Harvey Fierstein
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
The Simpsons
Karl (voice)
1989
Series
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
Series
Family Guy
Buster Keaton (voice)
1999
Series
Family Guy
Tracy (voice)
1999
Series
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014
Series
The Good Wife
Judge Francis Flamm
2009
Series
Tony Awards
Self - Winner
1956
Series
How I Met Your Mother
Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
2005
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
Series
Murder, She Wrote
Stan Hatter
1984
Series
Cheers
Mark Newberger
1982
Series
BoJack Horseman
Harvey Fierstein (voice)
2014
Series
Miami Vice
Benedict
1984
Series
Big Mouth
Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
2017
Series
Ellen
Harvey Fierstein
1994
Series
Hercules
Argus Panoptes (voice)
1998
Series
The Larry Sanders Show
Harvey Fierstein
1992
Series
Smash
Harvey Fierstein
2012
Series
Nurse Jackie
John Decker
2009
Series
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Self
2016
Film
Mulan
Yao (voice)
1998
Series
Intimate Portrait
Self
1993
Film
Independence Day
Marty Gilbert
1996
Series
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
2019
Series
Trailblazer Honors
Self - Honoree
2014
Series
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
1995
Film
Mrs. Doubtfire
Frank
1993
Film
Mulan II
Yao (voice)
2004
Film
Animal Crackers
Esmerelda (voice)
2018
Film
Bros
Louis
2022
Film
Duplex
Kenneth
2003
Film
Death to Smoochy
Merv Green
2002
Film
Bullets Over Broadway
Sid Loomis
1994
Film
Foodfight!
Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
2012
Film
Kull the Conqueror
Juba
1997
Series
Daddy's Girls
Dennis Sinclair
1994
Film
Commitment to Life
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Safe Men
Good Stuff Leo
1998
Film
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Self
2007
Film
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Host
2006
Film
Torch Song Trilogy
Arnold Beckoff
1988
Film
The Celluloid Closet
Self
1996
Film
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive)
2017
Film
Hairspray Live!
Edna Turnblad
2016
Film
Double Platinum
Gary Millstein
1999
Film
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Yves DuBois
1995
Film
Farce of the Penguins
Sheila (voice)
2006
Film
The Sissy Duckling
Elmer (voice)
1999
Film
Playing Mona Lisa
Bennett
2000
Film
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Self - Host
2005
Film
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Easter Bunny
1996
Film
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Heat Miser
2006
Film
Garbo Talks
Bernie Whitlock
1984
Film
Disarm Hate
Narrator
2020
Film
The Times of Harvey Milk
Narrator (voice)
1984
Film
White Lies
Art Hoarder
1997
Film
Rescued from the Closet
Self
2001
Film
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
Self
1993
Film
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
Self
2002
Film
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Self
2007
Film
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Self
2004
Film
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Film
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Self (voice)
2004
Film
The Demon Murder Case
The Demon (voice)
1983
Film
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
Self (uncredited)
2004
Film
The Making of 'Independence Day'
Self
1996
Film
Common Ground
Don
2000
Film
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Self
2004
Film
Jump
Dish Macense
1999
Film
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Self (Archive)
2015
Film
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
Andrew
1991
Film
The Harvest
Bob Lakin
1993
Film
Apology
The derelict
1986
Film
Everything Relative
The Moyle
1996
Film
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Self
2019
Three Little Pigs
The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
1997
Film
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Self
2003
Film
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
Self
1990
Film
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Self
2015
Film
Tidy Endings
Arthur
1988
Film
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Performer
2020
Film
One on One with Vito Russo
Self (archive)
2001
Film
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
Self
1994
Film
MaMa's Pushcart
1988