- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- June 6, 1952
- Place of Birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Harvey Fierstein
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
movieCommitment to Life
2023 · Self (archive footage)
movieBros
2022 · Louis
movieShoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020 · Performer
movieDisarm Hate
2020 · Narrator
tvThe Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019 · skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
movieFiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019 · Self
movieKinky Boots: The Musical
2019 · Musical
movieFunny Girl
2018 · Musical, Writer
movieAnimal Crackers
2018 · Esmerelda (voice)
tvBig Mouth
2017 · Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
movieThe Fabulous Allan Carr
2017 · Self (archive)
movieNewsies
2017 · Musical
movieHairspray Live!
2016 · Edna Turnblad, Teleplay
tvFull Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016 · Self
movieAnother Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015 · Self (Archive)
movieThe Wiz Live!
2015 · Writer
movieThe Making of the Wiz Live!
2015 · Self
tvBoJack Horseman
2014 · Harvey Fierstein (voice)
tvTrailblazer Honors
2014 · Self - Honoree
tvLate Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self
movieRussian Broadway Shut Down
2014
movieFoodfight!
2012 · Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
tvSmash
2012 · Harvey Fierstein
tvThe Good Wife
2009 · Judge Francis Flamm
tvWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest
tvNurse Jackie
2009 · John Decker
movieShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007 · Self
movieWords and Music by Jerry Herman
2007 · Self
movieThe Year Without a Santa Claus
2006 · Heat Miser
movieFarce of the Penguins
2006 · Sheila (voice)
movieThe Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 · Host
tvHow I Met Your Mother
2005 · Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
movieBroadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005 · Self - Host
movieHappy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004 · Self
movieMulan II
2004 · Yao (voice)
movieSuperstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004 · Self
movieSesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
2004 · Self (uncredited)
movieHappy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004 · Self (voice)
movieDuplex
2003 · Kenneth
movieThe Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003 · Self
movieDeath to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002 · Self
movieDeath to Smoochy
2002 · Merv Green
movieRescued from the Closet
2001 · Self
movieOne on One with Vito Russo
2001 · Self (archive)
moviePlaying Mona Lisa
2000 · Bennett
movieCommon Ground
2000 · Don, Writer
movieThe Sissy Duckling
1999 · Elmer (voice), Writer
movieDouble Platinum
1999 · Gary Millstein
movieJump
1999 · Dish Macense
tvFamily Guy
1999 · Buster Keaton (voice), Tracy (voice)
tvHercules
1998 · Argus Panoptes (voice)
movieSafe Men
1998 · Good Stuff Leo
movieMulan
1998 · Yao (voice)
movieKull the Conqueror
1997 · Juba
movieWhite Lies
1997 · Art Hoarder
Three Little Pigs
movieThree Little Pigs
1997 · The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
movieSesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996 · Easter Bunny
movieEverything Relative
1996 · The Moyle
movieIndependence Day
1996 · Marty Gilbert
movieThe Making of 'Independence Day'
1996 · Self
movieThe Celluloid Closet
1996 · Self
movieDr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995 · Yves DuBois
tvHappily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
movieBullets Over Broadway
1994 · Sid Loomis
movieStonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994 · Self
tvDaddy's Girls
1994 · Dennis Sinclair
tvEllen
1994 · Harvey Fierstein
movieMrs. Doubtfire
1993 · Frank
tvIntimate Portrait
1993 · Self
movieThe Harvest
1993 · Bob Lakin
movieAn Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993 · Self
tvThe Larry Sanders Show
1992 · Harvey Fierstein
movieIn the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991 · Andrew
movieThe American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990 · Self
tvThe Simpsons
1989 · Karl (voice)
movieTorch Song Trilogy
1988 · Arnold Beckoff, Theatre Play, Screenplay
movieTidy Endings
1988 · Arthur, Teleplay, Theatre Play
movieMaMa's Pushcart
1988
movieApology
1986 · The derelict
movieGarbo Talks
1984 · Bernie Whitlock
movieThe Times of Harvey Milk
1984 · Narrator (voice)
tvMurder, She Wrote
1984 · Stan Hatter
tvMiami Vice
1984 · Benedict
movieThe Demon Murder Case
1983 · The Demon (voice)
tvCheers
1982 · Mark Newberger
tvSaturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Cameo (uncredited)
tvTony Awards
1956 · Self - Winner