Harvey Fierstein
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
White Lies
as Art Hoarder
1997
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
as Self
2004
Bros
as Louis
2022
Jump
as Dish Macense
1999
The Demon Murder Case
as The Demon (voice)
1983
Three Little Pigs
as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
1997
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self (voice)
2004
The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Heat Miser
2006
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
as Self
1994
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
as Self
1990
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
as Self
1993
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
as Self
2004
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Host
2006
Death to Smoochy
as Merv Green
2002
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
as Self
2003
Foodfight!
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
2012
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
as Self
2019
Mulan II
as Yao (voice)
2004
Safe Men
as Good Stuff Leo
1998
Everything Relative
as The Moyle
1996
TV Appearances
How I Met Your Mother
as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
2005
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
as Self
2016
Family Guy
as Buster Keaton (voice)
1999
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
Hercules
as Argus Panoptes (voice)
1998
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
1995
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
Trailblazer Honors
as Self - Honoree
2014
Daddy's Girls
as Dennis Sinclair
1994
Miami Vice
as Benedict
1984
The Simpsons
as Karl (voice)
1989