Person
Harvey Fierstein
Acting · Born 1952-06-06 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
The Simpsons
Karl (voice)
Family Guy
Buster Keaton (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
Murder, She Wrote
Stan Hatter
The Good Wife
Judge Francis Flamm
Tony Awards
Self - Winner
How I Met Your Mother
Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
BoJack Horseman
Harvey Fierstein (voice)
Filmography
- 2023Commitment to LifeSelf (archive footage)
- 2022BrosLouis
- 2020Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of BroadwayPerformer
- 2020Disarm HateNarrator
- 2019The Dark Crystal: Age of ResistanceskekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
- 2019Fiddler: A Miracle of MiraclesSelf
- 2019Kinky Boots: The MusicalMusical
- 2018Funny GirlMusical
- 2018Animal CrackersEsmerelda (voice)
- 2017Big MouthOlder Guy Town Resident (voice)
- 2017The Fabulous Allan CarrSelf (archive)
- 2017NewsiesMusical
- 2016Hairspray Live!Edna Turnblad
- 2016Full Frontal with Samantha BeeSelf
- 2015Another Take on… Mrs. DoubtfireSelf (Archive)
- 2015The Wiz Live!Writer
- 2015The Making of the Wiz Live!Self
- 2014BoJack HorsemanHarvey Fierstein (voice)
- 2014Trailblazer HonorsSelf - Honoree
- 2014Late Night with Seth MeyersSelf
- 2014Russian Broadway Shut Down
- 2012Foodfight!Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
- 2012SmashHarvey Fierstein
- 2009The Good WifeJudge Francis Flamm
- 2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSelf - Guest
- 2009Nurse JackieJohn Decker
- 2007ShowBusiness: The Road to BroadwaySelf
- 2007Words and Music by Jerry HermanSelf
- 2006The Year Without a Santa ClausHeat Miser
- 2006Farce of the PenguinsSheila (voice)
- 2006The Best of The Tony Awards: The PlaysHost
- 2005How I Met Your MotherLily's Smoking Voice (voice)
- 2005Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony AwardsSelf - Host
- 2004Happy Birthday Oscar WildeSelf
- 2004Mulan IIYao (voice)
- 2004Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie CurtisSelf
- 2004Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!Self (uncredited)
- 2004Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of MeSelf (voice)
- 2003DuplexKenneth
- 2003The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait SeriesSelf
- 2002Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes DocumentarySelf
- 2002Death to SmoochyMerv Green
- 2001Rescued from the ClosetSelf
- 2001One on One with Vito RussoSelf (archive)
- 2000Playing Mona LisaBennett
- 2000Common GroundDon
- 1999The Sissy DucklingElmer (voice)
- 1999Double PlatinumGary Millstein
- 1999JumpDish Macense
- 1999Family GuyBuster Keaton (voice)
- 1998HerculesArgus Panoptes (voice)
- 1998Safe MenGood Stuff Leo
- 1998MulanYao (voice)
- 1997Kull the ConquerorJuba
- 1997White LiesArt Hoarder
- 1997Three Little PigsThe Big Bad Wolf (voice)
- 1996Sesame Street: Elmo Saves ChristmasEaster Bunny
- 1996Everything RelativeThe Moyle
- 1996Independence DayMarty Gilbert
- 1996The Making of 'Independence Day'Self
- 1996The Celluloid ClosetSelf
- 1995Dr. Jekyll and Ms. HydeYves DuBois
- 1995Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every ChildMrs. Leaperman (voice)
- 1994Bullets Over BroadwaySid Loomis
- 1994Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and ProtestSelf
- 1994Daddy's GirlsDennis Sinclair
- 1994EllenHarvey Fierstein
- 1993Mrs. DoubtfireFrank
- 1993Intimate PortraitSelf
- 1993The HarvestBob Lakin
- 1993An Evening with Lily Tomlin and FriendsSelf
- 1992The Larry Sanders ShowHarvey Fierstein
- 1991In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS StoryAndrew
- 1990The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?Self
- 1989The SimpsonsKarl (voice)
- 1988Torch Song TrilogyArnold Beckoff
- 1988Tidy EndingsArthur
- 1988MaMa's Pushcart
- 1986ApologyThe derelict
- 1984Garbo TalksBernie Whitlock
- 1984The Times of Harvey MilkNarrator (voice)
- 1984Murder, She WroteStan Hatter
- 1984Miami ViceBenedict
- 1983The Demon Murder CaseThe Demon (voice)
- 1982CheersMark Newberger
- 1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Cameo (uncredited)
- 1956Tony AwardsSelf - Winner
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