Acting
Harvey Fierstein
Born 1952-06-06
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For
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The Simpsons
1989
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Independence Day
1996
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Mulan
1998
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Family Guy
1999
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Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
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How I Met Your Mother
2005
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
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BoJack Horseman
2014
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Mulan II
2004
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Duplex
2003
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (96 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Commitment to Life | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2023 |
 | Bros | Louis | Movie | 2022 |
 | Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway | Performer | Movie | 2020 |
 | Disarm Hate | Narrator | Movie | 2020 |
 | The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance | skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice) | TV Series | 2019 |
 | Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles | Self | Movie | 2019 |
 | Kinky Boots: The Musical | Musical | Movie | 2019 |
 | Funny Girl | Musical | Movie | 2018 |
| Funny Girl | Writer | Movie | 2018 |
 | Animal Crackers | Esmerelda (voice) | Movie | 2018 |
 | Big Mouth | Older Guy Town Resident (voice) | TV Series | 2017 |
 | The Fabulous Allan Carr | Self (archive) | Movie | 2017 |
 | Newsies | Musical | Movie | 2017 |
 | Hairspray Live! | Edna Turnblad | Movie | 2016 |
| Hairspray Live! | Teleplay | Movie | 2016 |
 | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | Self | TV Series | 2016 |
 | Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire | Self (Archive) | Movie | 2015 |
 | The Wiz Live! | Writer | Movie | 2015 |
 | The Making of the Wiz Live! | Self | Movie | 2015 |
 | BoJack Horseman | Harvey Fierstein (voice) | TV Series | 2014 |
 | Trailblazer Honors | Self - Honoree | TV Series | 2014 |
 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | TV Series | 2014 |
 | Russian Broadway Shut Down | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2014 |
 | Foodfight! | Fat Cat Burglar (voice) | Movie | 2012 |
 | Smash | Harvey Fierstein | TV Series | 2012 |
 | The Good Wife | Judge Francis Flamm | TV Series | 2009 |
 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest | TV Series | 2009 |
 | Nurse Jackie | John Decker | TV Series | 2009 |
 | ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway | Self | Movie | 2007 |
 | Words and Music by Jerry Herman | Self | Movie | 2007 |
 | The Year Without a Santa Claus | Heat Miser | Movie | 2006 |
 | Farce of the Penguins | Sheila (voice) | Movie | 2006 |
 | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Host | Movie | 2006 |
 | How I Met Your Mother | Lily's Smoking Voice (voice) | TV Series | 2005 |
 | Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards | Self - Host | Movie | 2005 |
 | Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde | Self | Movie | 2004 |
 | Mulan II | Yao (voice) | Movie | 2004 |
 | Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis | Self | Movie | 2004 |
 | Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! | Self (uncredited) | Movie | 2004 |
 | Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me | Self (voice) | Movie | 2004 |
 | Duplex | Kenneth | Movie | 2003 |
 | The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series | Self | Movie | 2003 |
 | Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary | Self | Movie | 2002 |
 | Death to Smoochy | Merv Green | Movie | 2002 |
 | Rescued from the Closet | Self | Movie | 2001 |
 | One on One with Vito Russo | Self (archive) | Movie | 2001 |
 | Playing Mona Lisa | Bennett | Movie | 2000 |
 | Common Ground | Don | Movie | 2000 |
| Common Ground | Writer | Movie | 2000 |
 | The Sissy Duckling | Elmer (voice) | Movie | 1999 |
| The Sissy Duckling | Writer | Movie | 1999 |
 | Double Platinum | Gary Millstein | Movie | 1999 |
 | Jump | Dish Macense | Movie | 1999 |
 | Family Guy | Buster Keaton (voice) | TV Series | 1999 |
| Family Guy | Tracy (voice) | TV Series | 1999 |
 | Hercules | Argus Panoptes (voice) | TV Series | 1998 |
 | Safe Men | Good Stuff Leo | Movie | 1998 |
 | Mulan | Yao (voice) | Movie | 1998 |
 | Kull the Conqueror | Juba | Movie | 1997 |
 | White Lies | Art Hoarder | Movie | 1997 |
| Three Little Pigs | The Big Bad Wolf (voice) | Movie | 1997 | |
 | Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas | Easter Bunny | Movie | 1996 |
 | Everything Relative | The Moyle | Movie | 1996 |
 | Independence Day | Marty Gilbert | Movie | 1996 |
 | The Making of 'Independence Day' | Self | Movie | 1996 |
 | The Celluloid Closet | Self | Movie | 1996 |
 | Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde | Yves DuBois | Movie | 1995 |
 | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | Mrs. Leaperman (voice) | TV Series | 1995 |
 | Bullets Over Broadway | Sid Loomis | Movie | 1994 |
 | Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest | Self | Movie | 1994 |
 | Daddy's Girls | Dennis Sinclair | TV Series | 1994 |
 | Ellen | Harvey Fierstein | TV Series | 1994 |
 | Mrs. Doubtfire | Frank | Movie | 1993 |
 | Intimate Portrait | Self | TV Series | 1993 |
 | The Harvest | Bob Lakin | Movie | 1993 |
 | An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends | Self | Movie | 1993 |
 | The Larry Sanders Show | Harvey Fierstein | TV Series | 1992 |
 | In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story | Andrew | Movie | 1991 |
 | The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? | Self | Movie | 1990 |
 | The Simpsons | Karl (voice) | TV Series | 1989 |
 | Torch Song Trilogy | Arnold Beckoff | Movie | 1988 |
| Torch Song Trilogy | Theatre Play | Movie | 1988 |
| Torch Song Trilogy | Screenplay | Movie | 1988 |
 | Tidy Endings | Arthur | Movie | 1988 |
| Tidy Endings | Theatre Play | Movie | 1988 |
| Tidy Endings | Teleplay | Movie | 1988 |
 | MaMa's Pushcart | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1988 |
 | Apology | The derelict | Movie | 1986 |
 | Garbo Talks | Bernie Whitlock | Movie | 1984 |
 | The Times of Harvey Milk | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 1984 |
 | Murder, She Wrote | Stan Hatter | TV Series | 1984 |
 | Miami Vice | Benedict | TV Series | 1984 |
 | The Demon Murder Case | The Demon (voice) | Movie | 1983 |
 | Cheers | Mark Newberger | TV Series | 1982 |
 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) | TV Series | 1975 |
 | Tony Awards | Self - Winner | TV Series | 1956 |