Harvey Fierstein
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.
81 acting credits
Acting · 81
The Simpsons
1989
Family Guy
1999
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
How I Met Your Mother
2005
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Good Wife
2009
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Cheers
1982
Miami Vice
1984
BoJack Horseman
2014
Tony Awards
1956
Smash
2012
Big Mouth
2017
Hercules
1998
Ellen
1994
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
Intimate Portrait
1993
Nurse Jackie
2009
Mulan
1998
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Independence Day
1996
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
Mrs. Doubtfire
1993
Mulan II
2004
Trailblazer Honors
2014
Bullets Over Broadway
1994
Duplex
2003
Animal Crackers
2018
Bros
2022
Death to Smoochy
2002
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
Safe Men
1998
Kull the Conqueror
1997
Daddy's Girls
1994
Foodfight!
2012
The Celluloid Closet
1996
Hairspray Live!
2016
Farce of the Penguins
2006
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
The Making of 'Independence Day'
1996
Common Ground
2000
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
1995
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
Apology
1986
Jump
1999
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
Rescued from the Closet
2001
White Lies
1997
Garbo Talks
1984
Commitment to Life
2023
Playing Mona Lisa
2000
Torch Song Trilogy
1988
Double Platinum
1999
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
2004
The Harvest
1993
The Sissy Duckling
1999
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
2002
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
The Demon Murder Case
1983
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Everything Relative
1996
The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?
1990
An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends
1993
Three Little Pigs
1997
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
Tidy Endings
1988
Disarm Hate
2020
MaMa's Pushcart
1988
In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story
1991