Acting credits
82
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Harvey Fierstein
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 62Series: 24Crew credits: 9
TMDB ID: 7420
IMDb ID: nm0001213
Known for: Acting
Born: June 6, 1952
Age: 74
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1956 - 2023
Years active: 68
Average TMDB rating: 6.6
Wikidata: Q446481
Also known as
Harvey Forbes Fierstein
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.
as Self (archive footage)
Commitment to Life
2023 • Movie
as Louis
Bros
2022 • Movie
as Performer
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
2020 • Movie
as Narrator
Disarm Hate
2020 • Movie
as Self
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019 • Movie
Musical
Kinky Boots: The Musical
2019 • Movie
Musical
Funny Girl
2018 • Movie
as Esmerelda (voice)
Animal Crackers
2018 • Movie
as Self (archive)
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017 • Movie
Musical
Newsies
2017 • Movie
as Edna Turnblad
Hairspray Live!
2016 • Movie
as Self (Archive)
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
2015 • Movie
Writer
The Wiz Live!
2015 • Movie
as Self
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015 • Movie
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014 • Movie
as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
Foodfight!
2012 • Movie
as Self
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
2007 • Movie
as Self
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
2007 • Movie
as Heat Miser
The Year Without a Santa Claus
2006 • Movie
as Sheila (voice)
Farce of the Penguins
2006 • Movie
as Host
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 • Movie
as Self - Host
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005 • Movie
as Self
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004 • Movie
as Yao (voice)
Mulan II
2004 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Harvey Fierstein.
as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice) • 7 eps
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019 • Series
as Older Guy Town Resident (voice) • 1 eps
Big Mouth
2017 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
2016 • Series
as Harvey Fierstein (voice) • 1 eps
BoJack Horseman
2014 • Series
as Self - Honoree • 1 eps
Trailblazer Honors
2014 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 • Series
as Harvey Fierstein • 1 eps
Smash
2012 • Series
as Judge Francis Flamm • 1 eps
The Good Wife
2009 • Series
as Self - Guest • 3 eps
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 • Series
as John Decker • 1 eps
Nurse Jackie
2009 • Series
as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice) • 1 eps
How I Met Your Mother
2005 • Series
as Buster Keaton (voice) • 1 eps
Family Guy
1999 • Series
as Argus Panoptes (voice) • 1 eps
Hercules
1998 • Series
as Mrs. Leaperman (voice) • 1 eps
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 • Series
as Dennis Sinclair • 13 eps
Daddy's Girls
1994 • Series
as Harvey Fierstein • 1 eps
Ellen
1994 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Intimate Portrait
1993 • Series
as Harvey Fierstein • 1 eps
The Larry Sanders Show
1992 • Series
as Karl (voice) • 1 eps
The Simpsons
1989 • Series
as Stan Hatter • 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
1984 • Series
as Benedict • 1 eps
Miami Vice
1984 • Series
as Mark Newberger • 1 eps
Cheers
1982 • Series
as Self - Cameo (uncredited) • 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
1975 • Series
as Self - Winner • 1 eps
Tony Awards
1956 • Series