Harvey Fierstein
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday6 June 1952 (74 years old)
Place of birthBrooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known credits87
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.
Commitment to Life
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Bros
2022 · Louis
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020 · Performer
Disarm Hate
2020 · Narrator
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019 · skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019 · Self
Kinky Boots: The Musical
2019 · Musical
Funny Girl
2018 · Musical
Funny Girl
2018 · Writer
Animal Crackers
2018 · Esmerelda (voice)
Big Mouth
2017 · Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017 · Self (archive)
Newsies
2017 · Musical
Hairspray Live!
2016 · Edna Turnblad
Hairspray Live!
2016 · Teleplay
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016 · Self
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015 · Self (Archive)
The Wiz Live!
2015 · Writer
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015 · Self
BoJack Horseman
2014 · Harvey Fierstein (voice)
Trailblazer Honors
2014 · Self - Honoree
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Foodfight!
2012 · Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Smash
2012 · Harvey Fierstein
The Good Wife
2009 · Judge Francis Flamm
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest
Nurse Jackie
2009 · John Decker
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007 · Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007 · Self
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006 · Heat Miser
Farce of the Penguins
2006 · Sheila (voice)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 · Host
How I Met Your Mother
2005 · Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005 · Self - Host
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004 · Self
Mulan II
2004 · Yao (voice)
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004 · Self
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
2004 · Self (uncredited)
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004 · Self (voice)
Duplex
2003 · Kenneth
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003 · Self
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002 · Self
Death to Smoochy
2002 · Merv Green
Rescued from the Closet
2001 · Self
One on One with Vito Russo
2001 · Self (archive)
Playing Mona Lisa
2000 · Bennett
Common Ground
2000 · Don
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