Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 06, 1952
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Credits
87 titles
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
Filmography
Commitment to Life
Self (archive footage)
Bros
Louis
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Performer
Disarm Hate
Narrator
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Self
Kinky Boots: The Musical
Musical
Funny Girl
Musical
Animal Crackers
Esmerelda (voice)
Big Mouth
Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive)
Newsies
Musical
Hairspray Live!
Edna Turnblad
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Self
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Self (Archive)
The Wiz Live!
Writer
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Self
BoJack Horseman
Harvey Fierstein (voice)
Trailblazer Honors
Self - Honoree
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
Russian Broadway Shut Down
Foodfight!
Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Smash
Harvey Fierstein
The Good Wife
Judge Francis Flamm
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
Nurse Jackie
John Decker
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Self
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Heat Miser
Farce of the Penguins
Sheila (voice)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Host
How I Met Your Mother
Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Self - Host
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Self
Mulan II
Yao (voice)
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Self
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
Self (uncredited)
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Self (voice)
Duplex
Kenneth
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Self
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
Self
Death to Smoochy
Merv Green
Rescued from the Closet
Self
One on One with Vito Russo
Self (archive)
Playing Mona Lisa
Bennett
Common Ground
Don
The Sissy Duckling
Elmer (voice)
Double Platinum
Gary Millstein
Jump
Dish Macense
Family Guy
Buster Keaton (voice)