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