Acting

Harvey Fierstein

1952-06-06 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Movies & TV shows

80 credits

The Simpsons

1989 · Karl (voice)

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Family Guy

1999 · Buster Keaton (voice)

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Family Guy

1999 · Tracy (voice)

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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009 · Self - Guest

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Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014 · Self

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The Good Wife

2009 · Judge Francis Flamm

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Saturday Night Live

1975 · Self - Cameo (uncredited)

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How I Met Your Mother

2005 · Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)

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Cheers

1982 · Mark Newberger

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Miami Vice

1984 · Benedict

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Murder, She Wrote

1984 · Stan Hatter

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BoJack Horseman

2014 · Harvey Fierstein (voice)

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Tony Awards

1956 · Self - Winner

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Big Mouth

2017 · Older Guy Town Resident (voice)

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Nurse Jackie

2009 · John Decker

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Ellen

1994 · Harvey Fierstein

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Hercules

1998 · Argus Panoptes (voice)

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Intimate Portrait

1993 · Self

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The Larry Sanders Show

1992 · Harvey Fierstein

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Mulan

1998 · Yao (voice)

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Smash

2012 · Harvey Fierstein

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Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

2016 · Self

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Independence Day

1996 · Marty Gilbert

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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

1995 · Mrs. Leaperman (voice)

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Daddy's Girls

1994 · Dennis Sinclair

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The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

2019 · skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)

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Mrs. Doubtfire

1993 · Frank

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Trailblazer Honors

2014 · Self - Honoree

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Mulan II

2004 · Yao (voice)

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Duplex

2003 · Kenneth

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Bros

2022 · Louis

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Death to Smoochy

2002 · Merv Green

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Animal Crackers

2018 · Esmerelda (voice)

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Bullets Over Broadway

1994 · Sid Loomis

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Safe Men

1998 · Good Stuff Leo

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Foodfight!

2012 · Fat Cat Burglar (voice)

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Kull the Conqueror

1997 · Juba

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Commitment to Life

2023 · Self (archive footage)

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Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

1995 · Yves DuBois

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Hairspray Live!

2016 · Edna Turnblad

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The Celluloid Closet

1996 · Self

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Farce of the Penguins

2006 · Sheila (voice)

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The Fabulous Allan Carr

2017 · Self (archive)

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Torch Song Trilogy

1988 · Arnold Beckoff

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Disarm Hate

2020 · Narrator

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The Times of Harvey Milk

1984 · Narrator (voice)

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Rescued from the Closet

2001 · Self

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Double Platinum

1999 · Gary Millstein

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Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

1996 · Easter Bunny

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Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

2005 · Self - Host

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The Demon Murder Case

1983 · The Demon (voice)

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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006 · Host

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Common Ground

2000 · Don

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Garbo Talks

1984 · Bernie Whitlock

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White Lies

1997 · Art Hoarder

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Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary

2002 · Self

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Playing Mona Lisa

2000 · Bennett

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The Year Without a Santa Claus

2006 · Heat Miser

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Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!

2004 · Self (uncredited)

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Russian Broadway Shut Down

2014

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Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest

1994 · Self

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Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

2019 · Self

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ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

2007 · Self

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The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

2003 · Self

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Everything Relative

1996 · The Moyle

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The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

1990 · Self

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Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

2004 · Self

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The Harvest

1993 · Bob Lakin

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Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway

2020 · Performer

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The Making of 'Independence Day'

1996 · Self

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Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

2004 · Self

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Apology

1986 · The derelict

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The Sissy Duckling

1999 · Elmer (voice)

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An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends

1993 · Self

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Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

2004 · Self (voice)

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Tidy Endings

1988 · Arthur

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Three Little Pigs

1997 · The Big Bad Wolf (voice)

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Words and Music by Jerry Herman

2007 · Self

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The Making of the Wiz Live!

2015 · Self

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Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire

2015 · Self (Archive)

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