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.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1952-06-06 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known for
- The Simpsons (1989) — Karl (voice)
- Independence Day (1996) — Marty Gilbert
- Mulan (1998) — Yao (voice)
- Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) — Frank
- How I Met Your Mother (2005) — Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)
- Family Guy (1999) — Buster Keaton (voice)
- BoJack Horseman (2014) — Harvey Fierstein (voice)
- Mulan II (2004) — Yao (voice)
- Duplex (2003) — Kenneth
- Big Mouth (2017) — Older Guy Town Resident (voice)
- Cheers (1982) — Mark Newberger
- The Good Wife (2009) — Judge Francis Flamm
- Bullets Over Broadway (1994) — Sid Loomis
- Bros (2022) — Louis
- Miami Vice (1984) — Benedict
- Saturday Night Live (1975) — Self - Cameo (uncredited)