Harvey Fierstein
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 6, 1952 (age 74)
- Birthplace
- 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
Filmography
Commitment to Life
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Bros
Movie · as Louis
Disarm Hate
Movie · as Narrator
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Movie · as Performer
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Movie · as Self
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
TV · as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice) · 7 eps
Animal Crackers
Movie · as Esmerelda (voice)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Big Mouth
TV · as Older Guy Town Resident (voice) · 1 ep
Hairspray Live!
Movie · as Edna Turnblad
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Movie · as Self
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Movie · as Self (Archive)
Russian Broadway Shut Down
Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Trailblazer Honors
TV · as Self - Honoree · 1 ep
BoJack Horseman
TV · as Harvey Fierstein (voice) · 1 ep
Foodfight!
Movie · as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Smash
TV · as Harvey Fierstein · 1 ep
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV · as Self - Guest · 3 eps
The Good Wife
TV · as Judge Francis Flamm · 1 ep
Nurse Jackie
TV · as John Decker · 1 ep
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Movie · as Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Movie · as Self
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Movie · as Heat Miser
Farce of the Penguins
Movie · as Sheila (voice)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Movie · as Host
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Movie · as Self - Host
How I Met Your Mother
TV · as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice) · 1 ep
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Movie · as Self
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Movie · as Self (voice)
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Movie · as Self
Mulan II
Movie · as Yao (voice)
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
Duplex
Movie · as Kenneth
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Movie · as Self
Death to Smoochy
Movie · as Merv Green
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
Movie · as Self
Rescued from the Closet
Movie · as Self
One on One with Vito Russo
Movie · as Self (archive)
Common Ground
Movie · as Don
Playing Mona Lisa
Movie · as Bennett
Jump
Movie · as Dish Macense
Double Platinum
Movie · as Gary Millstein
The Sissy Duckling
Movie · as Elmer (voice)
Family Guy
TV · as Buster Keaton (voice), Tracy (voice) · 1 ep
Mulan
Movie · as Yao (voice)
Safe Men
Movie · as Good Stuff Leo
Hercules
TV · as Argus Panoptes (voice) · 1 ep
White Lies
Movie · as Art Hoarder
Three Little Pigs
Movie · as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
Kull the Conqueror
Movie · as Juba
Independence Day
Movie · as Marty Gilbert
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Movie · as Easter Bunny
Everything Relative
Movie · as The Moyle
The Celluloid Closet
Movie · as Self
The Making of 'Independence Day'
Movie · as Self
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Movie · as Yves DuBois
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV · as Mrs. Leaperman (voice) · 1 ep
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
Movie · as Self
Bullets Over Broadway
Movie · as Sid Loomis
Daddy's Girls
TV · as Dennis Sinclair · 13 eps
Ellen
TV · as Harvey Fierstein · 1 ep
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
Movie · as Self
The Harvest
Movie · as Bob Lakin
Mrs. Doubtfire
Movie · as Frank
Intimate Portrait
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Larry Sanders Show
TV · as Harvey Fierstein · 1 ep
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
Movie · as Andrew
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
Movie · as Self
The Simpsons
TV · as Karl (voice) · 1 ep
Torch Song Trilogy
Movie · as Arnold Beckoff
MaMa's Pushcart
Movie
Tidy Endings
Movie · as Arthur
Apology
Movie · as The derelict
Garbo Talks
Movie · as Bernie Whitlock
The Times of Harvey Milk
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Miami Vice
TV · as Benedict · 1 ep
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Stan Hatter · 1 ep
The Demon Murder Case
Movie · as The Demon (voice)
Cheers
TV · as Mark Newberger · 1 ep
Saturday Night Live
TV · as Self - Cameo (uncredited) · 1 ep
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Winner · 1 ep