Harvey Fierstein
Born: 1952-06-06 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2022
- Bros as Louis
2020
- Disarm Hate as Narrator
- Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway as Performer
2019
- The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
- Kinky Boots: The Musical ... (Musical)
- Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles as Self
2018
- Funny Girl ... (Musical)
2017
- Big Mouth as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
- Newsies ... (Musical)
- Animal Crackers as Esmerelda (voice)
2016
- Full Frontal with Samantha Bee as Self
- Hairspray Live! as Edna Turnblad
2015
- Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire as Self (Archive)
- The Wiz Live! ... (Writer)
- The Making of the Wiz Live! as Self
2014
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- BoJack Horseman as Harvey Fierstein (voice)
- Trailblazer Honors as Self - Honoree
- Russian Broadway Shut Down
2012
- Smash as Harvey Fierstein
- Foodfight! as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
2009
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- The Good Wife as Judge Francis Flamm
2007
- ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway as Self
- Words and Music by Jerry Herman as Self
2006
- The Year Without a Santa Claus as Heat Miser
- Farce of the Penguins as Sheila (voice)
- The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Host
2005
- How I Met Your Mother as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
- Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Self - Host
2004
- Mulan II as Yao (voice)
- Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis as Self
- Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me as Self (voice)
- Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde as Self
2003
- Duplex as Kenneth
- The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series as Self
2002
- Death to Smoochy as Merv Green
- Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary as Self
2001
- Rescued from the Closet as Self
2000
- Common Ground as Don
- Playing Mona Lisa as Bennett
1999
- Family Guy as Buster Keaton (voice)
- Jump as Dish Macense
- The Sissy Duckling as Elmer (voice)
- Double Platinum as Gary Millstein
1997
- Kull the Conqueror as Juba
- White Lies as Art Hoarder
- Three Little Pigs as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
1996
- Independence Day as Marty Gilbert
- The Celluloid Closet as Self
- Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas as Easter Bunny
- Everything Relative as The Moyle
- The Making of 'Independence Day' as Self
1995
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
- Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde as Yves DuBois
1994
- Ellen as Harvey Fierstein
- Bullets Over Broadway as Sid Loomis
- Daddy's Girls as Dennis Sinclair
- Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1993
- Mrs. Doubtfire as Frank
- Intimate Portrait as Self
- The Harvest as Bob Lakin
- An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends as Self
1991
- In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story as Andrew
1990
1989
- The Simpsons as Karl (voice)
1988
- Tidy Endings as Arthur
- Torch Song Trilogy as Arnold Beckoff
- MaMa's Pushcart
1986
- Apology as The derelict
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Stan Hatter
- Miami Vice as Benedict
- Garbo Talks as Bernie Whitlock
- The Times of Harvey Milk as Narrator (voice)
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