Actor
Harvey Fierstein
- 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.
Known for
The Simpsons1989
Independence Day1996
Mulan1998
Mrs. Doubtfire1993
How I Met Your Mother2005
Family Guy1999
BoJack Horseman2014
Mulan II2004
Filmography
- 2023Commitment to LifeFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2022BrosFilmLouis
- 2020Disarm HateFilmNarrator
- 2020Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of BroadwayFilmPerformer
- 2019The Dark Crystal: Age of ResistanceSeriesskekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
- 2019Kinky Boots: The MusicalFilmMusical
- 2019Fiddler: A Miracle of MiraclesFilmSelf
- 2018Animal CrackersFilmEsmerelda (voice)
- 2018Funny GirlFilmMusical, Writer
- 2017Big MouthSeriesOlder Guy Town Resident (voice)
- 2017NewsiesFilmMusical
- 2017The Fabulous Allan CarrFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2016Hairspray Live!FilmEdna Turnblad, Teleplay
- 2016Full Frontal with Samantha BeeSeriesSelf
- 2015The Wiz Live!FilmWriter
- 2015The Making of the Wiz Live!FilmSelf
- 2015Another Take on… Mrs. DoubtfireFilmSelf (Archive)
- 2014BoJack HorsemanSeriesHarvey Fierstein (voice)
- 2014Late Night with Seth MeyersSeriesSelf
- 2014Trailblazer HonorsSeriesSelf - Honoree
- 2014Russian Broadway Shut DownFilm
- 2012Foodfight!FilmFat Cat Burglar (voice)
- 2012SmashSeriesHarvey Fierstein
- 2009The Good WifeSeriesJudge Francis Flamm
- 2009Nurse JackieSeriesJohn Decker
- 2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSeriesSelf - Guest
- 2007ShowBusiness: The Road to BroadwayFilmSelf
- 2007Words and Music by Jerry HermanFilmSelf
- 2006Farce of the PenguinsFilmSheila (voice)
- 2006The Year Without a Santa ClausFilmHeat Miser
- 2006The Best of The Tony Awards: The PlaysFilmHost
- 2005How I Met Your MotherSeriesLily's Smoking Voice (voice)
- 2005Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony AwardsFilmSelf - Host
- 2004Mulan IIFilmYao (voice)
- 2004Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie CurtisFilmSelf
- 2004Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!FilmSelf (uncredited)
- 2004Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of MeFilmSelf (voice)
- 2004Happy Birthday Oscar WildeFilmSelf
- 2003DuplexFilmKenneth
- 2003The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait SeriesFilmSelf
- 2002Death to SmoochyFilmMerv Green
- 2002Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes DocumentaryFilmSelf
- 2001Rescued from the ClosetFilmSelf
- 2001One on One with Vito RussoFilmSelf (archive)
- 2000Common GroundFilmDon, Writer
- 2000Playing Mona LisaFilmBennett
- 1999Family GuySeriesBuster Keaton (voice), Tracy (voice)
- 1999Double PlatinumFilmGary Millstein
- 1999The Sissy DucklingFilmElmer (voice), Writer
- 1999JumpFilmDish Macense
- 1998MulanFilmYao (voice)
- 1998HerculesSeriesArgus Panoptes (voice)
- 1998Safe MenFilmGood Stuff Leo
- 1997Kull the ConquerorFilmJuba
- 1997White LiesFilmArt Hoarder
- 1997Three Little PigsFilmThe Big Bad Wolf (voice)
- 1996Independence DayFilmMarty Gilbert
- 1996The Celluloid ClosetFilmSelf
- 1996Sesame Street: Elmo Saves ChristmasFilmEaster Bunny
- 1996The Making of 'Independence Day'FilmSelf
- 1996Everything RelativeFilmThe Moyle
- 1995Dr. Jekyll and Ms. HydeFilmYves DuBois
- 1995Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every ChildSeriesMrs. Leaperman (voice)
- 1994Bullets Over BroadwayFilmSid Loomis
- 1994EllenSeriesHarvey Fierstein
- 1994Daddy's GirlsSeriesDennis Sinclair
- 1994Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and ProtestFilmSelf
- 1993Mrs. DoubtfireFilmFrank
- 1993The HarvestFilmBob Lakin
- 1993Intimate PortraitSeriesSelf
- 1993An Evening with Lily Tomlin and FriendsFilmSelf
- 1992The Larry Sanders ShowSeriesHarvey Fierstein
- 1991In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS StoryFilmAndrew
- 1990The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?FilmSelf
- 1989The SimpsonsSeriesKarl (voice)
- 1988Torch Song TrilogyFilmArnold Beckoff, Theatre Play, Screenplay
- 1988Tidy EndingsFilmArthur, Teleplay, Theatre Play
- 1988MaMa's PushcartFilm
- 1986ApologyFilmThe derelict
- 1984Miami ViceSeriesBenedict