Commitment to Life
2023 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Harvey Fierstein
1952-06-06
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Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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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
Bros
2022 · Movie
as Louis
Disarm Hate
2020 · Movie
as Narrator
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020 · Movie
as Performer
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019 · Movie
as Self
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019 · TV Show
as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
Animal Crackers
2018 · Movie
as Esmerelda (voice)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017 · Movie
as Self (archive)
Big Mouth
2017 · TV Show
as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
Hairspray Live!
2016 · Movie
as Edna Turnblad
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016 · TV Show
as Self
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015 · Movie
as Self
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015 · Movie
as Self (Archive)
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · TV Show
as Self
Trailblazer Honors
2014 · TV Show
as Self - Honoree
BoJack Horseman
2014 · TV Show
as Harvey Fierstein (voice)
Foodfight!
2012 · Movie
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Smash
2012 · TV Show
as Harvey Fierstein
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · TV Show
as Self - Guest
The Good Wife
2009 · TV Show
as Judge Francis Flamm
Nurse Jackie
2009 · TV Show
as John Decker
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007 · Movie
as Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007 · Movie
as Self
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006 · Movie
as Heat Miser
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 · Movie
as Host
Farce of the Penguins
2006 · Movie
as Sheila (voice)
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005 · Movie
as Self - Host
How I Met Your Mother
2005 · TV Show
as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004 · Movie
as Self
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004 · Movie
as Self (voice)
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004 · Movie
as Self
Mulan II
2004 · Movie
as Yao (voice)
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
2004 · Movie
as Self (uncredited)
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003 · Movie
as Self
Duplex
2003 · Movie
as Kenneth
Death to Smoochy
2002 · Movie
as Merv Green
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002 · Movie
as Self
Rescued from the Closet
2001 · Movie
as Self
One on One with Vito Russo
2001 · Movie
as Self (archive)
Common Ground
2000 · Movie
as Don
Playing Mona Lisa
2000 · Movie
as Bennett
Jump
1999 · Movie
as Dish Macense
Double Platinum
1999 · Movie
as Gary Millstein
The Sissy Duckling
1999 · Movie
as Elmer (voice)
Family Guy
1999 · TV Show
as Buster Keaton (voice), Tracy (voice)
Safe Men
1998 · Movie
as Good Stuff Leo
Mulan
1998 · Movie
as Yao (voice)
Hercules
1998 · TV Show
as Argus Panoptes (voice)
White Lies
1997 · Movie
as Art Hoarder
No image
Three Little Pigs
1997 · Movie
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
Kull the Conqueror
1997 · Movie
as Juba
Everything Relative
1996 · Movie
as The Moyle
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996 · Movie
as Easter Bunny
The Celluloid Closet
1996 · Movie
as Self
Independence Day
1996 · Movie
as Marty Gilbert
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996 · Movie
as Self
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995 · Movie
as Yves DuBois
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · TV Show
as Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994 · Movie
as Self
Bullets Over Broadway
1994 · Movie
as Sid Loomis
Daddy's Girls
1994 · TV Show
as Dennis Sinclair
Ellen
1994 · TV Show
as Harvey Fierstein
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993 · Movie
as Self
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993 · Movie
as Frank
The Harvest
1993 · Movie
as Bob Lakin
Intimate Portrait
1993 · TV Show
as Self
The Larry Sanders Show
1992 · TV Show
as Harvey Fierstein
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991 · Movie
as Andrew
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990 · Movie
as Self
The Simpsons
1989 · TV Show
as Karl (voice)
Torch Song Trilogy
1988 · Movie
as Arnold Beckoff
MaMa's Pushcart
1988 · Movie
Tidy Endings
1988 · Movie
as Arthur
Apology
1986 · Movie
as The derelict
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984 · Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Garbo Talks
1984 · Movie
as Bernie Whitlock
Miami Vice
1984 · TV Show
as Benedict
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · TV Show
as Stan Hatter
The Demon Murder Case
1983 · Movie
as The Demon (voice)
Cheers
1982 · TV Show
as Mark Newberger
Saturday Night Live
1975 · TV Show
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Tony Awards
1956 · TV Show
as Self - Winner
Crew Credits
Kinky Boots: The Musical
2019 · Movie
Musical
Funny Girl
2018 · Movie
Musical, Writer
Newsies
2017 · Movie
Musical
Hairspray Live!
2016 · Movie
Teleplay
The Wiz Live!
2015 · Movie
Writer
Common Ground
2000 · Movie
Writer
The Sissy Duckling
1999 · Movie
Writer
Torch Song Trilogy
1988 · Movie
Theatre Play, Screenplay
Tidy Endings
1988 · Movie
Teleplay, Theatre Play
