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Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein’s screen credits include Yao (voice) in Mulan, Marty Gilbert in Independence Day, and Kenneth in Duplex.
Born June 6, 1952 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA3 movies on MoviHero
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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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- 2023Commitment to LifeSelf (archive footage)
- 2022BrosLouis
- 2020Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of BroadwayPerformer
- 2020Disarm HateNarrator
- 2019Fiddler: A Miracle of MiraclesSelf
- 2018Funny GirlWriter
- 2018Animal CrackersEsmerelda (voice)
- 2017The Fabulous Allan CarrSelf (archive footage)
- 2016Hairspray Live!Edna Turnblad
- 2015Another Take on… Mrs. DoubtfireSelf (Archive)
- 2015The Wiz Live!Writer
- 2015The Making of the Wiz Live!Self
- 2014Russian Broadway Shut DownActor
- 2012Foodfight!Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
- 2007ShowBusiness: The Road to BroadwaySelf
- 2007Words and Music by Jerry HermanSelf
- 2006The Year Without a Santa ClausHeat Miser
- 2006Farce of the PenguinsSheila (voice)
- 2006The Best of The Tony Awards: The PlaysHost
- 2005Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony AwardsSelf - Host
- 2004Happy Birthday Oscar WildeSelf
- 2004Mulan IIYao (voice)
- 2004Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie CurtisSelf
- 2004Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!Self (uncredited)
- 2004Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of MeSelf (voice)
- 2003The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait SeriesSelf
- 2002Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes DocumentarySelf
- 2002Death to SmoochyMerv Green
- 2001One on One with Vito RussoSelf (archive)
- 2001Rescued from the ClosetSelf
- 2000Playing Mona LisaBennett
- 2000Common GroundWriter · Don
- 1999The Sissy DucklingWriter · Elmer (voice)
- 1999Double PlatinumGary Millstein
- 1999JumpDish Macense
- 1998Safe MenGood Stuff Leo
- 1997Kull the ConquerorJuba
- 1997White LiesArt Hoarder
- 1997Three Little PigsThe Big Bad Wolf (voice)
- 1996Sesame Street: Elmo Saves ChristmasEaster Bunny
- 1996Everything RelativeThe Moyle
- 1996The Making of 'Independence Day'Self
- 1996The Celluloid ClosetSelf
- 1995Dr. Jekyll and Ms. HydeYves DuBois
- 1994Bullets Over BroadwaySid Loomis
- 1994Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and ProtestSelf
- 1993Mrs. DoubtfireFrank
- 1993The HarvestBob Lakin
- 1993An Evening with Lily Tomlin and FriendsSelf
- 1991In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS StoryAndrew
- 1990The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?Self
- 1988Torch Song TrilogyWriter · Arnold Beckoff
- 1988Tidy EndingsArthur
- 1988MaMa's PushcartActor
- 1986ApologyThe derelict
- 1984Garbo TalksBernie Whitlock
- 1984The Times of Harvey MilkNarrator (voice)
- 1983The Demon Murder CaseThe Demon (voice)
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