Person Details
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
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Movie Involvements: 37
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
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
(1995) Mrs. Leaperman (voice)Tony Awards
(1956) Self - WinnerMulan
(1998) Yao (voice)Intimate Portrait
(1993) SelfIndependence Day
(1996) Marty GilbertSmash
(2012) Harvey FiersteinThe Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
(2019) skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)Kull the Conqueror
(1997) JubaActing
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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2022 | Louis | |
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 | ||
2009 | Self - Guest | |
2007 | Sheila (voice) | |
Self | ||
Himself | ||
2006 | Heat Miser | |
Host | ||
2005 | Lily's Smoking Voice (voice) | |
Self - Host | ||
2004 | Self | |
Yao (voice) | ||
Self | ||
Self (voice) | ||
2003 | Kenneth | |
Self | ||
2002 | Merv Green | |
2001 | Self | |
2000 | Bennett | |
Don | ||
1999 | Elmer (voice) | |
Gary Millstein | ||
Dish Macense | ||
Tracy (voice) | ||
Buster Keaton (voice) | ||
1998 | Argus Panoptes (voice) | |
Good Stuff Leo | ||
Yao (voice) | ||
1997 | Juba | |
Art Hoarder | ||
1996 | Easter Bunny | |
The Moyle | ||
Self | ||
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) | |
1975 | Self - Cameo (uncredited) | |
1956 | Self - Winner | |
The Big Bad Wolf (voice) | ||
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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2019 | Musical | |
2018 | Musical | |
Writer | ||
2017 | Musical | |
2016 | Teleplay | |
2015 | Writer | |
2000 | Writer | |
1999 | Writer | |
1988 | Screenplay | |
Theatre Play | ||
Theatre Play | ||
Teleplay | ||
Year | Role | Movie/Tv |