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