Harvey Fierstein

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.

Known For

The Simpsons

Karl (voice)

Family Guy

Buster Keaton (voice)

Family Guy

Tracy (voice)

How I Met Your Mother

Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Self - Guest

Saturday Night Live

Self - Cameo (uncredited)

The Good Wife

Judge Francis Flamm

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2022	Bros	Louis
2020	Disarm Hate	Narrator
2020	Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway	Performer
2019	Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles	Self
2017	Animal Crackers	Esmerelda (voice)
2016	Hairspray Live!	Edna Turnblad
2015	The Making of the Wiz Live!	Self
2015	Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire	Self (Archive)
2014	Russian Broadway Shut Down
2012	Foodfight!	Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
2007	ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway	Self
2007	Words and Music by Jerry Herman	Self
2006	The Year Without a Santa Claus	Heat Miser
2006	Farce of the Penguins	Sheila (voz)
2006	The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays	Host
2005	Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards	Self - Host
2004	Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde	Self
2004	Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me	Self (voice)
2004	Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis	Self
2004	Mulan II	Yao (voice)
2003	Duplex	Kenneth
2003	The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series	Self
2002	Death to Smoochy	Merv Green
2002	Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary	Self
2001	Rescued from the Closet	Self
2000	Common Ground	Don
2000	Playing Mona Lisa	Bennett
1999	Jump	Dish Macense
1999	Double Platinum	Gary Millstein
1999	The Sissy Duckling	Elmer (voice)
1998	Mulan	Yao (voice)
1998	Safe Men	Good Stuff Leo
1997	White Lies	Art Hoarder
1997	Three Little Pigs	The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
1997	Kull the Conqueror	Juba
1996	Independence Day	Marty Gilbert
1996	Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas	Easter Bunny
1996	Everything Relative	The Moyle
1996	The Celluloid Closet	Self
1996	The Making of 'Independence Day'	Self
1995	Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde	Yves DuBois
1994	Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and Protest
1994	Bullets Over Broadway	Sid Loomis
1993	An Evening with Lily Tomlin and Friends	Self
1993	The Harvest	Bob Lakin
1993	Mrs. Doubtfire	Frank
1991	In The Shadow Of Love: A Teen AIDS Story	Andrew
1990	The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?	Self
1988	Torch Song Trilogy	Arnold Beckoff
1988	MaMa's Pushcart
1988	Tidy Endings	Arthur
1986	Apology	The derelict
1984	Garbo Talks	Bernie Whitlock
1984	The Times of Harvey Milk	Narrator (voice)
1983	The Demon Murder Case	The Demon (voice)

Year	TV Show	Role
2019	The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance	skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
2017	Big Mouth	Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
2016	Full Frontal with Samantha Bee	Self
2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self
2014	Trailblazer Honors	Self - Honoree
2014	BoJack Horseman	Harvey Fierstein (voice)
2012	Smash	Harvey Fierstein
2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest
2009	The Good Wife	Judge Francis Flamm
2005	How I Met Your Mother	Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
1999	Family Guy	Buster Keaton (voice)
1999	Family Guy	Tracy (voice)
1998	Hercules	Argus Panoptes (voice)
1995	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
1994	Daddy's Girls	Dennis Sinclair
1994	Ellen	Harvey Fierstein
1993	Intimate Portrait	Self
1989	The Simpsons	Karl (voice)
1984	Miami Vice	Benedict
1984	Murder, She Wrote	Stan Hatter
1982	Cheers	Mark Newberger
1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1956	Tony Awards	Self - Winner