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
Family Guy
Buster Keaton (voice)
The Simpsons
Karl (voice)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
How I Met Your Mother
Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
The Good Wife
Judge Francis Flamm
Cheers
Mark Newberger
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Murder, She Wrote
Stan Hatter
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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