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Harvey Fierstein
Born · June 6, 1954 (70 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Bio
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
6.7
2022
Disarm Hate
Narrator
1.0
2020
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice) · (10 episodes)
7.8
2019
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Himself
6.5
2019
Big Mouth
Older Guy Town Resident (voice) · (1 episode)
7.7
2017
Animal Crackers
Esmerelda (voice)
6.2
2017
Hairspray Live!
Edna Turnblad
7.3
2016
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Self · (1 episode)
5.9
2016
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Self
0.0
2015
BoJack Horseman
Harvey Fierstein (voice) · (1 episode)
8.6
2014
Trailblazer Honors
Self - Honoree · (1 episode)
7.5
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · (1 episode)
5.5
2014
Russian Broadway Shut Down
0.0
2014
Foodfight!
Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
1.9
2012
Smash
Harvey Fierstein · (1 episode)
6.6
2012
The Good Wife
Judge Francis Flamm · (1 episode)
7.6
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest · (3 episodes)
5.0
2009
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Self
7.0
2007
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Himself
0.0
2007
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Heat Miser
6.0
2006
Farce of the Penguins
Sheila (voice)
4.0
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Host
0.0
2006
How I Met Your Mother
Lily's Smoking Voice (voice) · (1 episode)
8.2
2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Self - Host
7.2
2005
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Self
2.0
2004
Mulan II
Yao (voice)
6.5
2004
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Self
3.0
2004
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Self (voice)
7.0
2004
Duplex
Kenneth
6.1
2003
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Self
9.4
2003
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
Self
0.0
2002
Death to Smoochy
Merv Green
5.9
2002
Rescued from the Closet
Self
6.0
2001
Playing Mona Lisa
Bennett
5.8
2000
Common Ground
Don
4.7
2000
The Sissy Duckling
Elmer (voice)
6.0
1999
Double Platinum
Gary Millstein
7.8
1999
Jump
Dish Macense
1.5
1999
Family Guy
Buster Keaton (voice) · (1 episode)
7.4
1999
Family Guy
Tracy (voice) · (1 episode)
7.4
1999
Hercules
Argus Panoptes (voice) · (1 episode)
6.8
1998
Safe Men
Good Stuff Leo
5.6
1998
Mulan
Yao (voice)
7.9
1998
Kull the Conqueror
Juba
5.2
1997
White Lies
Art Hoarder
0.0
1997
Three Little Pigs
The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
5.8
1997
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Easter Bunny
5.9
1996
Everything Relative
The Moyle
1.8
1996
The Making of 'Independence Day'
Self
5.8
1996
Independence Day
Marty Gilbert
6.9
1996
The Celluloid Closet
Self
7.2
1996
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Yves DuBois
4.7
1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Mrs. Leaperman (voice) · (1 episode)
6.0
1995
Bullets Over Broadway
Sid Loomis
7.1
1994
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
0.0
1994
Daddy's Girls
Dennis Sinclair · (13 episodes)
0.0
1994
Ellen
Harvey Fierstein · (1 episode)
6.4
1994
Mrs. Doubtfire
Frank
7.2
1993
Intimate Portrait
Self · (1 episode)
4.5
1993
The Harvest
Bob Lakin
5.2
1993
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
Self
0.0
1993
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
Self
0.0
1990
The Simpsons
Karl (voice) · (1 episode)
8.0
1989
Torch Song Trilogy
Arnold Beckoff
7.3
1988
Tidy Endings
Arthur
1.0
1988
MaMa's Pushcart
0.0
1988
Apology
The derelict
4.9
1986
Garbo Talks
Bernie Whitlock
6.1
1984
The Times of Harvey Milk
Narrator (voice)
7.3
1984
Murder, She Wrote
Stan Hatter · (1 episode)
7.5
1984
Miami Vice
(1 episode)
7.5
1984
The Demon Murder Case
The Demon (voice)
6.0
1983
Cheers
Mark Newberger · (1 episode)
7.6
1982
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · (1 episode)
6.9
1975
Tony Awards
Self - Winner · (1 episode)
5.0
1956