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Harvey Fierstein
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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 g…
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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
Movies and shows, newest first
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2023
Commitment to Life
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Bros
Movie Louis
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2020
Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway
Movie Performer
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2020
Disarm Hate
Movie Narrator
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2019
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
TV show skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)
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2019
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Movie Self
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2019
Kinky Boots: The Musical
Movie Musical
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2018
Funny Girl
Movie Musical
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2018
Animal Crackers
Movie Esmerelda (voice)
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2017
Big Mouth
TV show Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
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2017
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Movie Self (archive)
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2017
Newsies
Movie Musical
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2016
Hairspray Live!
Movie Edna Turnblad
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2016
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
TV show Self
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2015
Another Take on… Mrs. Doubtfire
Movie Self (Archive)
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2015
The Wiz Live!
Movie Writer
More credits
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2015
The Making of the Wiz Live!
Movie Self
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2014
BoJack Horseman
TV show Harvey Fierstein (voice)
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2014
Trailblazer Honors
TV show Self - Honoree
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self
- 2014
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2012
Foodfight!
Movie Fat Cat Burglar (voice)
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2012
Smash
TV show Harvey Fierstein
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2009
The Good Wife
TV show Judge Francis Flamm
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2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV show Self - Guest
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2009
Nurse Jackie
TV show John Decker
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2007
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Movie Self
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2007
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
Movie Self
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2006
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Movie Heat Miser
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2006
Farce of the Penguins
Movie Sheila (voice)
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2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Movie Host
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2005
How I Met Your Mother
TV show Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
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2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Movie Self - Host
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2004
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Movie Self
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2004
Mulan II
Movie Yao (voice)
- 2004
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2004
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!
Movie Self (uncredited)
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2004
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Movie Self (voice)
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2003
Duplex
Movie Kenneth
- 2003
