Harvey Fierstein
- Acting
- June 6, 1952 · 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
Filmography
- Commitment to Life · Self
- 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 · Musical
- Funny Girl · Musical, Writer
- Animal Crackers · Esmerelda (Voice)
- Big Mouth · Older Guy Town Resident (Voice)
- The Fabulous Allan Carr · Self
- Newsies · Musical
- Hairspray Live! · Edna Turnblad, Teleplay
- Full Frontal with Samantha Bee · Self
- Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire · Self
- The Wiz Live! · Writer
- The Making of the Wiz Live! · Self
- BoJack Horseman · Harvey Fierstein (Voice)
- Trailblazer Honors · Self
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me · Self
- 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
- Playing Mona Lisa · Bennett
- Common Ground · Don, Writer
- The Sissy Duckling · Elmer (Voice), Writer
- Double Platinum · Gary Millstein
- Jump · Dish Macense
- Family Guy · Buster Keaton (Voice), Tracy (Voice)
- Hercules · Argus Panoptes (Voice)
- Safe Men · Good Stuff Leo
- Mulan · Yao (Voice)
- Kull the Conqueror · Juba
- White Lies · Art Hoarder
- Three Little Pigs · The Big Bad Wolf (Voice)
- 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, Theatre Play
- Tidy Endings · Arthur, Teleplay
- MaMa's Pushcart
- Apology · The derelict
- Garbo Talks · Bernie Whitlock