Harvey Fierstein
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 Boot...
Known For
Filmography
Commitment to Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Bros
2022
as Louis
Disarm Hate
2020
as Narrator
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020
as Performer
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
as Self
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
Animal Crackers
2018
as Esmerelda (voice)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Big Mouth
2017
as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
Hairspray Live!
2016
as Edna Turnblad
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016
as Self
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015
as Self
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
as Self (Archive)
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
Trailblazer Honors
2014
as Self - Honoree
BoJack Horseman
2014
as Harvey Fierstein (voice)
Foodfight!
2012
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Smash
2012
as Harvey Fierstein
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
The Good Wife
2009
as Judge Francis Flamm
Nurse Jackie
2009
as John Decker
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
as Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
as Self
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
as Heat Miser
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Host
Farce of the Penguins
2006
as Sheila (voice)
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
as Self - Host
How I Met Your Mother
2005
as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
as Self
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
as Self (voice)
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004
as Self
Mulan II
2004
as Yao (voice)
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
2004
as Self (uncredited)
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
as Self
Duplex
2003
as Kenneth
Death to Smoochy
2002
as Merv Green
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002
as Self
Rescued from the Closet
2001
as Self
One on One with Vito Russo
2001
as Self (archive)
Common Ground
2000
as Don
Playing Mona Lisa
2000
as Bennett
Jump
1999
as Dish Macense
Double Platinum
1999
as Gary Millstein
The Sissy Duckling
1999
as Elmer (voice)
Family Guy
1999
as Buster Keaton (voice)
Family Guy
1999
as Tracy (voice)
Safe Men
1998
as Good Stuff Leo
Mulan
1998
as Yao (voice)
Hercules
1998
as Argus Panoptes (voice)
White Lies
1997
as Art Hoarder
Three Little Pigs
1997
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
Kull the Conqueror
1997
as Juba
Everything Relative
1996
as The Moyle
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996
as Easter Bunny
The Celluloid Closet
1996
as Self
Independence Day
1996
as Marty Gilbert
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996
as Self
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995
as Yves DuBois
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994
as Self
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
as Sid Loomis
Daddy's Girls
1994
as Dennis Sinclair
Ellen
1994
as Harvey Fierstein
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993
as Self
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
as Frank
The Harvest
1993
as Bob Lakin
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
as Harvey Fierstein
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991
as Andrew
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990
as Self
The Simpsons
1989
as Karl (voice)
Torch Song Trilogy
1988
as Arnold Beckoff
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
Tidy Endings
1988
as Arthur
Apology
1986
as The derelict
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984
as Narrator (voice)
Garbo Talks
1984
as Bernie Whitlock
Miami Vice
1984
as Benedict
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Stan Hatter
The Demon Murder Case
1983
as The Demon (voice)
Cheers
1982
as Mark Newberger
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Winner