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.

Most Known For

The Simpsons

as Karl (voice)

Family Guy

as Buster Keaton (voice)

Family Guy

as Tracy (voice)

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

as Self - Guest

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self

The Good Wife

as Judge Francis Flamm

How I Met Your Mother

as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

BoJack Horseman

as Harvey Fierstein (voice)

Murder, She Wrote

as Stan Hatter

Cheers

as Mark Newberger

Miami Vice

as Benedict

Big Mouth

as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)

Hercules

as Argus Panoptes (voice)

Intimate Portrait

as Self

Ellen

as Harvey Fierstein

Mulan

as Yao (voice)

Independence Day

as Marty Gilbert

The Larry Sanders Show

as Harvey Fierstein

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)