Harvey Fierstein
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Jun 6, 1952 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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
| 2022 | BrosLouis | |
| 2020 | Disarm HateNarrator | |
| 2020 | Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of BroadwayPerformer | |
| 2019 | Fiddler: A Miracle of MiraclesSelf | |
| 2019 | The Dark Crystal: Age of ResistanceskekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice) | |
| 2018 | Animal CrackersEsmerelda (voice) | |
| 2017 | Big MouthOlder Guy Town Resident (voice) | |
| 2016 | Hairspray Live!Edna Turnblad | |
| 2016 | Full Frontal with Samantha BeeSelf | |
| 2015 | The Making of the Wiz Live!Self | |
| 2015 | Another Take on… Mrs. DoubtfireSelf (Archive) | |
| 2014 | Russian Broadway Shut Down | |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth MeyersSelf | |
| 2014 | Trailblazer HonorsSelf - Honoree | |
| 2014 | BoJack HorsemanHarvey Fierstein (voice) | |
| 2012 | Foodfight!Fat Cat Burglar (voice) | |
| 2012 | SmashHarvey Fierstein | |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSelf - Guest | |
| 2009 | The Good WifeJudge Francis Flamm | |
| 2007 | ShowBusiness: The Road to BroadwaySelf | |
| 2007 | Words and Music by Jerry HermanSelf | |
| 2006 | The Year Without a Santa ClausHeat Miser | |
| 2006 | Farce of the PenguinsSheila (voz) | |
| 2006 | The Best of The Tony Awards: The PlaysHost | |
| 2005 | Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony AwardsSelf - Host | |
| 2005 | How I Met Your MotherLily's Smoking Voice (voice) | |
| 2004 | Happy Birthday Oscar WildeSelf | |
| 2004 | Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of MeSelf (voice) | |
| 2004 | Mulan IIYao (voice) | |
| 2004 | Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie CurtisSelf | |
| 2003 | DuplexKenneth | |
| 2003 | The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait SeriesSelf | |
| 2002 | Death to SmoochyMerv Green | |
| 2002 | Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes DocumentarySelf | |
| 2001 | Rescued from the ClosetSelf | |
| 2000 | Playing Mona LisaBennett | |
| 2000 | Common GroundDon | |
| 1999 | JumpDish Macense | |
| 1999 | Double PlatinumGary Millstein | |
| 1999 | The Sissy DucklingElmer (voice) | |
| 1999 | Family GuyBuster Keaton (voice) | |
| 1999 | Family GuyTracy (voice) | |
| 1998 | Safe MenGood Stuff Leo | |
| 1998 | MulanYao (voice) | |
| 1998 | HerculesArgus Panoptes (voice) | |
| 1997 | White LiesArt Hoarder | |
| 1997 | Three Little PigsThe Big Bad Wolf (voice) | |
| 1997 | Kull the ConquerorJuba | |
| 1996 | Sesame Street: Elmo Saves ChristmasEaster Bunny | |
| 1996 | Everything RelativeThe Moyle | |
| 1996 | Independence DayMarty Gilbert | |
| 1996 | The Celluloid ClosetSelf | |
| 1996 | The Making of 'Independence Day'Self | |
| 1995 | Dr. Jekyll and Ms. HydeYves DuBois | |
| 1995 | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every ChildMrs. Leaperman (voice) | |
| 1994 | Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and ProtestSelf | |
| 1994 | Bullets Over BroadwaySid Loomis | |
| 1994 | Daddy's GirlsDennis Sinclair | |
| 1994 | EllenHarvey Fierstein | |
| 1993 | An Evening with Lily Tomlin and FriendsSelf | |
| 1993 | Mrs. DoubtfireFrank | |
| 1993 | The HarvestBob Lakin | |
| 1993 | Intimate PortraitSelf | |
| 1992 | The Larry Sanders ShowHarvey Fierstein | |
| 1991 | In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS StoryAndrew | |
| 1990 | The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?Self | |
| 1989 | The SimpsonsKarl (voice) | |
| 1988 | Tidy EndingsArthur | |
| 1988 | Torch Song TrilogyArnold Beckoff | |
| 1988 | MaMa's Pushcart | |
| 1986 | ApologyThe derelict | |
| 1984 | Garbo TalksBernie Whitlock | |
| 1984 | The Times of Harvey MilkNarrator (voice) | |
| 1984 | Miami ViceBenedict | |
| 1984 | Murder, She WroteStan Hatter | |
| 1983 | The Demon Murder CaseThe Demon (voice) | |
| 1982 | CheersMark Newberger | |
| 1975 | Saturday Night LiveSelf - Cameo (uncredited) | |
| 1956 | Tony AwardsSelf - Winner |
| 2019 | Kinky Boots: The MusicalMusical | |
| 2019 | Kinky Boots: The MusicalWriter | |
| 2018 | Funny GirlMusical | |
| 2018 | Funny GirlWriter | |
| 2017 | NewsiesMusical | |
| 2016 | Hairspray Live!Teleplay | |
| 2015 | The Wiz Live!Writer | |
| 2000 | Common GroundWriter | |
| 1999 | The Sissy DucklingWriter | |
| 1988 | Torch Song TrilogyTheatre Play | |
| 1988 | Tidy EndingsTheatre Play | |
| 1988 | Tidy EndingsTeleplay | |
| 1988 | Torch Song TrilogyScreenplay |