About
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
Commitment to Life2023 · Self (archive footage)
Bros2022 · Louis
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway2020 · Performer
Disarm Hate2020 · Narrator
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles2019 · Self
Animal Crackers2018 · Esmerelda (voice)
The Fabulous Allan Carr2017 · Self (archive)
Hairspray Live!2016 · Edna Turnblad
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire2015 · Self (Archive)
The Making of the Wiz Live!2015 · Self
Russian Broadway Shut Down2014
Foodfight!2012 · Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway2007 · Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman2007 · Self
The Year Without a Santa Claus2006 · Heat Miser
Farce of the Penguins2006 · Sheila (voice)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays2006 · Host
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards2005 · Self - Host
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde2004 · Self
Mulan II2004 · Yao (voice)