Harvey Fierstein
Birthday
1954/06/06 (70 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Also know as
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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.
Acting
(1997) White Lies
as Art Hoarder
(2004) Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
as Self
(2022) Bros
as Louis
(1999) Jump
as Dish Macense
(1983) The Demon Murder Case
as The Demon (voice)
(1997) Three Little Pigs
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
(2004) Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self (voice)
(2006) The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Heat Miser
(1994) Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
as ---
(1990) The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
as Self
(1993) An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
as Self
(2004) Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
as Self
(2006) The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Host
(2002) Death to Smoochy
as Merv Green
(2003) The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
as Self
(2012) Foodfight!
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
(2019) Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
as Himself
(2004) Mulan II
as Yao (voice)
(1998) Safe Men
as Good Stuff Leo
(1996) Everything Relative
as The Moyle
(1994) Bullets Over Broadway
as Sid Loomis
(1988) Torch Song Trilogy
as Arnold Beckoff
(1988) MaMa's Pushcart
as ---
(2007) ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
as Self
(2007) Words and Music by Jerry Herman
as Himself
(2006) Farce of the Penguins
as Sheila (voice)
(2000) Common Ground
as Don
(2017) Animal Crackers
as Esmerelda (voice)
(1998) Mulan
as Yao (voice)
(1997) Kull the Conqueror
as Juba
(2015) The Making of the Wiz Live!
as Self
(2016) Hairspray Live!
as Edna Turnblad
(1993) Mrs. Doubtfire
as Frank
(1984) The Times of Harvey Milk
as Narrator (voice)
(1996) Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
as Easter Bunny
(1996) The Celluloid Closet
as Self
(2003) Duplex
as Kenneth
(1996) Independence Day
as Marty Gilbert
(1988) Tidy Endings
as Arthur
(1995) Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
as Yves DuBois
(1993) The Harvest
as Bob Lakin
(2005) Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Self - Host
(2000) Playing Mona Lisa
as Bennett
(1986) Apology
as The derelict
(1984) Garbo Talks
as Bernie Whitlock
(1999) Double Platinum
as Gary Millstein
(1999) The Sissy Duckling
as Elmer (voice)
(1996) The Making of 'Independence Day'
as Self
(2020) Disarm Hate
as Narrator
(2014) Russian Broadway Shut Down
as ---
(2001) Rescued from the Closet
as Self
(2002) Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
as Self
(2005) How I Met Your Mother
as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
(2016) Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
as Self
(1999) Family Guy
as Buster Keaton (voice)
(1993) Intimate Portrait
as Self
(1998) Hercules
as Argus Panoptes (voice)
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
(2014) Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
(1995) Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
(2009) Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
(2014) Trailblazer Honors
as Self - Honoree
(1994) Daddy's Girls
as Dennis Sinclair
(1984) Miami Vice
as ---
(1989) The Simpsons
as Karl (voice)
(1999) Family Guy
as Tracy (voice)
(2019) The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
(1975) Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
(2012) Smash
as Harvey Fierstein
(2014) BoJack Horseman
as Harvey Fierstein (voice)
(2017) Big Mouth
as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
(1982) Cheers
as Mark Newberger
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Stan Hatter
(1994) Ellen
as Harvey Fierstein
(2009) The Good Wife
as Judge Francis Flamm