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.
Bros
Louis
2022
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Performer
2020
Disarm Hate
Narrator
2020
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice) · (7 episodes)
2019
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Himself
2019
Big Mouth
Older Guy Town Resident (voice) · (1 episode)
2017
Animal Crackers
Esmerelda (voice)
2017
Hairspray Live!
Edna Turnblad
2016
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Self · (1 episode)
2016
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Self
2015
BoJack Horseman
Harvey Fierstein (voice) · (1 episode)
2014
Trailblazer Honors
Self - Honoree · (1 episode)
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · (1 episode)
2014
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Foodfight!
Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
2012
Smash
Harvey Fierstein · (1 episode)
2012
The Good Wife
Judge Francis Flamm · (1 episode)
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest · (3 episodes)
2009
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Self
2007
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Self
2007
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Heat Miser
2006
Farce of the Penguins
Sheila (voice)
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Host
2006
How I Met Your Mother
Lily's Smoking Voice (voice) · (1 episode)
2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Self - Host
2005
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Self
2004
Mulan II
Yao (voice)
2004
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Self
2004
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Self (voice)
2004
Duplex
Kenneth
2003
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Self
2003
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
Self
2002
Death to Smoochy
Merv Green
2002
Rescued from the Closet
Self
2001
Playing Mona Lisa
Bennett
2000
Common Ground
Don
2000
The Sissy Duckling
Elmer (voice)
1999
Double Platinum
Gary Millstein
1999
Jump
Dish Macense
1999
Family Guy
Buster Keaton (voice) · (1 episode)
1999
Family Guy
Tracy (voice) · (1 episode)
1999
Hercules
Argus Panoptes (voice) · (1 episode)
1998
Safe Men
Good Stuff Leo
1998
Mulan
Yao (voice)
1998
Kull the Conqueror
Juba
1997
White Lies
Art Hoarder
1997
Three Little Pigs
The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
1997
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Easter Bunny
1996
Everything Relative
The Moyle
1996
The Making of 'Independence Day'
Self
1996
Independence Day
Marty Gilbert
1996
The Celluloid Closet
Self
1996
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Yves DuBois
1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Mrs. Leaperman (voice) · (1 episode)
1995
Bullets Over Broadway
Sid Loomis
1994
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994
Daddy's Girls
Dennis Sinclair · (13 episodes)
1994
Ellen
Harvey Fierstein · (1 episode)
1994
Mrs. Doubtfire
Frank
1993
Intimate Portrait
Self · (1 episode)
1993
The Harvest
Bob Lakin
1993
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
Self
1993
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
Andrew
1991
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
Self
1990
The Simpsons
Karl (voice) · (1 episode)
1989
Torch Song Trilogy
Arnold Beckoff
1988
Tidy Endings
Arthur
1988
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
Apology
The derelict
1986
Garbo Talks
Bernie Whitlock
1984
The Times of Harvey Milk
Narrator (voice)
1984
Murder, She Wrote
Stan Hatter · (1 episode)
1984
Miami Vice
(1 episode)
1984
The Demon Murder Case
The Demon (voice)
1983
Cheers
Mark Newberger · (1 episode)
1982
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · (1 episode)
1975
Tony Awards
Self - Winner · (1 episode)
1956