Harvey Fierstein
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.
Acted in
Bros
2022
as Louis
Disarm Hate
2020
as Narrator
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
as Himself
Big Mouth
2017
as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
Animal Crackers
2017
as Esmerelda (voice)
Hairspray Live!
2016
as Edna Turnblad
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015
as Self
BoJack Horseman
2014
as Harvey Fierstein (voice)
Trailblazer Honors
2014
as Self - Honoree
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Foodfight!
2012
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Smash
2012
as Harvey Fierstein
The Good Wife
2009
as Judge Francis Flamm
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
as Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
as Himself
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
as Heat Miser
Farce of the Penguins
2006
as Sheila (voice)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Host
How I Met Your Mother
2005
as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
as Self - Host
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
as Self
Mulan II
2004
as Yao (voice)
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004
as Self
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
as Self (voice)
Duplex
2003
as Kenneth
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
as Self
Death to Smoochy
2002
as Merv Green
Rescued from the Closet
2001
as Self
Playing Mona Lisa
2000
as Bennett
Common Ground
2000
as Don
The Sissy Duckling
1999
as Elmer (voice)
Double Platinum
1999
as Gary Millstein
Jump
1999
as Dish Macense
Family Guy
1999
as Buster Keaton (voice)
Family Guy
1999
as Tracy (voice)
Hercules
1998
as Argus Panoptes (voice)
Safe Men
1998
as Good Stuff Leo
Mulan
1998
as Yao (voice)
Kull the Conqueror
1997
as Juba
White Lies
1997
as Art Hoarder
Three Little Pigs
1997
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996
as Easter Bunny
Everything Relative
1996
as The Moyle
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996
as Self
Independence Day
1996
as Marty Gilbert
The Celluloid Closet
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)
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
as Sid Loomis
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994
Daddy's Girls
1994
as Dennis Sinclair
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
as Frank
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self
The Harvest
1993
as Bob Lakin
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993
as Self
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
Tidy Endings
1988
as Arthur
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
Apology
1986
as The derelict
Garbo Talks
1984
as Bernie Whitlock
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984
as Narrator (voice)
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Stan Hatter
Miami Vice
1984
The Demon Murder Case
1983
as The Demon (voice)
Cheers
1982
as Mark Newberger
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Winner