Harvey Fierstein
June 6, 1954 (70 years old) in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
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
Credits
- 2022 · Bros as Louis
- 2020 · Disarm Hate as Narrator
- 2019 · The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
- 2019 · Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles as Himself
- 2017 · Big Mouth as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
- 2017 · Animal Crackers as Esmerelda (voice)
- 2016 · Hairspray Live! as Edna Turnblad
- 2016 · Full Frontal with Samantha Bee as Self
- 2015 · The Making of the Wiz Live! as Self
- 2014 · BoJack Horseman as Harvey Fierstein (voice)
- 2014 · Trailblazer Honors as Self - Honoree
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · Russian Broadway Shut Down as
- 2012 · Foodfight! as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
- 2012 · Smash as Harvey Fierstein
- 2009 · The Good Wife as Judge Francis Flamm
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2007 · ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway as Self
- 2007 · Words and Music by Jerry Herman as Himself
- 2006 · The Year Without a Santa Claus as Heat Miser
- 2006 · Farce of the Penguins as Sheila (voice)
- 2006 · The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Host
- 2005 · How I Met Your Mother as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
- 2005 · Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Self - Host
- 2004 · Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde as Self
- 2004 · Mulan II as Yao (voice)
- 2004 · Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis as Self
- 2004 · Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me as Self (voice)
- 2003 · Duplex as Kenneth
- 2003 · The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series as Self
- 2002 · Death to Smoochy as Merv Green
- 2001 · Rescued from the Closet as Self
- 2000 · Playing Mona Lisa as Bennett
- 2000 · Common Ground as Don
- 1999 · The Sissy Duckling as Elmer (voice)
- 1999 · Double Platinum as Gary Millstein
- 1999 · Jump as Dish Macense
- 1999 · Family Guy as Buster Keaton (voice)
- 1999 · Family Guy as Tracy (voice)
- 1998 · Hercules as Argus Panoptes (voice)
- 1998 · Safe Men as Good Stuff Leo
- 1998 · Mulan as Yao (voice)
- 1997 · Kull the Conqueror as Juba
- 1997 · White Lies as Art Hoarder
- 1997 · Three Little Pigs as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
- 1996 · Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas as Easter Bunny
- 1996 · Everything Relative as The Moyle
- 1996 · The Making of 'Independence Day' as Self
- 1996 · Independence Day as Marty Gilbert
- 1996 · The Celluloid Closet as Self
- 1995 · Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde as Yves DuBois
- 1995 · Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
- 1994 · Bullets Over Broadway as Sid Loomis
- 1994 · Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest as
- 1994 · Daddy's Girls as Dennis Sinclair
- 1994 · Ellen as Harvey Fierstein
- 1993 · Mrs. Doubtfire as Frank
- 1993 · Intimate Portrait as Self
- 1993 · The Harvest as Bob Lakin
- 1993 · An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends as Self
- 1990 · The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? as Self
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Karl (voice)
- 1988 · Torch Song Trilogy as Arnold Beckoff
- 1988 · Tidy Endings as Arthur
- 1988 · MaMa's Pushcart as
- 1986 · Apology as The derelict
- 1984 · Garbo Talks as Bernie Whitlock
- 1984 · The Times of Harvey Milk as Narrator (voice)
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Stan Hatter
- 1984 · Miami Vice as
- 1983 · The Demon Murder Case as The Demon (voice)
- 1982 · Cheers as Mark Newberger
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Winner