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.

Filmography

• 2022Bros — Louis
• 2020Disarm Hate — Narrator
• 2020Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway — Performer
• 2019Kinky Boots: The Musical — Musical
• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance — skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
• 2018Animal Crackers — Esmerelda (voice)
• 2018Funny Girl — Musical, Writer
• Big Mouth — Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
• 2017Newsies — Musical
• 2016Hairspray Live! — Edna Turnblad, Teleplay
• 2015The Wiz Live! — Writer
• BoJack Horseman — Harvey Fierstein (voice)
• 2014Russian Broadway Shut Down
• 2012Foodfight! — Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
• Smash — Harvey Fierstein
• Nurse Jackie — John Decker
• The Good Wife — Judge Francis Flamm
• 2006Farce of the Penguins — Sheila (voice)
• 2006The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays — Host
• 2006The Year Without a Santa Claus — Heat Miser
• How I Met Your Mother — Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
• 2004Mulan II — Yao (voice)
• 2003Duplex — Kenneth
• 2002Death to Smoochy — Merv Green
• 2000Common Ground — Don, Writer
• 2000Playing Mona Lisa — Bennett
• 1999Double Platinum — Gary Millstein
• Family Guy — Buster Keaton (voice), Tracy (voice)
• 1999Jump — Dish Macense
• 1999The Sissy Duckling — Elmer (voice), Writer
• Hercules — Argus Panoptes (voice)
• 1998Mulan — Yao (voice)
• 1998Safe Men — Good Stuff Leo
• 1997Kull the Conqueror — Juba
• 1997Three Little Pigs — The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
• 1997White Lies — Art Hoarder
• 1996Everything Relative — The Moyle
• 1996Independence Day — Marty Gilbert
• 1996Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas — Easter Bunny
• 1995Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde — Yves DuBois
• Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child — Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
• 1994Bullets Over Broadway — Sid Loomis
• Daddy's Girls — Dennis Sinclair
• Ellen — Harvey Fierstein
• 1993Mrs. Doubtfire — Frank
• 1993The Harvest — Bob Lakin
• The Larry Sanders Show — Harvey Fierstein
• 1991In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story — Andrew
• The Simpsons — Karl (voice)
• 1988MaMa's Pushcart
• 1988Tidy Endings — Arthur, Teleplay, Theatre Play
• 1988Torch Song Trilogy — Arnold Beckoff, Theatre Play, Screenplay
• 1986Apology — The derelict
• 1984Garbo Talks — Bernie Whitlock
• Miami Vice — Benedict
• Murder, She Wrote — Stan Hatter
• 1984The Times of Harvey Milk — Narrator (voice)
• 1983The Demon Murder Case — The Demon (voice)
• Cheers — Mark Newberger

Appearances as themselves (28)

• 2023Commitment to Life — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles — Self
• 2017The Fabulous Allan Carr — Self (archive footage)
• Full Frontal with Samantha Bee — Self
• 2015Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire — Self (Archive)
• 2015The Making of the Wiz Live! — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• Trailblazer Honors — Self - Honoree
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• 2007ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway — Self
• 2007Words and Music by Jerry Herman — Self
• 2005Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards — Self - Host
• 2004Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde — Self
• 2004Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me — Self (voice)
• 2004Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On! — Self (uncredited)
• 2004Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis — Self
• 2003The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series — Self
• 2002Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary — Self
• 2001One on One with Vito Russo — Self (archive)
• 2001Rescued from the Closet — Self
• 1996The Celluloid Closet — Self
• 1996The Making of 'Independence Day' — Self
• 1994Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest — Self
• 1993An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends — Self
• Intimate Portrait — Self
• 1990The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Cameo (uncredited)
• Tony Awards — Self - Winner