🎬 Movies Mates PEOPLE
Harvey Fierstein
Acting
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.
BODY OF WORK
Harvey Fierstein's Filmography
Select any movie to open its full Movies Mates details page.
Commitment to Life
as Self (archive footage)
Bros
as Louis
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
as Performer
Disarm Hate
as Narrator
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
as Self
Animal Crackers
as Esmerelda (voice)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
as Self (archive footage)
Hairspray Live!
as Edna Turnblad
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
as Self (Archive)
The Making of the Wiz Live!
as Self
Russian Broadway Shut Down
Foodfight!
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
as Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
as Self
The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Heat Miser
Farce of the Penguins
as Sheila (voice)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Host
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Self - Host
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
as Self
Mulan II
as Yao (voice)
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
as Self
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
as Self (uncredited)
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self (voice)
Duplex
as Kenneth
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
as Self
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
as Self
Death to Smoochy
as Merv Green
Rescued from the Closet
as Self
One on One with Vito Russo
as Self (archive)
Playing Mona Lisa
as Bennett
Common Ground
as Don
The Sissy Duckling
as Elmer (voice)
Double Platinum
as Gary Millstein
Jump
as Dish Macense
Safe Men
as Good Stuff Leo
Mulan
as Yao (voice)
Kull the Conqueror
as Juba
White Lies
as Art Hoarder
No Poster
Three Little Pigs
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
as Easter Bunny
Everything Relative
as The Moyle
Independence Day
as Marty Gilbert
The Making of 'Independence Day'
as Self
The Celluloid Closet
as Self
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
as Yves DuBois
Bullets Over Broadway
as Sid Loomis
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
as Self
Mrs. Doubtfire
as Frank
The Harvest
as Bob Lakin
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
as Self
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
as Andrew
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
as Self
Torch Song Trilogy
as Arnold Beckoff
Tidy Endings
as Arthur
MaMa's Pushcart
Apology
as The derelict
Garbo Talks
as Bernie Whitlock
The Times of Harvey Milk
as Narrator (voice)
The Demon Murder Case
as The Demon (voice)