Harvey Fierstein
Acting1952Brooklyn, 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
Acting History
2021
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
TVas Self• 1 eps
2019
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
TVas skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)• 7 eps
Kinky Boots: The Musical
Musical
Kinky Boots: The Musical
Writer
2018
Big Mouth
TVas Older Guy Town Resident (voice)• 1 eps
2017
Animal Crackers
as Esmerelda (voice)
BoJack Horseman
TVas Harvey Fierstein (voice)• 1 eps
Newsies
Musical
2016
Hairspray Live!
as Edna Turnblad
Hairspray Live!
Teleplay
2015
The Wiz Live!
Writer
2014
Trailblazer Honors
TVas Self - Honoree
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TVas Self
2013
Smash
TVas Harvey Fierstein• 1 eps
2012
Foodfight!
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
2011
The Good Wife
TVas Judge Francis Flamm• 1 eps
2009
How I Met Your Mother
TVas Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)• 1 eps
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TVas Self - Guest
2008
Family Guy
TVas Tracy (voice) / Buster Keaton (voice)• 1 eps
2007
2006
Farce of the Penguins
as Sheila (voz)
The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Heat Miser
2005
2004
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self (voice)
Mulan II
as Yao (voice)
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
as Self
2003
Duplex
as Kenneth
Tony Awards
TVas Self - Winner• 1 eps
2002
Death to Smoochy
as Merv Green
2001
Intimate Portrait
TVas Self• 1 eps
2000
1999
Double Platinum
as Gary Millstein
The Sissy Duckling
as Elmer (voice)
Jump
as Dish Macense
The Sissy Duckling
Writer
1997
Kull the Conqueror
as Juba
Three Little Pigs
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
The Larry Sanders Show
TVas Harvey Fierstein• 1 eps
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TVas Mrs. Leaperman (voice)• 1 eps
1996
Independence Day
as Marty Gilbert
The Celluloid Closet
as Self
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
as Easter Bunny
Everything Relative
as The Moyle
1995
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
as Yves DuBois
1994
Bullets Over Broadway
as Sid Loomis
1993
Mrs. Doubtfire
as Frank
The Harvest
as Bob Lakin
1992
Cheers
TVas Mark Newberger• 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
TVas Stan Hatter• 1 eps
1991
1990
The Simpsons
TVas Karl (voice)• 1 eps
1988
Torch Song Trilogy
as Arnold Beckoff
Tidy Endings
as Arthur
Tidy Endings
Teleplay
Tidy Endings
Theatre Play
Torch Song Trilogy
Theatre Play
Torch Song Trilogy
Screenplay
1986
Apology
as The derelict
Miami Vice
TVas Benedict• 1 eps
1984
The Times of Harvey Milk
as Narrator (voice)
Garbo Talks
as Bernie Whitlock
1983
The Demon Murder Case
as The Demon (voice)
1975
Saturday Night Live
TVas Self - Cameo (uncredited)