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Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein

Highest Rated: 100% Superstar in a Housedress (2004)

Lowest Rated: 0% Mulan II (2004)

Birthday: Jun 6, 1954

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA

One of America's first few openly gay major celebrities, actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein combined a semi-experimental, in-your-face approach with the nostalgia, the heart-tugging showmanship, and the conventional formats of the tearjerker, the drag revue, and the sitcom. In the process, he proved to be a key figure in promoting the idea that contemporary LGBT life could be a viable subject matter for contemporary drama distributed through fairly widespread venues.

Highest rated movies

100% Superstar in a Housedress
95% Bullets Over Broadway
89% Bros
77% Torch Song Trilogy
76% Hairspray Live!
70% Mrs. Doubtfire 68% Independence Day
64% Playing Mona Lisa

Photos

Harvey Fierstein The 68th Annual Tony Awards, Harvey Fierstein (L), Andy Karl (R), 06/08/2014, ©CBS TORCH SONG TRILOGY, Harvey Fierstein, Matthew Broderick, 1988, (c) New Line TORCH SONG TRILOGY, Harvey Fierstein (right), 1988, (c) New Line TORCH SONG TRILOGY, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein, Anne Bancroft, Brian Kerwin, 1988. ©New Line Cinema TORCH SONG TRILOGY, Harvey Fierstein, Matthew Broderick, 1988 The 68th Annual Tony Awards, from left: Cyndi Lauper, Daryl Roth, Harvey Fierstein, Hal Luftig, 'Season 1', ©CBS TORCH SONG TRILOGY, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein, 1988. TORCH SONG TRILOGY, Brian Kerwin, Harvey Fierstein, 1988. © NewLine Cinema TORCH SONG TRILOGY, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein, 1988 TORCH SONG TRILOGY, Harvey Fierstein, Matthew Broderick, 1988 TORCH SONG TRILOGY, Anne Bancroft, Harvey Fierstein, 1988. MRS. DOUBTFIRE, Harvey Fierstein, 1993, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. HAIRSPRAY LIVE!, L-R: SEAN HAYES, HARVEY FIERSTEIN, (AIRED DECEMBER 7, 2016). PH: JUSTIN LUBIN/©NBC HAIRSPRAY LIVE!, CENTER L-R: HARVEY FIERSTEIN, MARTIN SHORT, (AIRED DECEMBER 7, 2016). PH: COLLEEN HAYES/©NBC MRS. DOUBTFIRE, Harvey Fierstein, Scott Capurro, 1993, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. DR. JEKYLL AND MS. HYDE, Sean Young, Harvey Fierstein, 1995, (c)Savoy Pictures DEATH TO SMOOCHY, Danny De Vito, Harvey Fierstein, 2002 (c) Warner Brothers. . PLAYING MONA LISA, Brooke Langton, Harvey Fierstein, 2000, ©Buena Vista Pictures TORCH SONG TRILOGY, Harvey Fierstein, 1988
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
89% 90% Bros Unknown (Character) $11.6M 2022
98% 98% Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles Self $547.5K 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fiddler: Miracle of Miracles Self - 2019
64% 77% Animal Crackers Esmerelda (Voice) - 2017
76% 74% Hairspray Live! Edna Turnblad (Character),
Writer 		- 2016
No Score Yet 57% The Year Without a Santa Claus Heat Miser (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet From Shtetl To Swing: A Musical Odyssey Narrator - 2005
0% 43% Mulan II Yao (Voice) - 2004
100% 80% Superstar in a Housedress Unknown (Character) - 2004
35% 40% Duplex Kenneth (Character) $9.7M 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Our House Kenneth (Character) - 2003
42% 66% Death to Smoochy Merv Green (Character) $8.4M 2002
64% 59% Playing Mona Lisa Bennett (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 73% Common Ground Don (Character),
Writer 		- 2000
No Score Yet 82% Double Platinum Gary Millstein (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jump Dish Macense (Character) - 1999
57% 54% Safe Men Leo (Character) $36.7K 1998
86% 85% Mulan Yao (Voice) $120.6M 1998
25% 24% Kull the Conqueror Juba (Character) $6.1M 1997
68% 75% Independence Day Marty Gilbert (Character) $306.2M 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet White Lies Art (Character) - 1996
97% 89% The Celluloid Closet Self $1.4M 1995
14% 21% Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde Yves DuBois (Character) $2.5M 1995
95% 83% Bullets Over Broadway Sid Loomis (Character) $11.4M 1994
No Score Yet 24% The Harvest Bob Lakin (Character) - 1993
70% 77% Mrs. Doubtfire Frank (Character) $219.2M 1993
77% 91% Torch Song Trilogy Arnold Beckoff (Character) $4.9M 1988
No Score Yet 33% Apology The derelict (Character) - 1986
57% 50% Garbo Talks Bernie Whitlock (Character) - 1984
96% 94% The Times of Harvey Milk Narrator $13.6K 1984

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2022
No Score Yet 26% Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Guest 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Great Performances Guest 2020
89% 94% The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance The Gourmand (Voice) 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen Guest 2013 2018
No Score Yet 64% Family Guy Buster Keaton (Guest Voice) 2008 2015
No Score Yet 58% Saturday Night Live Unknown (Guest Star) 2014
93% 91% The Good Wife Judge Francis Flamm (Guest Star) 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wendy Williams Show Guest 2011
81% 88% Nurse Jackie John Decker (Guest Star) 2010
84% 84% How I Met Your Mother Lily's Smoking Voice (Guest Star) 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sesame Street Unknown (Guest Star),
Guest 		2004-2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ellen Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
50% No Score Yet Daddy's Girls Dennis Sinclair (Character) 1994
No Score Yet 89% Murder, She Wrote Stan Hatter (Guest Star) 1992
87% 95% Cheers Mark Newberger (Guest Star) 1992
85% 77% The Simpsons Karl (Guest Voice) 1990
71% 85% Miami Vice Benedict (Guest Star) 1986