Harvey Fierstein

Born: 1952-06-06, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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

• The Simpsons (1989)
• Family Guy (1999)
• The Good Wife (2009)
• How I Met Your Mother (2005)
• BoJack Horseman (2014)
• Murder, She Wrote (1984)
• Cheers (1982)
• Big Mouth (2017)
• The Larry Sanders Show (1992)
• Nurse Jackie (2009)
• Ellen (1994)
• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019)
• Mulan (1998)
• Smash (2012)
• Independence Day (1996)
• Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
• Mulan II (2004)
• Duplex (2003)
• Death to Smoochy (2002)
• Bros (2022)
• Safe Men (1998)
• Animal Crackers (2018)
• Foodfight! (2012)
• Everything Relative (1996)
• Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
• Kull the Conqueror (1997)
• Hairspray Live! (2016)
• Disarm Hate (2020)
• Playing Mona Lisa (2000)
• Double Platinum (1999)