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Harvey Fiersteinborn 1954

usually

Actor

Popularity

2.7

Famous

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.

Credits

Bros

2022

Comedy • Romance

as Louis

6.7(518)

3.1

Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway

2020

as Performer

0(0)

0.2

Disarm Hate

2020

as Narrator

1(1)

0.1

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

2019

Documentary

as Himself

6.5(12)

0.7

Animal Crackers

2017

Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family

as Esmerelda (voice)

6.2(196)

Hairspray Live!

2016

Comedy • Drama • Romance • TV Movie

as Edna Turnblad

7.4(163)

0.8

The Making of the Wiz Live!

2015

Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.2

Russian Broadway Shut Down

2014

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0.3

Foodfight!

2012

Action • Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family • War

as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)

1.9(144)

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

2007

Documentary

as Self

7.2(13)

0.3

Words and Music by Jerry Herman

2007

Documentary • Music

as Self

0(0)

0.1

The Year Without a Santa Claus

2006

Comedy • Family • TV Movie

as Heat Miser

5.8(20)

0.3

Farce of the Penguins

2006

Comedy • Documentary • Romance

as Sheila (voice)

4.1(50)

0.6

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006

Documentary

as Host

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0.2

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

2005

Documentary • Music

as Self - Host

7.2(4)

0.2

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

2004

Documentary • History • TV Movie

as Self

2(1)

0.4

Mulan II

2004

Action • Animation • Comedy • Family

as Yao (voice)

6.5(2,411)

Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

2004

Documentary

as Self

3(4)

0.5

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

2004

Animation • Documentary • Family

as Self (voice)

7(2)

0.1

Duplex

2003

Comedy

as Kenneth

6.1(1,712)

2.3

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

2003

Documentary

as Self

9.4(5)

0.3

Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary

2002

Comedy • Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.1

Death to Smoochy

2002

Comedy • Crime • Drama • Thriller

as Merv Green

5.9(404)

Rescued from the Closet

2001

Documentary

as Self

6(1)

0.5

Playing Mona Lisa

2000

Comedy

as Bennett

5.8(11)

0.5

Common Ground

2000

Drama • TV Movie

as Don

4.7(17)

0.5

The Sissy Duckling

1999

Animation • Family • TV Movie

as Elmer (voice)

5.1(8)

0.4

Double Platinum

1999

Drama • Music • TV Movie

as Gary Millstein

8(15)

0.6

Jump

1999

Comedy • Drama

as Dish Macense

1.5(2)

0.6

Safe Men

1998

Comedy • Crime

as Good Stuff Leo

5.5(53)

0.6

Mulan

1998

Adventure • Animation • Family

as Yao (voice)

7.9(9,924)

18.1

Kull the Conqueror

1997

Action • Adventure • Fantasy

as Juba

5.2(142)

White Lies

1997

Comedy • Romance

as Art Hoarder

0(0)

0.7

Three Little Pigs

1997

Animation

as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)

5.8(2)

0.1

Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

1996

Adventure • Comedy • Family • Fantasy • Music • TV Movie

as Easter Bunny

5.9(11)

0.4

Everything Relative

1996

Drama

as The Moyle

1.8(3)

0.2

The Making of 'Independence Day'

1996

Action • Documentary • Science Fiction

as Self

5.9(7)

0.4

Independence Day

1996

Action • Adventure • Science Fiction

as Marty Gilbert

6.9(9,792)

9.9

The Celluloid Closet

1996

Documentary • History

as Self

7.2(103)

0.7

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

1995

Comedy • Horror • Science Fiction

as Yves DuBois

4.7(52)

0.7

Bullets Over Broadway

1994

Comedy • Crime

as Sid Loomis

7.1(633)

Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest

1994

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0.4

Mrs. Doubtfire

1993

Comedy • Drama • Family

as Frank

7.2(6,254)

8.2

The Harvest

1993

Mystery • Thriller

as Bob Lakin

5.2(16)

0.4

An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends

1993

Comedy • Documentary • TV Movie

as Self

0(0)

0.1

The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

1990

Comedy

as Self

0(0)

0.1

Torch Song Trilogy

1988

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Arnold Beckoff

7.4(94)

0.7

Tidy Endings

1988

Drama • TV Movie

as Arthur

1(1)

0.1

MaMa's Pushcart

1988

0(0)

0.1

Apology

1986

Horror • TV Movie • Thriller

as The derelict

4.9(4)

0.7

Garbo Talks

1984

Comedy • Drama

as Bernie Whitlock

6.1(28)

0.4

The Times of Harvey Milk

1984

Documentary

as Narrator (voice)

7.3(110)

0.7

The Demon Murder Case

1983

Horror • TV Movie

as The Demon (voice)

6.3(14)

0.3