

TV Involvements: 6


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Intimate Portrait
Average
5

Intimate Portrait

(1993) Self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Average
7

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

(1995) Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
Mulan
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8

Mulan

(1998) Yao (voice)
Tony Awards
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5

Tony Awards

(1956) Self - Winner
Independence Day
Average
7

Independence Day

(1996) Marty Gilbert
Smash
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7

Smash

(2012) Harvey Fierstein
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Average
8

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

(2019) skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
Trailblazer Honors
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8

Trailblazer Honors

(2014) Honoree

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2022 Lewis
2020 Narrator
2019 skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
Himself
2017 Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
Esmerelda (voice)
2016 Edna Turnblad
Self
2015 Himself
2014 Harvey Fierstein (voice)
Honoree
Self
N/A
2012 Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Harvey Fierstein
2007 Sheila (voice)
Self
Himself
2006 Heat Miser
Host
2005 Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
Host
2004 Self
Yao (voice)
Self
Self (voice)
2003 Kenneth
N/A
2002 Merv Green
2001 Self
2000 Bennett
Don
1999 Elmer (voice)
Gary Millstein
Dish Macense
Tracy (voice)
Buster Keaton (voice)
The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
1998 Argus Panoptes (voice)
Good Stuff Leo
Yao (voice)
1997 Juba
Art Hoarder
1996 Easter Bunny
The Moyle
Himself
Marty Gilbert
Self
1995 Yves DuBois
Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
1994 Sid Loomis
N/A
Dennis Sinclair
1993 Frank
Self
Bob Lakin
Self
1990 Self
1989 Karl (voice)
1988 Arnold Beckoff
Arthur
N/A
1986 The derelict
1984 Bernie Whitlock
Narrator (voice)
N/A
1983 The Demon (voice)
1956 Self - Winner
Year Character Movie/Tv

Writing


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