Acting
Harvey Fierstein
Also Known As: Harvey Forbes Fierstein
Birth Date
June 6, 1952
(74 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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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.
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009 • 3 episodes
The Simpsons
Karl (voice)
1989 • 1 episode
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014 • 1 episode
Family Guy
Buster Keaton (voice)
1999 • 1 episode
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975 • 1 episode
How I Met Your Mother
Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
2005 • 1 episode
Murder, She Wrote
Stan Hatter
1984 • 1 episode
The Good Wife
Judge Francis Flamm
2009 • 1 episode
Cheers
Mark Newberger
1982 • 1 episode
BoJack Horseman
Harvey Fierstein (voice)
2014 • 1 episode
Miami Vice
Benedict
1984 • 1 episode
Tony Awards
Self - Winner
1956 • 1 episode
Big Mouth
Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
2017 • 1 episode
Nurse Jackie
John Decker
2009 • 1 episode
Intimate Portrait
Self
1993 • 1 episode
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Self
2016 • 1 episode
The Larry Sanders Show
Harvey Fierstein
1992 • 1 episode
Ellen
Harvey Fierstein
1994 • 1 episode
Hercules
Argus Panoptes (voice)
1998 • 1 episode
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Mrs. Leaperman (voice)
1995 • 1 episode