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Harvey Fierstein

Born 1952 · American actor and playwright

Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter, known for his distinctive gravelly voice. He gained notice for his theater work in Torch Song Trilogy, winning both the Tony Award for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play. He went on to win the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for La Cage aux Folles, then Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, a role he reprised for the Hairspray Live! television special.

Harvey Fierstein, in order

  1. 1984 Garbo Talks: acted · directed by Sidney Lumet · critics 57%, audiences 50% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
  2. 1986 Apology (TV movie): acted · directed by Robert Bierman
  3. 1988 Torch Song Trilogy: wrote, acted · directed by Paul Bogart
  4. 1993 Mrs. Doubtfire: acted · directed by Chris Columbus · critics 74%, audiences 77% · streaming on Disney+, Hulu, fuboTV
  5. 1993 The Harvest: acted · directed by David Marconi
  6. 1994 Bullets Over Broadway: acted · directed by Woody Allen · critics 95%, audiences 83% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Fandango at Home (free)
  7. 1994 Daddy's Girls (TV series): acted
  8. 1995 Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde: acted · directed by David Price
  9. 1995 The Celluloid Closet: acted · directed by Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein · critics 96%, audiences 89% · streaming on Roku Channel
  10. 1996 Independence Day: acted · directed by Roland Emmerich · critics 77%, audiences 75%
  11. 1997 Kull the Conqueror: acted · directed by John Nicolella
  12. 1998 Safe Men: acted · directed by John Hamburg · critics 53%, audiences 53%
  13. 1999 Double Platinum (TV movie): acted · directed by Robert Allan Ackerman
  14. 1999 Jump: acted · directed by Justin McCarthy
  15. 2000 Common Ground: wrote, acted · directed by Donna Deitch
  16. 2000 Playing Mona Lisa: acted · directed by Matthew Huffman
  17. 2002 Death to Smoochy: acted · directed by Danny DeVito · critics 41%, audiences 66% · streaming on Roku Channel, Hoopla, YouTube (free)
  18. 2003 Duplex: acted · directed by Danny DeVito
  19. 2007 Farce of the Penguins: acted · directed by Bob Saget
  20. 2009 How I Met Your Mother (TV series): acted · critics 85%, audiences 84% · streaming on Disney+, Hulu
  21. 2012 Foodfight!: acted · directed by Larry Kasanoff
  22. 2014 Russian Broadway Shut Down (short film): acted · directed by John Walton West
  23. 2016 Hairspray Live! (TV movie): wrote, acted · directed by Kenny Leon
  24. 2022 Bros: acted · directed by Nicholas Stoller · critics 88%, audiences 89% · streaming on Netflix