Acting
Harvey Fierstein
Acting · Born 1952-06-06 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
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FilmBros
2022 · Louis
FilmDisarm Hate
2020 · Narrator
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019 · skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
FilmFiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019 · Self
FilmKinky Boots: The Musical
2019 · Musical
FilmFunny Girl
2018 · Musical
FilmAnimal Crackers
2018 · Esmerelda (voice)
Big Mouth
2017 · Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
FilmThe Fabulous Allan Carr
2017 · Self (archive)
FilmNewsies
2017 · Musical
FilmHairspray Live!
2016 · Edna Turnblad
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016 · Self
FilmThe Wiz Live!
2015 · Writer
BoJack Horseman
2014 · Harvey Fierstein (voice)
Trailblazer Honors
2014 · Self - Honoree
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self
FilmFoodfight!
2012 · Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Smash
2012 · Harvey Fierstein
The Good Wife
2009 · Judge Francis Flamm
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest
Nurse Jackie
2009 · John Decker
FilmShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007 · Self
FilmThe Year Without a Santa Claus
2006 · Heat Miser
FilmFarce of the Penguins
2006 · Sheila (voice)
How I Met Your Mother
2005 · Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
FilmBroadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005 · Self - Host
FilmHappy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004 · Self
FilmMulan II
2004 · Yao (voice)
FilmSuperstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004 · Self
FilmSesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
2004 · Self (uncredited)
FilmHappy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004 · Self (voice)
FilmDuplex
2003 · Kenneth
FilmThe Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003 · Self
FilmDeath to Smoochy
2002 · Merv Green
FilmRescued from the Closet
2001 · Self
FilmPlaying Mona Lisa
2000 · Bennett
FilmCommon Ground
2000 · Don
FilmThe Sissy Duckling
1999 · Elmer (voice)
FilmDouble Platinum
1999 · Gary Millstein
FilmJump
1999 · Dish Macense
Family Guy
1999 · Buster Keaton (voice)
Hercules
1998 · Argus Panoptes (voice)
FilmSafe Men
1998 · Good Stuff Leo
FilmMulan
1998 · Yao (voice)
FilmKull the Conqueror
1997 · Juba
FilmWhite Lies
1997 · Art Hoarder
Three Little Pigs
FilmThree Little Pigs
1997 · The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
FilmSesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996 · Easter Bunny
FilmEverything Relative
1996 · The Moyle
FilmIndependence Day
1996 · Marty Gilbert
FilmThe Making of 'Independence Day'
1996 · Self
FilmThe Celluloid Closet
1996 · Self
FilmDr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995 · Yves DuBois
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
FilmBullets Over Broadway
1994 · Sid Loomis
Daddy's Girls
1994 · Dennis Sinclair
Ellen
1994 · Harvey Fierstein
FilmMrs. Doubtfire
1993 · Frank
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Self
FilmThe Harvest
1993 · Bob Lakin
The Larry Sanders Show
1992 · Harvey Fierstein
The Simpsons
1989 · Karl (voice)
FilmTorch Song Trilogy
1988 · Arnold Beckoff
FilmTidy Endings
1988 · Arthur
FilmApology
1986 · The derelict
FilmGarbo Talks
1984 · Bernie Whitlock
FilmThe Times of Harvey Milk
1984 · Narrator (voice)
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Stan Hatter
Miami Vice
1984 · Benedict
FilmThe Demon Murder Case
1983 · The Demon (voice)
Cheers
1982 · Mark Newberger
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Winner