Harvey Fierstein
Born June 06, 1952 (Age: 73)
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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.
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.
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Filmography
Bros
2022
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as Louis
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Age: 70
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020
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as Performer
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Age: 68
Animal Crackers
2018
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as Esmerelda (voice)
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Age: 66
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
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as Self (Archive)
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Age: 63
Foodfight!
2012
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as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
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Age: 60
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
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as Self
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Age: 54
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
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as Self
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Age: 54
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
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as Self
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Age: 52
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004
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as Self
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Age: 51
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
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as Self (voice)
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Age: 51
Duplex
2003
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as Kenneth
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Age: 51
No Image
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002
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as Self
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Age: 50
Death to Smoochy
2002
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as Merv Green
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Age: 49
Rescued from the Closet
2001
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as Self
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Age: 48
Playing Mona Lisa
2000
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as Bennett
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Age: 47
Common Ground
2000
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as Don
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Age: 47
Safe Men
1998
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as Good Stuff Leo
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Age: 46
Mulan
1998
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as Yao (voice)
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Age: 46
Kull the Conqueror
1997
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as Juba
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Age: 45
White Lies
1997
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as Art Hoarder
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Age: 44
No Image
Three Little Pigs
1997
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as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
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Age: 44
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996
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as Easter Bunny
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Age: 44
Everything Relative
1996
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as The Moyle
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Age: 44
Independence Day
1996
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as Marty Gilbert
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Age: 44
The Celluloid Closet
1996
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as Self
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Age: 43
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
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as Sid Loomis
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Age: 42
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994
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as Self
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Age: 42
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
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as Frank
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Age: 41
The Harvest
1993
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as Bob Lakin
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Age: 41
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993
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as Self
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Age: 40
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991
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as Andrew
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Age: 39
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990
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as Self
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Age: 38
Torch Song Trilogy
1988
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as Arnold Beckoff
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Age: 36
Tidy Endings
1988
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as Arthur
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Age: 36
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
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as
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Age: 35