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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1954-06-06 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

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.

Known For

Acting

2022

Bros as Louis

2020

Disarm Hate as Narrator

2019

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

2017

Animal Crackers as Esmerelda (voice)
Big Mouth as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)

2016

Hairspray Live! as Edna Turnblad

2015

2014

Trailblazer Honors as Self - Honoree
BoJack Horseman as Harvey Fierstein (voice)

2012

Foodfight! as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Smash as Harvey Fierstein

2009

The Good Wife as Judge Francis Flamm

2007

2006

Farce of the Penguins as Sheila (voice)

2005

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

2004

Mulan II as Yao (voice)

2003

Duplex as Kenneth

2002

Death to Smoochy as Merv Green

2001

2000

1999

Jump as Dish Macense
Double Platinum as Gary Millstein
The Sissy Duckling as Elmer (voice)
Family Guy as Buster Keaton (voice)
Family Guy as Tracy (voice)

1998

Mulan as Yao (voice)
Safe Men as Good Stuff Leo
Hercules as Argus Panoptes (voice)

1997

White Lies as Art Hoarder
Three Little Pigs as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)

1996

Independence Day as Marty Gilbert
Everything Relative as The Moyle

1995

1994

Bullets Over Broadway as Sid Loomis
Daddy's Girls as Dennis Sinclair
Ellen as Harvey Fierstein

1993

The Harvest as Bob Lakin

1990

1989

The Simpsons as Karl (voice)

1988

Torch Song Trilogy as Arnold Beckoff
Tidy Endings as Arthur

1986

Apology as The derelict

1984

Garbo Talks as Bernie Whitlock
The Times of Harvey Milk as Narrator (voice)
Murder, She Wrote as Stan Hatter

1983

The Demon Murder Case as The Demon (voice)

1982

Cheers as Mark Newberger

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Winner

Writing

2018

Funny Girl as Musical
Funny Girl as Writer

2017

Newsies as Musical

2016

Hairspray Live! as Teleplay

2015

The Wiz Live! as Writer

2000

Common Ground as Writer

1999

1988

Torch Song Trilogy as Theatre Play
Tidy Endings as Teleplay
Tidy Endings as Theatre Play
Torch Song Trilogy as Screenplay