Actor

Harvey Fierstein

1983–presentb. 1952ComedyDocumentaryDrama

Comic Visionary

Also wrote 9 screenplays ↗

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Known For

56 acting credits

as Yao (voice)

Mulan

as Yao (voice)

1998

Mulan

as Marty Gilbert

Independence Day

as Marty Gilbert

1996

Independence Day

Filmography

2023Commitment to LifeSelf (archive footage)2022BrosLouis6.7 2020Disarm HateNarrator1.0 2020Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of BroadwayPerformer 2019Fiddler: A Miracle of MiraclesSelf6.5 2018Animal CrackersEsmerelda (voice)6.3

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.

As Screenwriter

Full writer page ↗

2017Newsies 1988Torch Song Trilogy 2018Funny Girl 1988Tidy Endings 1999The Sissy Duckling 2016Hairspray Live!

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