Harvey Fierstein
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.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
89
Gender
Male
Birthday
1954-06-06 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Acting
2022
Bros as Louis2020
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway as Performer2020
Disarm Hate as Narrator2019
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)2019
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles as Himself2017
Big Mouth as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)2017
Animal Crackers as Esmerelda (voice)2016
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee as Self2016
Hairspray Live! as Edna Turnblad2015
The Making of the Wiz Live! as Self2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self2014
BoJack Horseman as Harvey Fierstein (voice)2014
Trailblazer Honors as Self - Honoree2014
Russian Broadway Shut Down as Not available2012
Smash as Harvey Fierstein2012
Foodfight! as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest2009
The Good Wife as Judge Francis Flamm2007
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway as Self2007
Words and Music by Jerry Herman as Self2006
Farce of the Penguins as Sheila (voice)2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Host2006
The Year Without a Santa Claus as Heat Miser2005
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 - Host2004
Mulan II as Yao (voice)2004
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde as Self2004
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me as Self (voice)2003
Duplex as Kenneth2003
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series as Self2002
Death to Smoochy as Merv Green2002
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary as Self2001
Rescued from the Closet as Self2000
Common Ground as Don2000
Playing Mona Lisa as Bennett1999
Family Guy as Buster Keaton (voice)1999
Family Guy as Tracy (voice)1999
Double Platinum as Gary Millstein1999
The Sissy Duckling as Elmer (voice)1999
Jump as Dish Macense1998
Mulan as Yao (voice)1998
Hercules as Argus Panoptes (voice)1998
Safe Men as Good Stuff Leo1997
Kull the Conqueror as Juba1997
White Lies as Art Hoarder1997
Three Little Pigs as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)1996
Independence Day as Marty Gilbert1996
The Celluloid Closet as Self1996
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas as Easter Bunny1996
The Making of 'Independence Day' as Self1996
Everything Relative as The Moyle1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Mrs. Leaperman (voice)1995
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde as Yves DuBois1994
Ellen as Harvey Fierstein1994
Daddy's Girls as Dennis Sinclair1994
Bullets Over Broadway as Sid Loomis1994
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest as Not available1993
Intimate Portrait as Self1993
Mrs. Doubtfire as Frank1993
The Harvest as Bob Lakin1993
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends as Self1990
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? as Self1989
The Simpsons as Karl (voice)1988
Torch Song Trilogy as Arnold Beckoff1988
Tidy Endings as Arthur1988
MaMa's Pushcart as Not available1986
Apology as The derelict1984
Murder, She Wrote as Stan Hatter1984
Miami Vice as Not available1984
Garbo Talks as Bernie Whitlock1984
The Times of Harvey Milk as Narrator (voice)1983
The Demon Murder Case as The Demon (voice)1982
Cheers as Mark Newberger1975
Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)1956
Tony Awards as Self - WinnerCrew
2019
Kinky Boots: The Musical Musical2019
Kinky Boots: The Musical Writer2018
Funny Girl Musical2018
Funny Girl Writer2017
Newsies Musical2016
Hairspray Live! Teleplay2015
The Wiz Live! Writer2000
Common Ground Writer1999
The Sissy Duckling Writer1988
Torch Song Trilogy Theatre Play1988
Tidy Endings Teleplay1988
Tidy Endings Theatre Play1988
Torch Song Trilogy Screenplay