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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

90

Gender

Male

Birthday

1952-06-06 (73 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As

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

White Lies

1997

White Lies

as

Art Hoarder

Bros

2022

Bros

as

Louis

Jump

1999

Jump

as

Dish Macense

The Demon Murder Case

1983

The Demon Murder Case

as

The Demon (voice)

Three Little Pigs

1997

Three Little Pigs

as

The Big Bad Wolf (voice)

Death to Smoochy

2002

Death to Smoochy

as

Merv Green

Foodfight!

2012

Foodfight!

as

Fat Cat Burglar (voice)

Mulan II

2004

Mulan II

as

Yao (voice)

Safe Men

1998

Safe Men

as

Good Stuff Leo

Everything Relative

1996

Everything Relative

as

The Moyle

Bullets Over Broadway

1994

Bullets Over Broadway

as

Sid Loomis

Torch Song Trilogy

1988

Torch Song Trilogy

as

Arnold Beckoff

Farce of the Penguins

2006

Farce of the Penguins

as

Sheila (voice)

Common Ground

2000

Common Ground

as

Don

Animal Crackers

2017

Animal Crackers

as

Esmerelda (voice)

Mulan

1998

Mulan

as

Yao (voice)

Hairspray Live!

2016

Hairspray Live!

as

Edna Turnblad

Mrs. Doubtfire

1993

Mrs. Doubtfire

as

Frank

The Times of Harvey Milk

1984

The Times of Harvey Milk

as

Narrator (voice)

Duplex

2003

Duplex

as

Kenneth

Independence Day

1996

Independence Day

as

Marty Gilbert

Tidy Endings

1988

Tidy Endings

as

Arthur

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

1995

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

as

Yves DuBois

The Harvest

1993

The Harvest

as

Bob Lakin

Playing Mona Lisa

2000

Playing Mona Lisa

as

Bennett

Apology

1986

Apology

as

The derelict

Garbo Talks

1984

Garbo Talks

as

Bernie Whitlock

Double Platinum

1999

Double Platinum

as

Gary Millstein

The Sissy Duckling

1999

The Sissy Duckling

as

Elmer (voice)

Disarm Hate

2020

Disarm Hate

as

Narrator

How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother

as

Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)

Family Guy

Family Guy

as

Buster Keaton (voice)

Hercules

Hercules

as

Argus Panoptes (voice)

Tony Awards

Tony Awards

as

Self - Winner

Trailblazer Honors

Trailblazer Honors

as

Self - Honoree

Daddy's Girls

Daddy's Girls

as

Dennis Sinclair

The Simpsons

The Simpsons

as

Karl (voice)

Family Guy

Family Guy

as

Tracy (voice)

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

as

Self - Cameo (uncredited)

Smash

Smash

as

Harvey Fierstein

BoJack Horseman

BoJack Horseman

as

Harvey Fierstein (voice)

Big Mouth

Big Mouth

as

Older Guy Town Resident (voice)

Cheers

Cheers

as

Mark Newberger

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote

as

Stan Hatter

Ellen

Ellen

as

Harvey Fierstein

The Good Wife

The Good Wife

as

Judge Francis Flamm

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

as

skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)

Production

Crew

Directing