Acting credits
75
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Harvey Fierstein
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
1.1
Low visibility
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Movies: 57Series: 22Crew credits: 9
TMDB ID: 7420
IMDb ID: nm0001213
Known for: Acting
Born: June 6, 1952
Age: 73
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1975 - 2022
Years active: 48
Average TMDB rating: 6.57
Wikidata: Q446481
Other jobs
Musical (3)Writer (3)Teleplay (2)Theatre Play (1)
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Harvey Fierstein.
6.7
Bros
as Louis
2022 Movie
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
as Performer
2020 Movie
1.0
Disarm Hate
as Narrator
2020 Movie
6.5
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
as Self
2019 Movie
7.7
Kinky Boots: The Musical
Musical
2019 Movie
8.0
Funny Girl
Musical
2018 Movie
6.3
Animal Crackers
as Esmerelda (voice)
2017 Movie
8.0
Newsies
Musical
2017 Movie
7.3
Hairspray Live!
as Edna Turnblad
2016 Movie
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
as Self (Archive)
2015 Movie
7.0
The Wiz Live!
Writer
2015 Movie
The Making of the Wiz Live!
as Self
2015 Movie
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014 Movie
1.9
Foodfight!
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
2012 Movie
7.2
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
as Self
2007 Movie
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
as Self
2007 Movie
5.8
The Year Without a Santa Claus
as Heat Miser
2006 Movie
4.1
Farce of the Penguins
as Sheila (voz)
2006 Movie
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Host
2006 Movie
7.2
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Self - Host
2005 Movie
2.0
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
as Self
2004 Movie
6.5
Mulan II
as Yao (voice)
2004 Movie
2.6
Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
as Self
2004 Movie
7.0
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self (voice)
2004 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Harvey Fierstein.
7.8
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice) • 7 eps
2019 Series
7.6
Big Mouth
as Older Guy Town Resident (voice) • 1 eps
2017 Series
5.9
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
as Self • 1 eps
2016 Series
8.5
BoJack Horseman
as Harvey Fierstein (voice) • 1 eps
2014 Series
7.5
Trailblazer Honors
as Self - Honoree • 1 eps
2014 Series
5.3
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
6.4
Smash
as Harvey Fierstein • 1 eps
2012 Series
7.6
The Good Wife
as Judge Francis Flamm • 1 eps
2009 Series
5.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest • 3 eps
2009 Series
8.1
How I Met Your Mother
as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice) • 1 eps
2005 Series
7.4
Family Guy
as Buster Keaton (voice) • 1 eps
1999 Series
6.9
Hercules
as Argus Panoptes (voice) • 1 eps
1998 Series
6.0
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Mrs. Leaperman (voice) • 1 eps
1995 Series
Daddy's Girls
as Dennis Sinclair • 13 eps
1994 Series
6.1
Ellen
as Harvey Fierstein • 1 eps
1994 Series
4.5
Intimate Portrait
as Self • 1 eps
1993 Series
7.7
The Larry Sanders Show
as Harvey Fierstein • 1 eps
1992 Series
8.0
The Simpsons
as Karl (voice) • 1 eps
1989 Series
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Stan Hatter • 1 eps
1984 Series
7.5
Miami Vice
as Benedict • 1 eps
1984 Series
7.5
Cheers
as Mark Newberger • 1 eps
1982 Series
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited) • 1 eps
1975 Series