Harvey Fierstein
Birthday: 1952-06-06
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned
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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2022-09-30 | Bros | Louis |
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2020-07-13 | Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway | Performer |
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2017-06-23 | Animal Crackers | Esmerelda (voice) |
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2016-12-07 | Hairspray Live! | Edna Turnblad |
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2014-01-23 | Russian Broadway Shut Down | |
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2012-06-15 | Foodfight! | Fat Cat Burglar (voice) |
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2006-12-11 | The Year Without a Santa Claus | Heat Miser |
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2006-12-01 | Farce of the Penguins | Sheila (voice) |
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2006-05-02 | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Host |
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2004-11-03 | Mulan II | Yao (voice) |
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2003-09-26 | Duplex | Kenneth |
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2002-03-29 | Death to Smoochy | Merv Green |
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2000-05-01 | Playing Mona Lisa | Bennett |
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2000-01-29 | Common Ground | Don |
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1999-09-14 | The Sissy Duckling | Elmer (voice) |
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1999-05-16 | Double Platinum | Gary Millstein |
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1999-04-17 | Jump | Dish Macense |
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1998-08-07 | Safe Men | Good Stuff Leo |
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1998-06-18 | Mulan | Yao (voice) |
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1997-08-29 | Kull the Conqueror | Juba |
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1997-04-01 | White Lies | Art Hoarder |
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1997-01-01 | Three Little Pigs | The Big Bad Wolf (voice) |
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1996-12-24 | Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas | Easter Bunny |
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1996-09-13 | Everything Relative | The Moyle |
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1996-06-25 | Independence Day | Marty Gilbert |
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1995-08-25 | Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde | Yves DuBois |
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1994-10-14 | Bullets Over Broadway | Sid Loomis |
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1994-09-23 | Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest | |
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1993-11-24 | Mrs. Doubtfire | Frank |
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1993-11-05 | The Harvest | Bob Lakin |
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1991-09-18 | In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story | Andrew |
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1988-12-14 | Torch Song Trilogy | Arnold Beckoff |
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1988-08-14 | Tidy Endings | Arthur |
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1988-01-01 | MaMa's Pushcart | |
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1986-07-27 | Apology | The derelict |
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1984-10-12 | Garbo Talks | Bernie Whitlock |
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1983-03-06 | The Demon Murder Case | The Demon (voice) |