Harvey Fierstein

ActorWriter Jun 6 (age 73) Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA 1956–2022 (66 year career)

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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 Boot…

Known For

Film

Mulan

Yao (voice)

Film

Independence Day

Marty Gilbert

Film

Mrs. Doubtfire

Frank

Film

Mulan II

Yao (voice)

Film

Bullets Over Broadway

Sid Loomis

Film

Duplex

Kenneth

Film

Bros

Louis

Film

Hairspray Live!

Edna Turnblad

Filmography

Acting (79)

Movies (55)

Bros

as Louis

Disarm Hate

as Narrator

Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway

2020

as Performer

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

as Self

Animal Crackers

as Esmerelda (voice)

Hairspray Live!

as Edna Turnblad

The Making of the Wiz Live!

2015

as Self

Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire

2015

as Self (Archive)

Russian Broadway Shut Down

2014

Foodfight!

2012

as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)

1.9

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

2007

as Self

7.2

Words and Music by Jerry Herman

2007

as Self

The Year Without a Santa Claus

2006

as Heat Miser

5.8

Farce of the Penguins

2006

as Sheila (voz)

4.1

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006

as Host

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

2005

as Self - Host

7.2

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

as Self (voice)

Mulan II

as Yao (voice)

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

2004

as Self

2.0

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

as Self

Duplex

as Kenneth

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series

as Self

Death to Smoochy

as Merv Green

Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary

2002

as Self

Rescued from the Closet

as Self

Common Ground

as Don

Playing Mona Lisa

as Bennett

Jump

as Dish Macense

The Sissy Duckling

as Elmer (voice)

Double Platinum

as Gary Millstein

Mulan

as Yao (voice)

Safe Men

as Good Stuff Leo

Kull the Conqueror

as Juba

Three Little Pigs

as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)

White Lies

as Art Hoarder

Independence Day

as Marty Gilbert

The Celluloid Closet

as Self

Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

as Easter Bunny

Everything Relative

as The Moyle

The Making of 'Independence Day'

1996

as Self

5.9

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

1995

as Yves DuBois

4.6

Bullets Over Broadway

1994

as Sid Loomis

7.1

Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest

1994

as Self

Mrs. Doubtfire

as Frank

The Harvest

as Bob Lakin

An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends

1993

as Self

In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story

1991

as Andrew

The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?

1990

as Self

Torch Song Trilogy

as Arnold Beckoff

Tidy Endings

as Arthur

MaMa's Pushcart

Apology

as The derelict

Garbo Talks

as Bernie Whitlock

The Times of Harvey Milk

1984

as Narrator (voice)

7.2

The Demon Murder Case

1983

as The Demon (voice)

5.9

Television (24)

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

2019

as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)

7.8

Big Mouth

2017

as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)

7.6

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

2016

as Self

5.9

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

as Self

5.2

BoJack Horseman

2014

as Harvey Fierstein (voice)

Trailblazer Honors

as Self - Honoree

Smash

as Harvey Fierstein

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009

as Self - Guest

5.0

The Good Wife

2009

as Judge Francis Flamm

7.6

How I Met Your Mother

2005

as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)

Family Guy

as Tracy (voice)

Hercules

as Argus Panoptes (voice)

6.9

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

1995

as Mrs. Leaperman (voice)

Ellen

as Harvey Fierstein

Daddy's Girls

as Dennis Sinclair

Intimate Portrait

1993

as Self

4.5

The Larry Sanders Show

as Harvey Fierstein

The Simpsons

as Karl (voice)

Murder, She Wrote

as Stan Hatter

Miami Vice

as Benedict

Cheers

as Mark Newberger

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

Crew (12)

Movies (12)

Kinky Boots: The Musical

2019

Musical

7.7

Kinky Boots: The Musical

Writer

Funny Girl

Musical

Funny Girl

Writer

Newsies

Musical

Hairspray Live!

Teleplay

The Wiz Live!

Writer

Common Ground

Writer

The Sissy Duckling

Writer

Torch Song Trilogy

Theatre Play

Tidy Endings

Teleplay

Tidy Endings

Theatre Play