Biography
Harvey Fierstein is an American actor, dramatist, and screenwriter, is recognized for his characteristic gravelly voice. He received two Tony Awards for his performances in Torch Song Trilogy, Hairspray, Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day, Mulan, and Mulan II.
Age
He is 69 years old as of 6 June 2023. He was born in 1954 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. His real name is Harvey Forbes Fierstein.
Family – Education
Fierstein was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, as the son of school librarian Jacqueline Harriet (née Gilbert) and handkerchief manufacturer Irving Fierstein. Fierstein has a brother named Ronald Fierstein. He graduated from the High School of Art and Design and earned a BFA from Pratt Institute in 1973.Fierstein is Jewish. In 2005, he stated that, while he does not believe in God, he prays three to four times per day.
Wife
Fierstein is gay in the open. From 1987 till 1992, he supposedly dated journalist Ted Casablanca.
Hairspray
Fierstein’s Broadway credits include playing the mother, Edna Turnblad, in Hairspray (2002), for which he received a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. Fierstein then penned the teleplay and starred in Hairspray Live!, which aired on NBC in 2016 alongside Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson, Kristin Chenoweth, and Martin Short. The interview also mentioned his ease in playing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof and Edna Turnblad in Hairspray.
The musical premiered in Seattle in 2002 before moving to Broadway later that year. Hairspray won eight Tony Awards in 2003, including one for Best Musical, out of thirteen nominations. It played for 2,642 performances before closing on January 4, 2009. Hairspray has also had national tours, a West End staging, various foreign productions, and was converted into a 2007 musical film. The London production was nominated for an unprecedented eleven Laurence Olivier Awards, winning four, including Best New Musical.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $20 million.
Books
Fierstein also authored the book for La Cage aux Folles (1983), which won another Tony Award, this time for Best Book of a Musical, and received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Book. Fierstein voiced Elmer in the 1999 HBO special based on his children’s book The Sissy Duckling, which won the Humanitas Prize for Children’s Animation.
Fierstein penned the book for the musical A Catered Affair, which he also starred in. The book for the theatrical musical Newsies was written by Fierstein, Alan Menken (music), and Jack Feldman (lyrics). The musical premiered on Broadway in March 2012. Fierstein was nominated for the Tony Award for Book of a Musical. Fierstein was nominated for a Tony Award for Book of a Musical. Fierstein created the text for a stage musical adaptation of the film Kinky Boots, which featured music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper. Fierstein’s book, I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir, was published on March 1, 2022, and soon became a New York Times bestseller.
Career
As one of the principal transparently gay big names in the US, Fierstein helped make gay and lesbian life into a feasible subject for contemporary show “without any expressions of remorse and no climactic suicides”. Fierstein has created commentaries for The New York Times and the PBS series In the Life. Fierstein started working in the theater as an establishing individual from The Display Players of Park Slant prior to being projected in Andy Warhol’s just play, Pork. Fierstein’s other early jobs included “a drag queen in his own Flatbush Tosca…a 300-year-elderly person, Lillian Russell, and 26 different parts in Ronald Tavel’s My Hatchling Lived on Amboy Road”. Fierstein likewise played out his own drag routine in Greenwich Town, including a pantomime of Ethel Merman singing “You Can’t Get a Man With a Firearm”.
Fierstein is most popular for the play and film Light Melody Set of three, which he composed and featured in both off-Broadway (with a youthful Matthew Broderick) and on Broadway (with Estelle Getty and Fisher Stevens). The 1982 Broadway creation won him two Tony Grants, for Best Play and Best Entertainer in a Play; two Show Work area Grants, for Remarkable New Play and Extraordinary Entertainer in a Play; and the Entertainment business World Honor. Fierstein is the main straightforwardly gay entertainer to win a Tony Grant for Best Entertainer in a Play. The film variation of Light Melody Set of three acquired him a Free Soul Grant selection as Best Male Lead.
Fierstein portrayed the narrative The Hours of Harvey Milk (1984), for which he won a News and Narrative Emmy Grant. Fierstein’s playwriting credits incorporate Spookhouse (1984), Safe Sex (1987), and Fail to remember Him (1988). Legs Jewel, his 1988 joint effort with Peter Allen, was a basic and business disappointment, shutting after 72 reviews and 64 exhibitions, yet the melodies live on in Peter Allen’s true to life melodic, The Kid from Oz.
Fierstein was adulated for his 1990 job as the voice of Karl, Homer Simpson’s aide, in the “Simpson and Delilah” episode of The Simpsons. Fierstein depicted Imprint Newberger in Cheers, getting an Emmy Grant selection for Remarkable Supporting Entertainer in a Satire Series in 1992 for his presentation. In 1993, Fierstein co-featured with Mara Wilson, Lisa Jakub, Matthew Lawrence, Sally Field, Penetrate Brosnan, and Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire.
In 1994, Fierstein turned into the primary transparently gay entertainer to play a key gay person in a TV series when he showed up as style planner Dennis Sinclair in the fleeting CBS series Daddy’s Young ladies. Fierstein voiced the job of Yao in Disney’s enlivened component Mulan, a job he later repeated for the computer game Realm Hearts II and the direct-to-DVD continuation Mulan II. Fierstein got back to the theater when he repeated the job of Tevye, supplanting a harmed Chaim Topol, in the public visit through Fiddler on the Rooftop beginning in December 2009.
On February 15, 2011, Fierstein supplanted Douglas Hodge as Albin/Zaza in the Broadway recovery of La Enclosure aux Folles. The show shut on May 1, 2011, subsequent to playing 433 exhibitions and 15 reviews. Fierstein’s play Casa Valentina was created on Broadway by the Manhattan Theater Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. The play opened in April 2014. It was coordinated by Joe Mantello, with a cast that included Patrick Page, John Cullum, and Horse Winningham.
Fierstein composed the teleplay for the December 3, 2015, NBC Transmission of The Wiz Live!, highlighting Stephanie Factories as Auntie Em, Sovereign Latifah as The Wiz, and David Alan Grier as the Lion. The teleplay is a variation of The Wiz, which ran on Broadway from October 1974 until January 1979.
Fierstein then composed the teleplay for, and featured in, the 2016 NBC Transmission of Hairspray Live! with Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson, Kristin Chenoweth, and Martin Short.
In April 2016, Fierstein, alongside his Unusual Boots colleague Cyndi Lauper, was respected with a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Distinction. Fierstein composed and featured in Bella, an independent speech play about New York Senator Bella Abzug. It debuted at Manhattan Theater Club’s Stage One at Downtown area on October 1, 2019, coordinated by Kimberly Senior.
Movies
♦ 2022 – Bros
♦ 2020 – Disarm Hate
♦ 2017 – Animal Crackers
♦ 2014 – Russian Broadway Shut Down
♦ 2012 – Foodfight!
♦ 2006 – Farce of the Penguins
♦ 2004 – Mulan II
♦ 2003 – Duplex
♦ 2002 – Death to Smoochy
♦ 2000 – Playing Mona Lisa
♦ 1999 – Jump
♦ 1998 – Mulan
♦ 1998 – Safe Men
♦ 1997 – White Lies
♦ 1997 – Kull the Conqueror
♦ 1997 – Three Little Pigs
TV Shows
♦ 2019 – The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
♦ 2018 – Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
♦ 2018–20 – Big Mouth
♦ 2017 – BoJack Horseman
♦ 2016 – Hairspray Live!
♦ 2015 – Family Guy
♦ 2015 – The Wiz Live!
♦ 2014 – Saturday Night Live
♦ 2013 – Smash
♦ 2013 – Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
♦ 2012 – Submissions Only
♦ 2011 – The Good Wife
♦ 2010 – Nurse Jackie
♦ 2009 – How I Met Your Mother
♦ 2008 – Family Guy
♦ 2006 – The Year Without a Santa Claus
♦ 2004 – Biography
♦ 2004–07 – Sesame Street