As Actor
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
6.5
Harvey Fierstein
Acting
Birth Date
June 6, 1952
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Complete Filmography
As Writer
Kinky Boots: The Musical
2019
7.9
As Actor
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
5.6
As Actor
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
7.0
As Actor
Duplex
2003
6.1
As Actor
Death to Smoochy
2002
5.9
As Actor
Rescued from the Closet
2001
6.0
As Actor
Playing Mona Lisa
2000
5.7
As Writer
Common Ground
2000
4.9
As Actor, As Writer
The Sissy Duckling
1999
5.1
As Actor
Double Platinum
1999
8.0
As Actor
Safe Men
1998
5.5
As Actor
Mulan
1998
7.9
As Actor
Kull the Conqueror
1997
5.1
As Actor
White Lies
1997
1.7
As Actor
Everything Relative
1996
1.8
As Actor
Independence Day
1996
6.9
As Actor
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995
4.7
As Actor
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
7.1
As Actor
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
7.2