Harvey Fierstein
Acting
Born: June 6, 1952 (age 74) · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Highest Rated
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
Independence Day
1996
Mulan
1998
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
How I Met Your Mother
2005
Family Guy
1999
BoJack Horseman
2014
Mulan II
2004
Duplex
2003
Big Mouth
2017
Cheers
1982
The Good Wife
2009
Photos (1)
Movies (37)
Independence Day
Marty Gilbert
Mrs. Doubtfire
Frank
Mulan
Yao (voice)
Bros
Louis
Death to Smoochy
Merv Green
Mulan II
Yao (voice)
Animal Crackers
Esmerelda (voice)
Hairspray Live!
Edna Turnblad
Bullets Over Broadway
Sid Loomis
Duplex
Kenneth
Kull the Conqueror
Juba
Torch Song Trilogy
Arnold Beckoff
Foodfight!
Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Yves DuBois
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Heat Miser
Safe Men
Good Stuff Leo
Farce of the Penguins
Sheila (voice)
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Playing Mona Lisa
Bennett
White Lies
Art Hoarder
The Times of Harvey Milk
Narrator (voice)
The Demon Murder Case
The Demon (voice)
Double Platinum
Gary Millstein
Garbo Talks
Bernie Whitlock
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Host
Jump
Dish Macense
The Sissy Duckling
Elmer (voice)
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Easter Bunny
Tidy Endings
Arthur
Apology
The derelict
Common Ground
Don
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Performer
The Harvest
Bob Lakin
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
Andrew
Disarm Hate
Narrator
Everything Relative
The Moyle
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
TV Shows (18)
The Simpsons
Karl (voice) · 1 eps
Family Guy
Buster Keaton (voice) · 1 eps
Family Guy
Tracy (voice) · 1 eps
How I Met Your Mother
Lily's Smoking Voice (voice) · 1 eps
The Good Wife
Judge Francis Flamm · 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
Stan Hatter · 1 eps
Cheers
Mark Newberger · 1 eps
Big Mouth
Older Guy Town Resident (voice) · 1 eps
Miami Vice
Benedict · 1 eps
BoJack Horseman
Harvey Fierstein (voice) · 1 eps
Nurse Jackie
John Decker · 1 eps
The Larry Sanders Show
Harvey Fierstein · 1 eps
Hercules
Argus Panoptes (voice) · 1 eps
Ellen
Harvey Fierstein · 1 eps
Smash
Harvey Fierstein · 1 eps
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Mrs. Leaperman (voice) · 1 eps
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice) · 7 eps
Daddy's Girls
Dennis Sinclair · 13 eps
Self / Appearances (28)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest · 3 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Winner · 1 eps
Intimate Portrait
Self · 1 eps
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Self · 1 eps
Trailblazer Honors
Self - Honoree · 1 eps
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Self
Rescued from the Closet
Self
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive footage)
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Self - Host
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Self
Commitment to Life
Self (archive footage)
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Self
The Celluloid Closet
Self
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Self
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
Self
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
Self
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
Self (uncredited)
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Self
The Making of 'Independence Day'
Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Self
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
Self
One on One with Vito Russo
Self (archive)
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Self (Archive)
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
Self
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Self
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Self (voice)
Writing (12)
Hairspray Live!
Teleplay
Torch Song Trilogy
Theatre Play
Torch Song Trilogy
Screenplay
Kinky Boots: The Musical
Musical
Newsies
Musical
The Wiz Live!
Writer
The Sissy Duckling
Writer
Tidy Endings
Theatre Play
Tidy Endings
Teleplay
Common Ground
Writer
Funny Girl
Musical
Funny Girl
Writer