Harvey Fierstein
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.133 |
| Birthday | 1954-06-06 |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Also Known As |
1997
White Lies
0/0
A museum worker pretends to be an artist in order to impress women. When an attractive assistant director of a SoHo art gallery overhears him, she off...
Watch Now
White Lies
2004
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2/1
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's birth, 150 leading artists of the stage, screen and music worlds deliver 150 of the Irish scribe...
Watch Now
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2022
Bros
6.7/512
Two emotionally unavailable men attempt a relationship.
Watch Now
Bros
1999
Jump
1.5/2
Friends try to dissuade a suicidal man from jumping off a ledge, but they are not much better off than he is.
Watch Now
Jump
1983
The Demon Murder Case
6/13
A young boy is taken over by demons who force him to commit murder.
Watch Now
The Demon Murder Case
1997
Three Little Pigs
5.8/2
A vegan wolf moves in with the Three Pigs in a parody of MTV's Real World.
Watch Now
Three Little Pigs
2004
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
7/1
Today there are more reasons than ever for families to explore and celebrate diversity. Our ever-expanding world is full of differences in abilities,...
Watch Now
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2006
The Year Without a Santa Claus
5.8/20
Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man helps him rediscover the meaning of the holidays.
Watch Now
The Year Without a Santa Claus
1994
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
0/0
Finished a quarter century after the earth-shaking protests that forever altered the public perception of LGBTQ people in America, Stonewall 25: Globa...
Watch Now
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1990
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
0/0
Novice writers from a writers workshop wrote the show's sketches.
Watch Now
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1993
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
0/0
On January 22, 1993 at the historic Castro Theater in San Francisco, Lily Tomlin, Robin Williams, Harvey Fierstein, Marga Gomez, and Lypsinka performe...
Watch Now
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
2019
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
6.5/12
The origin story behind one of Broadway's most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creative roots in early 1960s New York, when "tradition"...
Watch Now
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2017
Animal Crackers
6.2/194
A family must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a rundown circus from being taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington.
Watch Now
Animal Crackers
2016
Hairspray Live!
7.4/161
A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
Watch Now
Hairspray Live!
2015
The Making of the Wiz Live!
0/0
Go behind the curtain in The Land of Oz with NBC's "The Making of The Wiz Live!" The hour-long special will give an exclusive backstage look at this h...
Watch Now
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2012
Foodfight!
1.899/143
The evil Brand X joins a supermarket that becomes a city after closing time.
Watch Now
Foodfight!
2007
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
7.231/13
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway is an American documentary film, directed by Dori Berinstein, a Broadway Producer, Writer and Filmmaker. Berinstei...
Watch Now
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
0/0
WORDS AND MUSIC is the story of one of Broadway's iconic figures: the composer/lyricist of Hello, Dolly!, Mame and La Cage aux Folles. Jerry Herman an...
Watch Now
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2006
Farce of the Penguins
4.153/49
In this spoof of "March of the Penguins," nature footage of penguins near the South Pole gets a soundtrack of human voices. Carl and Jimmy, best frien...
Watch Now
Farce of the Penguins
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
0/0
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro...
Watch Now
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
7.2/4
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great m...
Watch Now
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2004
Mulan II
6.5/2389
Fa Mulan gets the surprise of her young life when her love, Captain Li Shang asks for her hand in marriage. Before the two can have their happily ever...
Watch Now
Mulan II
2004
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
3/4
Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her...
Watch Now
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2003
Duplex
6.1/1705
When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
Watch Now
Duplex
2003
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
9.4/5
Lifetime's "Intimate Portrait" series shines a spotlight on the Golden Girls -- Bea Arthur, Betty White, Estelle Getty and Rue McClanahan -- with a co...
Watch Now
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2002
Death to Smoochy
5.944/400
Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by s...
Watch Now
Death to Smoochy
2000
Playing Mona Lisa
5.75/10
A young pianist is looking for love in all the wrong places once her fiancee drops her. Maybe her flame will be rekindled both for the piano and a new...
Watch Now
Playing Mona Lisa
2000
Common Ground
4.7/17
This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy", a woman joins the Navy during the 1950's an...
Watch Now
Common Ground
1998
Safe Men
5.547/53
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the loca...
Watch Now
Safe Men
1998
Mulan
7.9/9843
To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the pro...
Watch Now
Mulan
1996
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
5.9/11
Can there be such a thing as too much Christmas? Find out... when a magical Christmas wish is granted and Elmo gets to see what the world would be lik...
Watch Now
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1997
Kull the Conqueror
5.163/141
A barbarian named Kull becomes ruler after defeating the old king in battle. In an effort to regain the throne, the former king's heirs resurrect Akiv...
Watch Now
Kull the Conqueror
1996
Everything Relative
1.8/3
Old college chums get together for a weekend reunion that is bound to open old wounds and perhaps heal them. New romances find a spark while old ones...
Watch Now
Everything Relative
1996
Independence Day
6.9/9715
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it...
Watch Now
Independence Day
1996
The Celluloid Closet
7.2/103
What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serv...
Watch Now
The Celluloid Closet
1995
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
4.7/52
A scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use modern technology to improve it. He ends up as an...
Watch Now
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1994
Bullets Over Broadway
7.1/628
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a...
Watch Now
Bullets Over Broadway
1993
Mrs. Doubtfire
7.188/6200
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his k...
Watch Now
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
The Harvest
5.2/16
A screenwriter is sent to Mexico to develop a story that can be used to wrap up a movie presently in production. Given a very short time allotment, th...
Watch Now
The Harvest
1988
Tidy Endings
1/1
A man, whose companion dies of AIDS, confronts his lover's ex-wife and the two end up building a friendship while coping with the emotional aftermath...
Watch Now
Tidy Endings
1988
Torch Song Trilogy
7.3/91
Arnold is a gay man working as a drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.
Watch Now
Torch Song Trilogy
1988
MaMa's Pushcart
0/0
With virtually no financial resources, Ellen Stewart created the La Mama theater in New York in 1961, where writers and actors such as Sam Shepard, El...
Watch Now
MaMa's Pushcart
1986
Apology
4.9/4
For her upcoming exhibition, "Apology," Lily, a New York conceptual artist, is designing a sound and sculpture installation inspired by the testimony...
Watch Now
Apology
1984
Garbo Talks
6.1/27
When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His incorrigible mother, Estelle, has one last wish:...
Watch Now
Garbo Talks
1984
The Times of Harvey Milk
7.3/110
Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassina...
Watch Now
The Times of Harvey Milk
1999
Double Platinum
8/15
The story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only child.
Watch Now
Double Platinum
1999
The Sissy Duckling
5.125/8
Elmer, a sensitive duckling whose schoolmates tease him. However, after his unusual talents help him save a life, the other members of the flock learn...
Watch Now
The Sissy Duckling
1996
The Making of 'Independence Day'
5.9/7
We take a look at various fields of development for the motion picture, Independence Day (1996). Jeff Goldblum is our guide through 'Area ID4' (a rip-...
Watch Now
The Making of 'Independence Day'
2020
Disarm Hate
1/1
Nine LGBTQs come together after the Pulse Massacre to join one man, a hairdresser and activist from New Jersey without political experience, as he bui...
Watch Now
Disarm Hate
2014
Russian Broadway Shut Down
0/0
Citing homosexual propaganda law, Russian government outlaws theatrical performances ; Russian Broadway community responds.
Watch Now
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2001
Rescued from the Closet
6/1
A collection of interviews recorded for the making of the 1995 documentary "The Celluloid Closet," on the subject of LGBT representation in film histo...
Watch Now
Rescued from the Closet
2002
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
0/0
A short documentary about the making of Danny Devito’s film Death to Smoochy.
Watch Now
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2020
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
0/0
You are invited to join recording artist and Broadway star Shoshana Bean and her cast of friends for a musical evening of Broadway tunes.
Watch Now