Actor profile

Harvey Fierstein

6th June 1952 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA Acting

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.

58 Movies 25 TV Shows 84 Credits

Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Commitment to Life poster

Commitment to Life 10th February 2023 as Self (archive footage)

Bros poster

Bros 30th September 2022 as Louis

Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway poster

Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway 13th July 2020 as Performer

Disarm Hate poster

Disarm Hate 15th March 2020 as Narrator

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles poster

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles 23rd August 2019 as Self

Animal Crackers poster

Animal Crackers 21st July 2018 as Esmerelda (voice)

The Fabulous Allan Carr poster

The Fabulous Allan Carr 19th May 2017 as Self (archive)

Hairspray Live! poster

Hairspray Live! 7th December 2016 as Edna Turnblad

Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire poster

Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire 30th December 2015 as Self (Archive)

The Making of the Wiz Live! poster

The Making of the Wiz Live! 25th November 2015 as Self

Russian Broadway Shut Down poster

Russian Broadway Shut Down 23rd January 2014

Foodfight! poster

Foodfight! 15th June 2012 as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway poster

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway 19th April 2007 as Self

Words and Music by Jerry Herman poster

Words and Music by Jerry Herman 1st April 2007 as Self

The Year Without a Santa Claus poster

The Year Without a Santa Claus 11th December 2006 as Heat Miser

Farce of the Penguins poster

Farce of the Penguins 1st December 2006 as Sheila (voice)

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays poster

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays 2nd May 2006 as Host

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

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards 7th August 2005 as Self - Host

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde poster

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde 27th December 2004 as Self

Mulan II poster

Mulan II 3rd November 2004 as Yao (voice)

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

Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis 5th May 2004 as Self

Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! poster

Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! 4th April 2004 as Self (uncredited)

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me poster

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me 24th February 2004 as Self (voice)

Duplex poster

Duplex 26th September 2003 as Kenneth

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series poster

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series 1st January 2003 as Self

Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary poster

Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary 17th September 2002 as Self

Death to Smoochy poster

Death to Smoochy 29th March 2002 as Merv Green

One on One with Vito Russo poster

One on One with Vito Russo 29th May 2001 as Self (archive)

Rescued from the Closet poster

Rescued from the Closet 29th May 2001 as Self

Playing Mona Lisa poster

Playing Mona Lisa 1st May 2000 as Bennett

Common Ground poster

Common Ground 29th January 2000 as Don

The Sissy Duckling poster

The Sissy Duckling 14th September 1999 as Elmer (voice)

Double Platinum poster

Double Platinum 16th May 1999 as Gary Millstein

Jump poster

Jump 17th April 1999 as Dish Macense

Safe Men poster

Safe Men 7th August 1998 as Good Stuff Leo

Mulan poster

Mulan 18th June 1998 as Yao (voice)

Kull the Conqueror poster

Kull the Conqueror 29th August 1997 as Juba

White Lies poster

White Lies 1st April 1997 as Art Hoarder

Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas poster

Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas 24th December 1996 as Easter Bunny

Everything Relative poster

Everything Relative 13th September 1996 as The Moyle

Independence Day poster

Independence Day 2nd July 1996 as Marty Gilbert

The Making of 'Independence Day' poster

The Making of 'Independence Day' 29th June 1996 as Self

The Celluloid Closet poster

The Celluloid Closet 15th March 1996 as Self

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde poster

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde 25th August 1995 as Yves DuBois

Bullets Over Broadway poster

Bullets Over Broadway 14th October 1994 as Sid Loomis

Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest poster

Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest 23rd September 1994 as Self

Mrs. Doubtfire poster

Mrs. Doubtfire 24th November 1993 as Frank

The Harvest poster

The Harvest 5th November 1993 as Bob Lakin

An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends poster

An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends 22nd January 1993 as Self

In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story poster

In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story 18th September 1991 as Andrew

The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? poster

The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? 31st August 1990 as Self

Torch Song Trilogy poster

Torch Song Trilogy 14th December 1988 as Arnold Beckoff

Tidy Endings poster

Tidy Endings 14th August 1988 as Arthur

MaMa's Pushcart poster

MaMa's Pushcart 1st January 1988

Apology poster

Apology 27th July 1986 as The derelict

Garbo Talks poster

Garbo Talks 12th October 1984 as Bernie Whitlock

The Times of Harvey Milk poster

The Times of Harvey Milk 7th October 1984 as Narrator (voice)

The Demon Murder Case poster

The Demon Murder Case 6th March 1983 as The Demon (voice)

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance poster

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance 30th August 2019 as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)

Big Mouth poster

Big Mouth 29th September 2017 as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee poster

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee 8th February 2016 as Self

BoJack Horseman poster

BoJack Horseman 22nd August 2014 as Harvey Fierstein (voice)

Trailblazer Honors poster

Trailblazer Honors 27th June 2014 as Self - Honoree

Late Night with Seth Meyers poster

Late Night with Seth Meyers 25th February 2014 as Self

Smash poster

Smash 6th February 2012 as Harvey Fierstein

The Good Wife poster

The Good Wife 22nd September 2009 as Judge Francis Flamm

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen poster

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen 16th July 2009 as Self - Guest

Nurse Jackie poster

Nurse Jackie 8th June 2009 as John Decker

How I Met Your Mother poster

How I Met Your Mother 19th September 2005 as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)

Family Guy poster

Family Guy 31st January 1999 as Buster Keaton (voice)

Family Guy poster

Family Guy 31st January 1999 as Tracy (voice)

Hercules poster

Hercules 31st August 1998 as Argus Panoptes (voice)

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child poster

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child 12th March 1995 as Mrs. Leaperman (voice)

Daddy's Girls poster

Daddy's Girls 21st September 1994 as Dennis Sinclair

Ellen poster

Ellen 29th March 1994 as Harvey Fierstein

Intimate Portrait poster

Intimate Portrait 14th November 1993 as Self

The Larry Sanders Show poster

The Larry Sanders Show 15th August 1992 as Harvey Fierstein

The Simpsons poster

The Simpsons 17th December 1989 as Karl (voice)

Murder, She Wrote poster

Murder, She Wrote 30th September 1984 as Stan Hatter

Miami Vice poster

Miami Vice 16th September 1984 as Benedict

Cheers poster

Cheers 30th September 1982 as Mark Newberger

Saturday Night Live poster

Saturday Night Live 11th October 1975 as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

Tony Awards poster

Tony Awards 1st April 1956 as Self - Winner