Acting

Harvey Fierstein

Born 1952-06-06 · 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.

Credits

Newest first

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