Harvey Fierstein
Actor
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
Independence Day
as Marty Gilbert 1996
Mrs. Doubtfire
as Frank 1993
Mulan II
as Yao (voice) 2004
Duplex
as Kenneth 2003
Bullets Over Broadway
as Sid Loomis 1994
Bros
as Louis 2022
Death to Smoochy
as Merv Green 2002
Animal Crackers
as Esmerelda (voice) 2017
Hairspray Live!
as Edna Turnblad 2016
Kull the Conqueror
as Juba 1997
Foodfight!
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice) 2012
The Times of Harvey Milk
as Narrator (voice) 1984
The Celluloid Closet
as Self 1996
Torch Song Trilogy
as Arnold Beckoff 1988
Safe Men
as Good Stuff Leo 1998
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
as Yves DuBois 1995