Harvey Fierstein

Acting

Born: 1952-06-06

From: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Popularity: 1.1

Also Known As

Harvey Forbes Fierstein

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.

Awards & Nominations10 won · 3 nominated

🏆 Won

VH1 Trailblazer Honors

2016

Nominated

Tony Award for Best Play

Casa Valentina

2014

Nominated

Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical

Kinky Boots

2013

Nominated

Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical

Newsies

2012

🏆 Won

Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical

2003

🏆 Won

Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical

La Cage aux Folles

1984

🏆 Won

Theatre World Award

1983

🏆 Won

Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play

1983

🏆 Won

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play

🏆 Won

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical

🏆 Won

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play

🏆 Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

🏆 Won

Hull-Warriner Award

Acting80 titles

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Series

Harvey Fierstein

Also Known As

Biography

Awards & Nominations10 won · 3 nominated

Acting80 titles

Daddy's Girls

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

BoJack Horseman

How I Met Your Mother

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

Double Platinum

The Simpsons

Mulan

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

The Larry Sanders Show

Big Mouth

Cheers

The Good Wife

Trailblazer Honors

Miami Vice

Murder, She Wrote

Family Guy

Torch Song Trilogy

Hairspray Live!

The Times of Harvey Milk

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

Mrs. Doubtfire

The Celluloid Closet

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

Bullets Over Broadway

Nurse Jackie

Independence Day

Hercules

Saturday Night Live

Bros

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

Mulan II

Rescued from the Closet

Smash

Animal Crackers

Garbo Talks

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

The Demon Murder Case

Duplex

The Making of 'Independence Day'

Ellen

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

Playing Mona Lisa

Death to Smoochy

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

The Year Without a Santa Claus

Safe Men

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Apology

The Sissy Duckling

Common Ground

Kull the Conqueror

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Harvest

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

The Fabulous Allan Carr

Intimate Portrait

Jump

Farce of the Penguins

Tidy Endings

White Lies

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

Everything Relative

Foodfight!

Disarm Hate

Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest

The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

MaMa's Pushcart

Words and Music by Jerry Herman

The Making of the Wiz Live!

Russian Broadway Shut Down

Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary