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.
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Acting History
2022
Bros as Louis
2020Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway as Performer
2020Disarm Hate as Narrator
2019The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
2019Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles as Self
2017Big Mouth as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
2017Animal Crackers as Esmerelda (voice)
2016Hairspray Live! as Edna Turnblad
2016Full Frontal with Samantha Bee as Self
2015Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire as Self (Archive)
2015The Making of the Wiz Live! as Self
2014BoJack Horseman as Harvey Fierstein (voice)
2014Trailblazer Honors as Self - Honoree
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014Russian Broadway Shut Down
2012Foodfight! as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
2012Smash as Harvey Fierstein
2009The Good Wife as Judge Francis Flamm
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2007ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway as Self
2007Words and Music by Jerry Herman as Self
2006The Year Without a Santa Claus as Heat Miser
2006Farce of the Penguins as Sheila (voz)
2006The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Host
2005How I Met Your Mother as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
2005Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Self - Host
2004Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde as Self
2004Mulan II as Yao (voice)
2004Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis as Self
2004Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me as Self (voice)
2003Duplex as Kenneth
2003The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series as Self
2002Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary as Self
2002Death to Smoochy as Merv Green
2001Rescued from the Closet as Self
2000Playing Mona Lisa as Bennett
2000Common Ground as Don
1999The Sissy Duckling as Elmer (voice)
1999Double Platinum as Gary Millstein
1999Jump as Dish Macense
1999Family Guy as Buster Keaton (voice)
1999Family Guy as Tracy (voice)
1998Hercules as Argus Panoptes (voice)
1998Safe Men as Good Stuff Leo
1998Mulan as Yao (voice)
1997Kull the Conqueror as Juba
1997White Lies as Art Hoarder
1997Three Little Pigs as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
1996Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas as Easter Bunny
1996Everything Relative as The Moyle
1996The Making of 'Independence Day' as Self
1996Independence Day as Marty Gilbert
1996The Celluloid Closet as Self
1995Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde as Yves DuBois
1995Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
1994Bullets Over Broadway as Sid Loomis
1994Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994Daddy's Girls as Dennis Sinclair
1994Ellen as Harvey Fierstein
1993Mrs. Doubtfire as Frank
1993Intimate Portrait as Self
1993The Harvest as Bob Lakin
1993An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends as Self
1991In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story as Andrew
1990The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? as Self
1989The Simpsons as Karl (voice)
1988Torch Song Trilogy as Arnold Beckoff
1988Tidy Endings as Arthur
1988MaMa's Pushcart
1986Apology as The derelict
1984Garbo Talks as Bernie Whitlock
1984The Times of Harvey Milk as Narrator (voice)
1984Murder, She Wrote as Stan Hatter
1984Miami Vice as Benedict
1983The Demon Murder Case as The Demon (voice)
1982Cheers as Mark Newberger
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1956Tony Awards as Self - Winner