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 & recognition
- VH1 Trailblazer Honors · 2016
- Tony Award — Best Actor in a Musical · 2003
- Tony Award — Best Book of a Musical · 1984
- Theatre World Award · 1983
- Tony Award — Best Actor in a Play · 1983
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- Drama Desk Award — Outstanding Play
- Drama Desk Award — Outstanding Actor in a Musical
- Drama Desk Award — Outstanding Actor in a Play
- Hull-Warriner Award
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Tony Award — Best Play · 2014 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Book of a Musical · 2013 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Book of a Musical · 2012 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
BoJack Horseman
How I Met Your Mother
Funny Girl
Newsies: The Broadway Musical
The Simpsons
Mulan
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Kinky Boots: The Musical
The Larry Sanders Show
Big Mouth
The Good Wife
Cheers
Miami Vice
Murder, She Wrote
Family Guy
Hairspray Live!
Torch Song Trilogy
The Times of Harvey Milk
The Celluloid Closet
Mrs. Doubtfire
Nurse Jackie
Bullets Over Broadway
The Wiz Live!
Hercules
Independence Day
Saturday Night Live
Bros
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Mulan II
Smash
Animal Crackers
Garbo Talks
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Duplex
Ellen
Playing Mona Lisa
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Death to Smoochy
Safe Men
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Sissy Duckling
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Kull: The Conqueror
The Fabulous Allan Carr
White Lies
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Everything Relative
Foodfight!
Commitment to Life