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