
Harvey Fierstein
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.
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Full Filmography
All Credits (81)

Commitment to Life
as Self (archive footage)

Bros
as Louis

Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
as Performer

Disarm Hate
as Narrator

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
as Self

Animal Crackers
as Esmerelda (voice)

Big Mouth
as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)

The Fabulous Allan Carr
as Self (archive footage)

Hairspray Live!
as Edna Turnblad

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
as Self

Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
as Self (Archive)

The Making of the Wiz Live!
as Self

BoJack Horseman
as Harvey Fierstein (voice)

Trailblazer Honors
as Self - Honoree

Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self

Russian Broadway Shut Down
as Unknown

Foodfight!
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)

Smash
as Harvey Fierstein

The Good Wife
as Judge Francis Flamm

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest

Nurse Jackie
as John Decker

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
as Self

Words and Music by Jerry Herman
as Self

The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Heat Miser

Farce of the Penguins
as Sheila (voice)

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Host

How I Met Your Mother
as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)

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

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
as Self

Mulan II
as Yao (voice)

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

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

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self (voice)

Duplex
as Kenneth

The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
as Self

Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
as Self

Death to Smoochy
as Merv Green

Rescued from the Closet
as Self

One on One with Vito Russo
as Self (archive)

Playing Mona Lisa
as Bennett

Common Ground
as Don

The Sissy Duckling
as Elmer (voice)

Double Platinum
as Gary Millstein

Jump
as Dish Macense

Family Guy
as Buster Keaton (voice)

Family Guy
as Tracy (voice)

Hercules
as Argus Panoptes (voice)

Safe Men
as Good Stuff Leo

Kull the Conqueror
as Juba

White Lies
as Art Hoarder

Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
as Easter Bunny

Everything Relative
as The Moyle

The Making of 'Independence Day'
as Self

The Celluloid Closet
as Self

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
as Yves DuBois

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

Bullets Over Broadway
as Sid Loomis

Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
as Self

Daddy's Girls
as Dennis Sinclair

Ellen
as Harvey Fierstein

Mrs. Doubtfire
as Frank

Intimate Portrait
as Self

The Harvest
as Bob Lakin

An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
as Self

The Larry Sanders Show
as Harvey Fierstein

In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
as Andrew

The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
as Self

The Simpsons
as Karl (voice)

Torch Song Trilogy
as Arnold Beckoff

Tidy Endings
as Arthur

MaMa's Pushcart
as Unknown

Apology
as The derelict

Garbo Talks
as Bernie Whitlock

The Times of Harvey Milk
as Narrator (voice)

Murder, She Wrote
as Stan Hatter

Miami Vice
as Benedict

The Demon Murder Case
as The Demon (voice)

Cheers
as Mark Newberger

Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

Tony Awards
as Self - Winner

