Harvey Fierstein
Known for Acting · 81 credits
- Born
- 1952-06-06 (age 73)
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Harvey Forbes 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.
Known For
The Simpsons
1989
as Karl (voice)
Family Guy
1999
as Buster Keaton (voice) / Tracy (voice)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
How I Met Your Mother
2005
as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
TV Shows (24)
The Simpsons
1989
as Karl (voice)
Family Guy
1999
as Buster Keaton (voice) / Tracy (voice)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
How I Met Your Mother
2005
as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
The Good Wife
2009
as Judge Francis Flamm
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Stan Hatter
Cheers
1982
as Mark Newberger
Miami Vice
1984
as Benedict
BoJack Horseman
2014
as Harvey Fierstein (voice)
Smash
2012
as Harvey Fierstein
Big Mouth
2017
as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Winner
Ellen
1994
as Harvey Fierstein
Hercules
1998
as Argus Panoptes (voice)
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
as Harvey Fierstein
Nurse Jackie
2009
as John Decker
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016
as Self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
Trailblazer Honors
2014
as Self - Honoree
Daddy's Girls
1994
as Dennis Sinclair
Movies (57)
Mulan
1998
as Yao (voice)
Independence Day
1996
as Marty Gilbert
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
as Frank
Mulan II
2004
as Yao (voice)
Duplex
2003
as Kenneth
Animal Crackers
2018
as Esmerelda (voice)
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
as Sid Loomis
Safe Men
1998
as Good Stuff Leo
Bros
2022
as Louis
Death to Smoochy
2002
as Merv Green
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Host
Apology
1986
as The derelict
The Celluloid Closet
1996
as Self
Hairspray Live!
2016
as Edna Turnblad
Kull the Conqueror
1997
as Juba
Foodfight!
2012
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Farce of the Penguins
2006
as Sheila (voz)
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995
as Yves DuBois
Common Ground
2000
as Don
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996
as Easter Bunny
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
as Self
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
as Heat Miser
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
as Self (archive)
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
as Self - Host
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996
as Self
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
as Self
White Lies
1997
as Art Hoarder
Playing Mona Lisa
2000
as Bennett
Rescued from the Closet
2001
as Self
Jump
1999
as Dish Macense
The Sissy Duckling
1999
as Elmer (voice)
Garbo Talks
1984
as Bernie Whitlock
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
as Self
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002
as Self
Torch Song Trilogy
1988
as Arnold Beckoff
Commitment to Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
as Self
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020
as Performer
The Harvest
1993
as Bob Lakin
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004
as Self
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Double Platinum
1999
as Gary Millstein
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993
as Self
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
as Self (voice)
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984
as Narrator (voice)
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015
as Self
The Demon Murder Case
1983
as The Demon (voice)
Everything Relative
1996
as The Moyle
Tidy Endings
1988
as Arthur
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
as Self
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994
as Self
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
as Self (Archive)
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990
as Self
Three Little Pigs
1997
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991
as Andrew
Disarm Hate
2020
as Narrator
About 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 Hal… With 81 credits spanning from 1956 to 2023, Harvey Fierstein has appeared in 57 films and 24 TV shows.
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Most Popular Harvey Fierstein Movies
- Mulan (1998) — as Yao (voice)
- Independence Day (1996) — as Marty Gilbert
- Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) — as Frank
- Mulan II (2004) — as Yao (voice)
- Duplex (2003) — as Kenneth
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