Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein

69 · Born: Jun 6, 1954

Personal Details

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Born Jun 6, 1954 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Parents
  • Jacqueline Harriet née Gilbert
  • Irving 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.

Career

2020
Disarm Hate
Disarm Hate as Narrator
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2019
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
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2018
Big Mouth
Big Mouth as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
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2017
BoJack Horseman
BoJack Horseman as Harvey Fierstein (voice)
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2016
Hairspray Live!
Hairspray Live! as Edna Turnblad
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2009
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
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2007
Family Guy
Family Guy as Tracy (voice)
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2006
The Year Without a Santa Claus
The Year Without a Santa Claus as Heat Miser
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2005
Great Performances
Great Performances as Host
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2004
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Mulan II
Mulan II as Yao
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2003
Duplex
Duplex as Kenneth
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2002
Death to Smoochy
Death to Smoochy as Merv Green
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2000
Playing Mona Lisa
Playing Mona Lisa as Bennett
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1999
The 3 Little Pigs
The 3 Little Pigs as The Big Bad Wolf
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The Sissy Duckling
The Sissy Duckling as Elmer (voice)
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Double Platinum
Double Platinum as Gary Millstein
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1998
Safe Men
Safe Men as Leo
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Mulan
Mulan as Yao (voice)
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1997
White Lies
White Lies as Art Hoarder
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Kull the Conqueror
Kull the Conqueror as Juba
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Elmo Saves Christmas
Elmo Saves Christmas as Easter Bunny
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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
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1996
Independence Day
Independence Day as Marty Gilbert
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Everything Relative
Everything Relative as The Moyle
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1995
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde as Yves DuBois
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1994
Bullets Over Broadway
Bullets Over Broadway as Sid Loomis
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Daddy's Girls
Daddy's Girls as Dennis Sinclair
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1993
The Harvest
The Harvest as Bob Lakin
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Mrs. Doubtfire
Mrs. Doubtfire as Frank
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1990
The Simpsons
The Simpsons as Karl (voice)
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1988
Tidy Endings
Tidy Endings as Arthur
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Torch Song Trilogy
Torch Song Trilogy as Arnold Beckoff
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1986
Apology
Apology as The Derelict
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1985
Miami Vice
Miami Vice
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1984
Garbo Talks
Garbo Talks as Bernie Whitlock
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The Times of Harvey Milk
The Times of Harvey Milk as Narrator (voice)
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1983
The Demon Murder Case
The Demon Murder Case as The Demon (voice)
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2019
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2015
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2004
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2001
Rescued from the Closet
Intimate Portrait
Intimate Portrait
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1996
The Making of 'Independence Day'
The Celluloid Closet
2015
The Wiz Live!
The Wiz Live! as Writer
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2000
Common Ground
Common Ground as Writer
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1999
The Sissy Duckling
The Sissy Duckling as Writer
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1988
Torch Song Trilogy
Torch Song Trilogy as Screenplay
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