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.

Known For

The Simpsons

Family Guy

Family Guy

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Good Wife

Saturday Night Live

How I Met Your Mother

All Movies (58)

• Commitment to Life2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Bros2022 · as Louis
• Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway2020 · as Performer
• Disarm Hate2020 · as Narrator
• Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles2019 · as Self
• Animal Crackers2018 · as Esmerelda (voice)
• The Fabulous Allan Carr2017 · as Self (archive)
• Hairspray Live!2016 · as Edna Turnblad
• Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire2015 · as Self (Archive)
• The Making of the Wiz Live!2015 · as Self
• Russian Broadway Shut Down2014
• Foodfight!2012 · as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
• ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway2007 · as Self
• Words and Music by Jerry Herman2007 · as Self
• The Year Without a Santa Claus2006 · as Heat Miser
• Farce of the Penguins2006 · as Sheila (voz)
• The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays2006 · as Host
• Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards2005 · as Self - Host
• Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde2004 · as Self
• Mulan II2004 · as Yao (voice)
• Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis2004 · as Self
• Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me2004 · as Self (voice)
• Duplex2003 · as Kenneth
• The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series2003 · as Self
• Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary2002 · as Self
• Death to Smoochy2002 · as Merv Green
• Rescued from the Closet2001 · as Self
• One on One with Vito Russo2001 · as Self (archive)
• Playing Mona Lisa2000 · as Bennett
• Common Ground2000 · as Don
• The Sissy Duckling1999 · as Elmer (voice)
• Double Platinum1999 · as Gary Millstein
• Jump1999 · as Dish Macense
• Safe Men1998 · as Good Stuff Leo
• Mulan1998 · as Yao (voice)
• Kull the Conqueror1997 · as Juba
• White Lies1997 · as Art Hoarder
• Three Little Pigs1997 · as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
• Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas1996 · as Easter Bunny
• Everything Relative1996 · as The Moyle
• The Making of 'Independence Day'1996 · as Self
• Independence Day1996 · as Marty Gilbert
• The Celluloid Closet1996 · as Self
• Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde1995 · as Yves DuBois
• Bullets Over Broadway1994 · as Sid Loomis
• Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest1994 · as Self
• Mrs. Doubtfire1993 · as Frank
• The Harvest1993 · as Bob Lakin
• An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends1993 · as Self
• In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story1991 · as Andrew
• The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?1990 · as Self
• Torch Song Trilogy1988 · as Arnold Beckoff
• Tidy Endings1988 · as Arthur
• MaMa's Pushcart1988
• Apology1986 · as The derelict
• Garbo Talks1984 · as Bernie Whitlock
• The Times of Harvey Milk1984 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Demon Murder Case1983 · as The Demon (voice)

All TV Shows (25)

• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance2019 · as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
• Big Mouth2017 · as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
• Full Frontal with Samantha Bee2016 · as Self
• BoJack Horseman2014 · as Harvey Fierstein (voice)
• Trailblazer Honors2014 · as Self - Honoree
• Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self
• Smash2012 · as Harvey Fierstein
• The Good Wife2009 · as Judge Francis Flamm
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen2009 · as Self - Guest
• Nurse Jackie2009 · as John Decker
• How I Met Your Mother2005 · as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
• Family Guy1999 · as Buster Keaton (voice)
• Family Guy1999 · as Tracy (voice)
• Hercules1998 · as Argus Panoptes (voice)
• Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child1995 · as Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
• Daddy's Girls1994 · as Dennis Sinclair
• Ellen1994 · as Harvey Fierstein
• Intimate Portrait1993 · as Self
• The Larry Sanders Show1992 · as Harvey Fierstein
• The Simpsons1989 · as Karl (voice)
• Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Stan Hatter
• Miami Vice1984 · as Benedict
• Cheers1982 · as Mark Newberger
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Winner