Acting · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA · Born June 6, 1952
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.
MovieCommitment to Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)
MovieBros
2022
as Louis
MovieShoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020
as Performer
MovieDisarm Hate
2020
as Narrator
TVThe Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
MovieFiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
as Self
MovieAnimal Crackers
2018
as Esmerelda (voice)
TVBig Mouth
2017
as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
MovieThe Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
as Self (archive)
MovieHairspray Live!
2016
as Edna Turnblad
TVFull Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016
as Self
MovieAnother Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
as Self (Archive)
MovieThe Making of the Wiz Live!
2015
as Self
TVBoJack Horseman
2014
as Harvey Fierstein (voice)
TVTrailblazer Honors
2014
as Self - Honoree
TVLate Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
MovieRussian Broadway Shut Down
2014
MovieFoodfight!
2012
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
TVSmash
2012
as Harvey Fierstein
TVThe Good Wife
2009
as Judge Francis Flamm
TVWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
TVNurse Jackie
2009
as John Decker
MovieShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
as Self
MovieWords and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
as Self
MovieThe Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
as Heat Miser
MovieFarce of the Penguins
2006
as Sheila (voice)
MovieThe Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Host
TVHow I Met Your Mother
2005
as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
MovieBroadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
as Self - Host
MovieHappy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
as Self
MovieMulan II
2004
as Yao (voice)
MovieSuperstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004
as Self
MovieSesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
2004
as Self (uncredited)
MovieHappy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
as Self (voice)
MovieDuplex
2003
as Kenneth
MovieThe Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
as Self
MovieDeath to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002
as Self
MovieDeath to Smoochy
2002
as Merv Green
MovieRescued from the Closet
2001
as Self
MovieOne on One with Vito Russo
2001
as Self (archive)
MoviePlaying Mona Lisa
2000
as Bennett
MovieCommon Ground
2000
as Don
MovieThe Sissy Duckling
1999
as Elmer (voice)
MovieDouble Platinum
1999
as Gary Millstein
MovieJump
1999
as Dish Macense
TVFamily Guy
1999
as Buster Keaton (voice)
TVHercules
1998
as Argus Panoptes (voice)
MovieSafe Men
1998
as Good Stuff Leo
MovieMulan
1998
as Yao (voice)
MovieKull the Conqueror
1997
as Juba
MovieWhite Lies
1997
as Art Hoarder
Three Little Pigs
1997
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
MovieSesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996
as Easter Bunny
MovieEverything Relative
1996
as The Moyle
MovieIndependence Day
1996
as Marty Gilbert
MovieThe Making of 'Independence Day'
1996
as Self
MovieThe Celluloid Closet
1996
as Self
MovieDr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995
as Yves DuBois
TVHappily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
MovieBullets Over Broadway
1994
as Sid Loomis
MovieStonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994
as Self
TVDaddy's Girls
1994
as Dennis Sinclair
TVEllen
1994
as Harvey Fierstein
MovieMrs. Doubtfire
1993
as Frank
TVIntimate Portrait
1993
as Self
MovieThe Harvest
1993
as Bob Lakin
MovieAn Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993
as Self
TVThe Larry Sanders Show
1992
as Harvey Fierstein
MovieIn the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991
as Andrew
MovieThe American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990
as Self
TVThe Simpsons
1989
as Karl (voice)
MovieTorch Song Trilogy
1988
as Arnold Beckoff
MovieTidy Endings
1988
as Arthur
MovieMaMa's Pushcart
1988
MovieApology
1986
as The derelict
MovieGarbo Talks
1984
as Bernie Whitlock
MovieThe Times of Harvey Milk
1984
as Narrator (voice)
TVMurder, She Wrote
1984
as Stan Hatter
TVMiami Vice
1984
as Benedict
MovieThe Demon Murder Case
1983
as The Demon (voice)
TVCheers
1982
as Mark Newberger
TVSaturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
TVTony Awards
1956
as Self - Winner
