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Harvey Fierstein
Actor, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn June 6, 1954 (70 years)
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.
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Filmography
| 2022 | Bros · as Louis |
| 2020 | Disarm Hate · as Narrator |
| 2019 | The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (TV Series) · as Skekayuk (the Gourmand) (voice) |
| 2019 | |
| 2017 | Big Mouth (TV Series) · as Older Guy Town Resident (voice) |
| 2017 | Animal Crackers · as Esmerelda (voice) |
| 2016 | Hairspray Live! · as Edna Turnblad |
| 2014 | BoJack Horseman (TV Series) · as Harvey Fierstein (voice) |
| 2012 | Foodfight! · as Fat Cat Burglar (voice) |
| 2010 | Submissions Only (TV Series) · as Auditioner #5 |
| 2009 | The Good Wife (TV Series) · as Judge Francis Flamm |
| 2009 | Nurse Jackie (TV Series) · as John Decker |
| 2006 | The Year Without a Santa Claus · as Heat Miser |
| 2006 | Farce of the Penguins · as Sheila (voice) |
| 2005 | How I Met Your Mother (TV Series) · as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice) |
| 2004 | Mulan II · as Yao (voice) |
| 2003 | Duplex · as Kenneth |
| 2002 | The Sweatbox · as Huaca |
| 2002 | Death to Smoochy · as Merv Green |
| 2000 | Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years · as Marty Gilbert |
| 2000 | Playing Mona Lisa · as Bennett |
| 2000 | Common Ground · as Don |
| 1999 | The Sissy Duckling · as Elmer (voice) |
| 1999 | Double Platinum · as Gary Millstein |
| 1999 | Jump · as Dish Macense |
| 1999 | Family Guy (TV Series) · as Tracy (voice) |
| 1998 | Hercules (TV Series) · as Argus Panoptes (voice) |
| 1998 | Safe Men · as Good Stuff Leo |
| 1998 | Mulan · as Yao (voice) |
| 1998 | Mikhail Baryshnikov's Stories from My Childhood (TV Series) · as Grambo |
| 1997 | Fame L.A. (TV Series) · as Jeremy Pinter |
| 1997 | Kull the Conqueror · as Juba |
| 1997 | White Lies · as Art Hoarder |
| 1996 | Elmo Saves Christmas · as Easter Bunny |
| 1996 | Everything Relative · as The Moyle |
| 1996 | Independence Day · as Marty Gilbert |
| 1995 | Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde · as Yves Dubois |
| 1995 | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (TV Series) · as Mrs. Leaperman (voice) |
| 1994 | Bullets Over Broadway · as Sid Loomis |
| 1994 | Daddy's Girls (TV Series) · as Dennis Sinclair |
| 1993 | Mrs. Doubtfire · as Frank |
| 1993 | The Harvest · as Bob Lakin |
| 1989 | The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Karl (voice) |
| 1988 | Torch Song Trilogy · as Arnold Beckoff |
| 1988 | Tidy Endings · as Arthur |
| 1986 | Apology · as The Derelict |
| 1984 | Garbo Talks · as Bernie Whitlock |
| 1984 | The Times of Harvey Milk · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Stan Hatter |
| 1984 | Miami Vice (TV Series) |
| 1983 | The Demon Murder Case · as The Demon (voice) |
| 1982 | Cheers (TV Series) · as Mark Newberger |
| 1972 | The ABC Afterschool Special (TV Series) · as Andrew |