Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein

Acting

Born June 6, 1952 · 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 gay drag-performer and…

Known for

Family Guy

Family Guy

1999

Family Guy

Family Guy

1999

The Simpsons

The Simpsons

1989

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

The Good Wife

The Good Wife

2009

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

1975

How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother

2005

Acting(83)

2023Commitment to LifeSelf (archive footage)

2020Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of BroadwayPerformer

2020Disarm HateNarrator

2019The Dark Crystal: Age of ResistanceskekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)

2019Fiddler: A Miracle of MiraclesSelf

2018Animal CrackersEsmerelda (voice)

2017Big MouthOlder Guy Town Resident (voice)

2017The Fabulous Allan CarrSelf (archive)

2016Hairspray Live!Edna Turnblad

2016Full Frontal with Samantha BeeSelf

2015Another Take on… Mrs. DoubtfireSelf (Archive)

2015The Making of the Wiz Live!Self

2014BoJack HorsemanHarvey Fierstein (voice)

2014Trailblazer HonorsSelf - Honoree

2014Late Night with Seth MeyersSelf

2014Russian Broadway Shut Down

2012Foodfight!Fat Cat Burglar (voice)

2012SmashHarvey Fierstein

2009The Good WifeJudge Francis Flamm

2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSelf - Guest

2009Nurse JackieJohn Decker

2007ShowBusiness: The Road to BroadwaySelf

2007Words and Music by Jerry HermanSelf

2006The Year Without a Santa ClausHeat Miser

2006Farce of the PenguinsSheila (voice)

2006The Best of The Tony Awards: The PlaysHost

2005How I Met Your MotherLily's Smoking Voice (voice)

2005Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony AwardsSelf - Host

2004Happy Birthday Oscar WildeSelf

2004Mulan IIYao (voice)

2004Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie CurtisSelf

2004Sesame Street: Elmo's World: The Street We Live On!Self (uncredited)

2004Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of MeSelf (voice)

2003DuplexKenneth

2003The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait SeriesSelf

2002Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes DocumentarySelf

2002Death to SmoochyMerv Green

2001Rescued from the ClosetSelf

2001One on One with Vito RussoSelf (archive)

2000Playing Mona LisaBennett

2000Common GroundDon

1999The Sissy DucklingElmer (voice)

1999Double PlatinumGary Millstein

1999JumpDish Macense

1999Family GuyBuster Keaton (voice)

1998HerculesArgus Panoptes (voice)

1998Safe MenGood Stuff Leo

1998MulanYao (voice)

1997Kull the ConquerorJuba

1997White LiesArt Hoarder

1997Three Little PigsThe Big Bad Wolf (voice)

1996Sesame Street: Elmo Saves ChristmasEaster Bunny

1996Everything RelativeThe Moyle

1996Independence DayMarty Gilbert

1996The Making of 'Independence Day'Self

1996The Celluloid ClosetSelf

1995Dr. Jekyll and Ms. HydeYves DuBois

1995Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every ChildMrs. Leaperman (voice)

1994Bullets Over BroadwaySid Loomis

1994Stonewall 25: Global Voices of Pride and ProtestSelf

1994Daddy's GirlsDennis Sinclair

1994EllenHarvey Fierstein

1993Mrs. DoubtfireFrank

1993Intimate PortraitSelf

1993The HarvestBob Lakin

1993An Evening with Lily Tomlin and FriendsSelf

1992The Larry Sanders ShowHarvey Fierstein

1991In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS StoryAndrew

1990The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV?Self

1989The SimpsonsKarl (voice)

1988Torch Song TrilogyArnold Beckoff

1988Tidy EndingsArthur

1988MaMa's Pushcart

1986ApologyThe derelict

1984Garbo TalksBernie Whitlock

1984The Times of Harvey MilkNarrator (voice)

1984Murder, She WroteStan Hatter

1984Miami ViceBenedict

1983The Demon Murder CaseThe Demon (voice)

1982CheersMark Newberger

1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Cameo (uncredited)

1956Tony AwardsSelf - Winner