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Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein

ActingBorn June 6, 1952 (age 74)Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Filmography

2023
Commitment to Life

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2022
Bros

as Louis

Movie
2020
Disarm Hate

as Narrator

Movie
2019
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)

TV
2018
Animal Crackers

as Esmerelda (voice)

Movie
2017
Big Mouth

as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)

TV
2017
The Fabulous Allan Carr

as Self (archive)

Movie
2016
Hairspray Live!

as Edna Turnblad

Movie
2015Movie
2014
BoJack Horseman

as Harvey Fierstein (voice)

TV
2014
Trailblazer Honors

as Self - Honoree

TV
2012
Foodfight!

as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)

Movie
2012
Smash

as Harvey Fierstein

TV
2009
The Good Wife

as Judge Francis Flamm

TV
2009
Nurse Jackie

as John Decker

TV
2006Movie
2006
Farce of the Penguins

as Sheila (voz)

Movie
2005
How I Met Your Mother

as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)

TV
2004
Mulan II

as Yao (voice)

Movie
2003
Duplex

as Kenneth

Movie
2002
Death to Smoochy

as Merv Green

Movie
2001Movie
2001Movie
2000Movie
2000Movie
1999
The Sissy Duckling

as Elmer (voice)

Movie
1999
Double Platinum

as Gary Millstein

Movie
1999
Jump

as Dish Macense

Movie
1999
Family Guy

as Buster Keaton (voice)

TV
1999
Family Guy

as Tracy (voice)

TV
1998
Hercules

as Argus Panoptes (voice)

TV
1998
Safe Men

as Good Stuff Leo

Movie
1998
Mulan

as Yao (voice)

Movie
1997Movie
1997
White Lies

as Art Hoarder

Movie
1997
Three Little Pigs

as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)

Movie
1996Movie
1996Movie
1996
Independence Day

as Marty Gilbert

Movie
1996Movie
1995Movie
1994Movie
1994
Daddy's Girls

as Dennis Sinclair

TV
1994
Ellen

as Harvey Fierstein

TV
1993Movie
1993TV
1993
The Harvest

as Bob Lakin

Movie
1992
The Larry Sanders Show

as Harvey Fierstein

TV
1989
The Simpsons

as Karl (voice)

TV
1988
Torch Song Trilogy

as Arnold Beckoff

Movie
1988
Tidy Endings

as Arthur

Movie
1986
Apology

as The derelict

Movie
1984
Garbo Talks

as Bernie Whitlock

Movie
1984
The Times of Harvey Milk

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Stan Hatter

TV
1984
Miami Vice

as Benedict

TV
1983
The Demon Murder Case

as The Demon (voice)

Movie
1982
Cheers

as Mark Newberger

TV
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

TV
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJune 6, 1952
Place of BirthBrooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Popularity1.0