Harvey Fierstein
Born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA — Jun 06 1952
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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 i…
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Harvey Fierstein's Credits
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The Simpsons
Karl (voice)
Family Guy
Buster Keaton (voice)
Cheers
Mark Newberger
How I Met Your Mother
Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
The Good Wife
Judge Francis Flamm
Murder, She Wrote
Stan Hatter
Miami Vice
Benedict
BoJack Horseman
Harvey Fierstein (voice)
Intimate Portrait
Self
Ellen
Harvey Fierstein
Hercules
Argus Panoptes (voice)
Big Mouth
Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
The Larry Sanders Show
Harvey Fierstein
Smash
Harvey Fierstein
Mulan
Yao (voice)
Independence Day
Marty Gilbert
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
Mrs. Doubtfire
Frank
Trailblazer Honors
Self - Honoree
Mulan II
Yao (voice)
Bros
Louis
Daddy's Girls
Dennis Sinclair
Duplex
Kenneth
Bullets Over Broadway
Sid Loomis
Animal Crackers
Esmerelda (voice)
Foodfight!
Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Safe Men
Good Stuff Leo
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Host
The Celluloid Closet
Self
Death to Smoochy
Merv Green
Newsies
Writing
Jump
Dish Macense
Garbo Talks
Bernie Whitlock
Kull the Conqueror
Juba
Apology
The derelict
Rescued from the Closet
Self
Farce of the Penguins
Sheila (voz)
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Self
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Self - Host
The Making of 'Independence Day'
Self
Common Ground
Don
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
Yves DuBois
Hairspray Live!
Edna Turnblad
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Self
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Easter Bunny
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Heat Miser
Double Platinum
Gary Millstein
The Times of Harvey Milk
Narrator (voice)
The Demon Murder Case
The Demon (voice)
Funny Girl
Writing
Playing Mona Lisa
Bennett
Kinky Boots: The Musical
Writing
Torch Song Trilogy
Arnold Beckoff
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Self
The Sissy Duckling
Elmer (voice)
White Lies
Art Hoarder
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Self
Russian Broadway Shut Down
The Harvest
Bob Lakin
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
Self
Tidy Endings
Arthur
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Self
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Self
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Self (Archive)
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Performer
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
Self
Everything Relative
The Moyle
The Wiz Live!
Writing
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
Andrew
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Self (voice)
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Self
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
Self
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
Self
MaMa's Pushcart
Disarm Hate
Narrator
Three Little Pigs
The Big Bad Wolf (voice)