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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Movies (63)
Commitment to Life
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Bros: Más que amigos
2022 · Louis
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020 · Performer
Disarm Hate
2020 · Narrator
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019 · Self
Kinky Boots: The Musical
2019 · Musical
Funny Girl
2018 · Musical, Writer
Galletas de Animalitos
2018 · Esmerelda (voice)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Newsies: El Musical de Broadway
2017 · Musical
Hairspray Live!
2016 · Edna Turnblad, Teleplay
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015 · Self (Archive)
The Wiz Live!
2015 · Writer
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015 · Self
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Foodfight!
2012 · Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
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
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)
Dúplex
2003 · Kenneth
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003 · Self
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002 · Self
Smoochy
2002 · Merv Green
Rescued from the Closet
2001 · Self
One on One with Vito Russo
2001 · Self (archive)
¿Quién quiere ser Mona Lisa?
2000 · Bennett
Historias Comunes
2000 · Don, Writer
The Sissy Duckling
1999 · Elmer (voice), Writer
Double Platinum
1999 · Gary Millstein
Jump
1999 · Dish Macense
Safe Men
1998 · Good Stuff Leo
Mulan
1998 · Yao (voice)
Kull the Conqueror
1997 · Juba
White Lies
1997 · Art Hoarder
Three Little Pigs
1997 · The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996 · Easter Bunny
Everything Relative
1996 · The Moyle
Independence Day
1996 · Marty Gilbert
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996 · Self
The Celluloid Closet
1996 · Self
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995 · Yves DuBois
Bullets Over Broadway
1994 · Sid Loomis
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994 · Self
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993 · Frank
The Harvest
1993 · Bob Lakin
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993 · Self
In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991 · Andrew
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990 · Self
Torch Song Trilogy
1988 · Arnold Beckoff, Theatre Play, Screenplay
Tidy Endings
1988 · Arthur, Teleplay, Theatre Play
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
Apology
1986 · The derelict
Garbo Talks
1984 · Bernie Whitlock
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984 · Narrator (voice)
The Demon Murder Case
1983 · The Demon (voice)
TV shows (24)
El cristal encantado: La era de la resistencia
2019 · skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
Big Mouth
2017 · Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016 · Self
BoJack Horseman
2014 · Harvey Fierstein (voice)
Trailblazer Honors
2014 · Self - Honoree
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self
Smash
2012 · Harvey Fierstein
La esposa ejemplar
2009 · Judge Francis Flamm
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest
Nurse Jackie
2009 · John Decker
Cómo conocí a tu madre
2005 · Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
Padre de Familia
1999 · Buster Keaton (voice), Tracy (voice)
Hercules
1998 · Argus Panoptes (voice)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
Daddy's Girls
1994 · Dennis Sinclair
Ellen
1994 · Harvey Fierstein
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Self
The Larry Sanders Show
1992 · Harvey Fierstein
Los Simpson
1989 · Karl (voice)
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Stan Hatter
Miami Vice
1984 · Benedict
Cheers
1982 · Mark Newberger
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Winner