Harvey Fierstein

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1954-06-06 (70 years old)

Place of Birth Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Harvey Fierstein

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

Actor

2022
Bros

as Louis

2020
Disarm Hate

as Narrator

2019
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)

2017
Animal Crackers

as Esmerelda (voice)

2017
Big Mouth

as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)

2016
Hairspray Live!

as Edna Turnblad

2014
BoJack Horseman

as Harvey Fierstein (voice)

2014
Trailblazer Honors

as Self - Honoree

2012
Foodfight!

as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)

2012
Smash

as Harvey Fierstein

2009
The Good Wife

as Judge Francis Flamm

2006
Farce of the Penguins

as Sheila (voice)

2005
How I Met Your Mother

as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)

2004
Mulan II

as Yao (voice)

2003
Duplex

as Kenneth

2002
Death to Smoochy

as Merv Green

2000
2000
1999
The Sissy Duckling

as Elmer (voice)

1999
Double Platinum

as Gary Millstein

1999
Jump

as Dish Macense

1999
Family Guy

as Buster Keaton (voice)

1999
Family Guy

as Tracy (voice)

1998
Safe Men

as Good Stuff Leo

1998
Mulan

as Yao (voice)

1998
Hercules

as Argus Panoptes (voice)

1997
1997
White Lies

as Art Hoarder

1997
Three Little Pigs

as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)

1996
Everything Relative

as The Moyle

1996
Independence Day

as Marty Gilbert

1995
1994
Bullets Over Broadway

as Sid Loomis

1994
Daddy's Girls

as Dennis Sinclair

1994
Ellen

as Harvey Fierstein

1993
1993
The Harvest

as Bob Lakin

1993
1989
The Simpsons

as Karl (voice)

1988
Torch Song Trilogy

as Arnold Beckoff

1988
Tidy Endings

as Arthur

1986
Apology

as The derelict

1984
Garbo Talks

as Bernie Whitlock

1984
The Times of Harvey Milk

as Narrator (voice)

1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Stan Hatter

1983
The Demon Murder Case

as The Demon (voice)

1982
Cheers

as Mark Newberger

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

Writer

2018
Funny Girl

as Musical

2018
Funny Girl

as Writer

2017
Newsies

as Musical

2016
Hairspray Live!

as Teleplay

2015
The Wiz Live!

as Writer

2000
Common Ground

as Writer

1999
1988
Torch Song Trilogy

as Theatre Play

1988
Tidy Endings

as Teleplay

1988
Tidy Endings

as Theatre Play

1988
Torch Song Trilogy

as Screenplay