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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 6, 1952
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Harvey Fierstein
1.1 Popularity
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
6.7
Louis
Bros
2022
0.0
Performer
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020
1.0
Narrator
Disarm Hate
2020
7.8
skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
6.5
Self
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
7.6
Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
Big Mouth
2017
6.3
Esmerelda (voice)
Animal Crackers
2017
7.3
Edna Turnblad
Hairspray Live!
2016
5.9
Self
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016
0.0
Self (Archive)
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
Credits
Bros
as Louis
2022
6.7
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
as Performer
2020
0.0
Disarm Hate
as Narrator
2020
1.0
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
2019
7.8
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
as Self
2019
6.5
Big Mouth
as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
2017
7.6
Animal Crackers
as Esmerelda (voice)
2017
6.3
Hairspray Live!
as Edna Turnblad
2016
7.3
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
as Self
2016
5.9
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
as Self (Archive)
2015
0.0
The Making of the Wiz Live!
as Self
2015
0.0
BoJack Horseman
as Harvey Fierstein (voice)
2014
8.5
Trailblazer Honors
as Self - Honoree
2014
7.5
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
0.0
Foodfight!
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
2012
1.9
Smash
as Harvey Fierstein
2012
6.4
The Good Wife
as Judge Francis Flamm
2009
7.6
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
as Self
2007
7.2
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
as Self
2007
0.0
The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Heat Miser
2006
5.8
Farce of the Penguins
as Sheila (voz)
2006
4.1
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Host
2006
0.0
How I Met Your Mother
as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
2005
8.1
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Self - Host
2005
7.2
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
as Self
2004
2.0
Mulan II
as Yao (voice)
2004
6.5
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
as Self
2004
2.6
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self (voice)
2004
7.0
Duplex
as Kenneth
2003
6.1
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
as Self
2003
9.4
🎬
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
as Self
2002
0.0
Death to Smoochy
as Merv Green
2002
5.9
Rescued from the Closet
as Self
2001
6.0
Playing Mona Lisa
as Bennett
2000
5.7
Common Ground
as Don
2000
4.7
The Sissy Duckling
as Elmer (voice)
1999
4.7
Double Platinum
as Gary Millstein
1999
8.0
Jump
as Dish Macense
1999
1.5
Family Guy
as Buster Keaton (voice)
1999
7.4
Family Guy
as Tracy (voice)
1999
7.4
Hercules
as Argus Panoptes (voice)
1998
6.9
Safe Men
as Good Stuff Leo
1998
5.5
Mulan
as Yao (voice)
1998
7.9
Kull the Conqueror
as Juba
1997
5.0
White Lies
as Art Hoarder
1997
1.7
🎬
Three Little Pigs
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
1997
5.8
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
as Easter Bunny
1996
5.9
Everything Relative
as The Moyle
1996
1.6
The Making of 'Independence Day'
as Self
1996
5.9
Independence Day
as Marty Gilbert
1996
6.9
The Celluloid Closet
as Self
1996
7.1
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
as Yves DuBois
1995
4.6
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
1995
6.0
Bullets Over Broadway
as Sid Loomis
1994
7.1
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
as Self
1994
0.0
Daddy's Girls
as Dennis Sinclair
1994
0.0
Ellen
as Harvey Fierstein
1994
6.1
Mrs. Doubtfire
as Frank
1993
7.2
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
4.5
The Harvest
as Bob Lakin
1993
4.5
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
as Self
1993
0.0
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
as Andrew
1991
0.0
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
as Self
1990
0.0
The Simpsons
as Karl (voice)
1989
8.0
Torch Song Trilogy
as Arnold Beckoff
1988
7.3
Tidy Endings
as Arthur
1988
1.0
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
0.0
Apology
as The derelict
1986
4.3
Garbo Talks
as Bernie Whitlock
1984
6.2
The Times of Harvey Milk
as Narrator (voice)
1984
7.2
Murder, She Wrote
as Stan Hatter
1984
7.5
Miami Vice
as Benedict
1984
7.5
The Demon Murder Case
as The Demon (voice)
1983
5.9
Cheers
as Mark Newberger
1982
7.6
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
7.0
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.9