Birthday: Jun 06, 1954
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

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.

Filmography

Movie	Cast	Year
White Lies	Art Hoarder	1997
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde	Self	2004
Bros	Louis	2022
Jump	Dish Macense	1999
The Demon Murder Case	The Demon (voice)	1983
Three Little Pigs	The Big Bad Wolf (voice)	1997
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me	Self (voice)	2004
The Year Without a Santa Claus	Heat Miser	2006
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest		1994
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?	Self	1990
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends	Self	1993
Duplex	Kenneth	2003
Mulan	Yao (voice)	1998
Kull the Conqueror	Juba	1997
Independence Day	Marty Gilbert	1996
Foodfight!	Fat Cat Burglar (voice)	2012
Farce of the Penguins	Sheila (voice)	2006
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis	Self	2004
Common Ground	Don	2000
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards	Self - Host	2005
Playing Mona Lisa	Bennett	2000
Hairspray Live!	Edna Turnblad	2016
The Making of the Wiz Live!	Self	2015
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series	Self	2003
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas	Easter Bunny	1996
Everything Relative	The Moyle	1996
The Celluloid Closet	Self	1996
Mulan II	Yao (voice)	2004
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde	Yves DuBois	1995
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway	Self	2007
Words and Music by Jerry Herman	Himself	2007
Safe Men	Good Stuff Leo	1998
Bullets Over Broadway	Sid Loomis	1994
Torch Song Trilogy	Arnold Beckoff	1988
Animal Crackers	Esmerelda (voice)	2017
Garbo Talks	Bernie Whitlock	1984
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays	Host	2006
Death to Smoochy	Merv Green	2002
The Harvest	Bob Lakin	1993
MaMa's Pushcart		1988
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles	Himself	2019
Apology	The derelict	1986
Mrs. Doubtfire	Frank	1993
The Times of Harvey Milk	Narrator (voice)	1984
Tidy Endings	Arthur	1988
Double Platinum	Gary Millstein	1999
The Sissy Duckling	Elmer (voice)	1999
The Making of 'Independence Day'	Self	1996
Disarm Hate	Narrator	2020
Russian Broadway Shut Down		2014
Rescued from the Closet	Self	2001
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary	Self	2002
Series	Cast	Year
How I Met Your Mother	Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)	2005
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee	Self	2016
Family Guy	Buster Keaton (voice)	1999
Intimate Portrait	Self	1993
Hercules	Argus Panoptes (voice)	1998
Tony Awards	Self - Winner	1956
Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	2014
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	Mrs. Leaperman (voice)	1995
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	2009
Trailblazer Honors	Self - Honoree	2014
Family Guy	Tracy (voice)	1999
Daddy's Girls	Dennis Sinclair	1994
The Simpsons	Karl (voice)	1989
Miami Vice		1984
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance	skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)	2019
Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)	1975
Smash	Harvey Fierstein	2012
BoJack Horseman	Harvey Fierstein (voice)	2014
Big Mouth	Older Guy Town Resident (voice)	2017
Cheers	Mark Newberger	1982
Murder, She Wrote	Stan Hatter	1984
Ellen	Harvey Fierstein	1994
The Good Wife	Judge Francis Flamm	2009

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