Harvey Fierstein
b. 1954 (age 72)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Actor
Soundtrack
Writer
Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6, 1952) is a U.S. actor and playwright, noted for the early (1982) distinction of winning Tony Awards for both writing and playing the lead role in his long-running play Torch Song Trilogy, about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family, as well as writing the award-winning book to the musical La Cage aux Folles. He has since become a champion for gay civil rights. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harvey Fierstein, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. Harvey is also the co-creator of the Tony Award Winning Broadway Musical, Kinky Boots, alongside famed musician Cyndi Lauper.
Known For
Filmography
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Pride of Stage and Screen
2022 Self
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★ 8.2
Late Night with Seth Meyers: Corrections
2021 Self
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★ 7.5
Disarm Hate
2020 Actor
Narrator
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★ 8.1
Kinky Boots: The Musical
2019 Writer
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★ 7.6
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019 Self
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★ 8.2
Newsies: The Broadway Musical
2017 Writer
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★ 7.0
Hairspray Live!
2016 Actor
Writer
Edna Turnblad
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2016 Logo Trailblazer Honors
2016 Self
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★ 7.1
The Wiz Live!
2015 Writer
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The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015 Self
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Spotlight on Broadway
2013 Self
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The 78th Annual Drama League Awards
2012 Self
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The 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards
2011 Self
Writer
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★ 3.7
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006 Actor
Heat Miser
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51st Annual Drama Desk Awards
2006 Self
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★ 6.3
50th Annual Drama Desk Awards
2005 Self
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★ 8.0
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004 Actor
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49th Annual Drama Desk Awards
2004 Self
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★ 5.9
Duplex
2003 Actor
Kenneth
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★ 6.3
100 Years of Hope and Humor
2003 Self
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★ 6.3
Death to Smoochy
2002 Actor
Merv Green
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★ 7.0
Broadway's Best
2002 Self
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★ 7.3
Common Ground
2000 Writer
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★ 5.8
Playing Mona Lisa
2000 Actor
Bennett
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★ 6.1
Double Platinum
1999 Actor
Gary Millstein
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★ 5.6
The Sissy Duckling
1999 Actor
Writer
Elmer
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X-Chromosome
1999 Actor
Mom
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★ 7.7
Mulan
1998 Actor
Yao
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★ 5.8
Safe Men
1998 Actor
Leo
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★ 4.9
Kull: The Conqueror
1997 Actor
Juba
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★ 4.7
White Lies
1997 Actor
Art Hoarder
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★ 7.2
The 3 Little Pigs
1997 Actor
The Big Bad Wolf
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★ 7.0
Independence Day
1996 Actor
Marty Gilbert
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★ 5.6
Everything Relative
1996 Actor
The Moyle
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★ 5.6
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996 Self
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★ 7.8
The Celluloid Closet
1995 Self
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★ 4.5
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995 Actor
Yves DuBois
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★ 6.3
Daddy's Girls
1994 Actor
Dennis Sinclair
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The 5th Annual GLAAD Media Awards
1994 Self
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The 8th Annual American Comedy Awards
1994 Self
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★ 7.1
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993 Actor
Frank Hillard
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★ 5.5
The Harvest
1993 Actor
Bob Lakin
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★ 6.9
In the Life
1992 Self
Actor
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Election Night Live 1992
1992 Self
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★ 5.8
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990 Actor
Eric
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The 10th Annual National CableACE Awards
1989 Self
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★ 7.8
Torch Song Trilogy
1988 Actor
Writer
Arnold
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★ 8.1
Tidy Endings
1988 Actor
Writer
Arthur
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Mama's Pushcart: Ellen Stewart and 25 Years of La MaMa E.T.C.
1988 Self
Actor
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★ 5.4
Apology
1986 Actor
The Derelict
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★ 8.2
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984 Actor
Narrator
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★ 6.4
Garbo Talks
1984 Actor
Bernie Whitlock
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Our Time
1983 Self