Harvey Fierstein
Birthdate
June 6, 1954 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Known For
Acting
Details
Birthdate
June 6, 1954 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Known For
Acting
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.
Harvey Fierstein's LGBTQ+ Titles
Bros
Lewis
Hairspray Live!
Edna Turnblad
Kinky Boots: The Musical
Musical
The Celluloid Closet
Self
Torch Song Trilogy
Arnold Beckoff
The Times of Harvey Milk
Narrator (voice)
Acting (70)
2022
Bros as Lewis
2020
Disarm Hate as Narrator
2019
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice) (10 episodes)
2019
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles as Himself
2017
Big Mouth as Older Guy Town Resident (voice) (1 episode)
2017
Animal Crackers as Esmerelda (voice)
2016
Hairspray Live! as Edna Turnblad
2016
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee as Self (1 episode)
2015
The Making of the Wiz Live! as Himself
2014
BoJack Horseman as Harvey Fierstein (voice) (1 episode)
2014
Trailblazer Honors as Honoree (1 episode)
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self (1 episode)
2014
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2012
Foodfight! as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
2012
Smash as Harvey Fierstein (1 episode)
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest (2 episodes)
2007
Farce of the Penguins as Sheila (voice)
2007
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway as Self
2007
Words and Music by Jerry Herman as Himself
2006
The Year Without a Santa Claus as Heat Miser
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Host
2005
How I Met Your Mother as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice) (1 episode)
2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Host
2004
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
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me as Self (voice)
2003
Duplex as Kenneth
2003
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series as Self
2002
Death to Smoochy as Merv Green
2001
Rescued from the Closet as Self
2000
Playing Mona Lisa as Bennett
2000
Common Ground as Don
1999
The Sissy Duckling as Elmer (voice)
1999
Double Platinum as Gary Millstein
1999
Jump as Dish Macense
1999
Family Guy as Buster Keaton (voice) (1 episode)
1999
Family Guy as Tracy (voice) (1 episode)
1999
Three Little Pigs as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
1998
Hercules as Argus Panoptes (voice) (1 episode)
1998
Safe Men as Good Stuff Leo
1998
Mulan as Yao (voice)
1997
Kull the Conqueror as Juba
1997
White Lies as Art Hoarder
1996
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas as Easter Bunny
1996
Everything Relative as The Moyle
1996
The Making of 'Independence Day' as Self
1996
Independence Day as Marty Gilbert
1996
The Celluloid Closet as Self
1995
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde as Yves DuBois
1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Mrs. Leaperman (voice) (1 episode)
1994
Bullets Over Broadway as Sid Loomis
1994
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994
Daddy's Girls as Dennis Sinclair (13 episodes)
1993
Mrs. Doubtfire as Frank
1993
Intimate Portrait as Self (1 episode)
1993
The Harvest as Bob Lakin
1993
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends as Self
1990
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? as Self
1989
The Simpsons as Karl (voice) (1 episode)
1988
Torch Song Trilogy as Arnold Beckoff
1988
Tidy Endings as Arthur
1988
MaMa's Pushcart
1986
Apology as The derelict
1984
Garbo Talks as Bernie Whitlock
1984
The Times of Harvey Milk as Narrator (voice)
1984
Miami Vice (1 episode)
1983
The Demon Murder Case as The Demon (voice)
1975
Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited) (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards as Self - Winner (1 episode)
Writing (11)
• Musical
2018
Funny Girl
• Musical
2017
Newsies
• Musical
2016
• Teleplay
2015
The Wiz Live!
• Writer
2000
Common Ground
• Writer
1999
The Sissy Duckling
• Writer
• Screenplay
• Theatre Play
1988
Tidy Endings
• Teleplay
• Theatre Play