Harvey Fierstein - Famous Actor

Harvey Fierstein Net Worth

$20,000,000

Harvey Fierstein’s net worth is estimated to be around $20 million. Known for his incredible talent in both theater and film, he has won multiple Tony Awards and accolades for his exceptional writing and acting skills.

Key facts:

  • Harvey Fierstein is an American actor and playwright best known in the theater world.
  • Fierstein wrote and starred in 'Torch Song Trilogy,' which won Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play.
  • He won his second Tony Award for writing the book of the musical 'La Cage aux Folles.'
  • Fierstein played mother Edna Turnblad in the musical 'Hairspray,' for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
  • He adapted the 2005 British film 'Kinky Boots' into a musical, which earned six Tony Awards among 13 nominations.

Basic Information About Harvey Fierstein

CategoryCelebrities β€Ί Actors
ProfessionsActor, Playwright, Screenwriter, Voice Actor
Net worth$20,000,000
Date of birth1954-06-06 (70 years old)
Place of birthBrooklyn
NationalityUnited States of America
Curiosities and TrademarksGruff yet smooth voice
Beard
GenderMale
Height6 ft 2 in (1.89 m)
Social Mediaβ†—οΈŽ Wikipedia β†—οΈŽ IMDb

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Harvey Fierstein awards

Award Name State Movie / Series Name Year
Humanitas Prize - Children's Animation CategoryWinnerHappily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child2000

Harvey Fierstein roles

Movie / Series Role
Mrs. DoubtfireFrank
MulanYao (voice)
Independence DayMarty Gilbert
Death to SmoochyMerv Green
Animal CrackersEsmerelda (voice)
Disney's Newsies: The Broadway MusicalWriter
Bullets Over BroadwaySid Loomis
Kull the ConquerorJuba
Foodfight!Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
How I Met Your MotherLily's Smoking Voice 1 episode, 2009
Family GuyBuster Keaton / ... 2 episodes, 2008-2015
Big MouthJerome 2 episodes, 2018-2020
The SimpsonsKarl 1 episode, 1990
Sesame StreetSelf 2 episodes, 2004-2007
Saturday Night LiveSelf (uncredited) unknown episodes
Murder, She WroteStan Hatter 1 episode, 1992
The Dark Crystal: Age of ResistanceThe Gourmand 7 episodes, 2019
The Larry Sanders ShowHarvey Fierstein 1 episode, 1997
BoJack HorsemaniOvulate 1 episode, 2017
HerculesArgus Panoptes 1 episode, 1998
Watch What Happens: LiveSelf - Guest 2 episodes, 2013-2018
SmashSelf 1 episode, 2013
Nurse JackieJohn Decker 1 episode, 2010
EllenSelf 1 episode, 1998
CBS News Sunday MorningSelf - Guest 1 episode, 2013
Miami ViceBenedict 1 episode, 1986
The Tonight Show with Jay LenoSelf - Guest 3 episodes, 1994-2013
Access HollywoodSelf 1 episode, 2016
Full Frontal with Samantha BeeSelf 1 episode, 2021
Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Guest 2 episodes, 1995-2007

Harvey Fierstein's Quotes

  • Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.
  • Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.
  • The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.
  • Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
  • [on Torch Song Trilogy (1988)] I'm happy that we made it. Is it everything I wanted it to be? Is anything ever? I fought with [director] Paul Bogart because I had based the entire third act on a song by Big Maybelle. When we went to make the movie, Paul refused to put it in the movie. We used a beautiful Ella Fitzgerald recording of "This Time the Dream's on Me", which is very pretty, but it doesn't have that emotion. But to Paul, it did. It's life. I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.

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Interesting Facts about Harvey Fierstein

  1. Has won four Tony Awards from only four nominations: two in 1983, as Best Actor (Play) and Author of Best Play for "Torch Song Trilogy", a performance he recreated in the film version of the same title, Torch Song Trilogy (1988); a third in 1984, the Book (Musical) Tony for writing the libretto of "La Cage aux Folles"; and the fourth in 2003, as Best Actor (Musical) in the Divine role of Edna Turnblad in "Hairspray". These four awards tie him with Tommy Tune for the most Tony Awards in different categories.
  2. The essence of Fierstein's landmark "Torch Song Trilogy" (1988) was autobiographical, since he began performing as a drag queen in Manhattan clubs as early as age 15.
  3. Won a GLAAD Award for Visibility category (1994).
  4. Won the Humanitas Prize in the Children's Animation Category for: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995) for episode "The Sissy Duckling" (2000).
  5. Was known only for playing drag roles off-off Broadway (often in plays he wrote himself) until he played his first male role in Robert Patrick III's "The Haunted Host" in Boston. The play was such a personal success for him that when he had to leave the show for four days for his father's funeral, the show closed.
  6. Won Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical at the 2003 Tony Awards for his role in the play "Hairspray".
  7. With his Tony Award win for "Hairspray", along with his three previous wins, he ties with Tommy Tune for most Tony Awards for different categories.
  8. In the 2003 New York City Thanksgiving Day Parade, he was Mrs. Claus, dressed in drag.
  9. After a severe bout of depression following a break up with a lover, Fierstein wrote about the painful experience and the end result was "The International Stud", which was produced at the Theater for the New City in 1976 (later at La MaMa in 1978) with Fierstein introducing and starring as his Arnold Beckoff character, a gay man whose bisexual lover dumps him for a female. Fierstein went on to write two more plays about Arnold and introduced "Fugue in a Nursery" and "Widows and Children First!", in 1979 at La MaMa, with Fierstein again playing the lead. Eventually, Fierstein integrated the three Arnold plays into a single play, "Torch Song Trilogy", which was first presented off-off-Broadway in 1981, and the rest is history.
  10. Is good friends with actor/director Danny DeVito.
  11. He pronounces his last name "fire-steen".
  12. His trademark voice is the result of over-developed ventricular folds in his throat, which produce a hoarse-sounding double voice.
  13. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Live Theatre at 6243 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 11, 2016.
  14. When he was cast as an openly gay fashion designer in the short-lived sitcom Daddy's Girls (1994), he became the first gay actor to play an openly gay character in a series in American television history.

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