Harvey Fierstein

**Harvey Forbes Fierstein** (born June 6, 1954) is an American actor and playwright. He is known for playing his voice role as Yao in the 1998 animated movie _Mulan_. He won two Tony Awards and two Drama Desk Awards.

Fierstein was born on June 6, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York. He was raised Jewish, but he is an atheist. Fierstein is openly gay. He now lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Fierstein is an activist for Gay Rights as supporter for the Democratic Party.

### Film

|Year|Title|Role|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|1984|_Garbo Talks_|Bernie Whitlock||
|_The Times of Harvey Milk_|Narrator|Voice role|||
|1988|_Torch Song Trilogy_|Arnold Beckoff|||
|1992|_The Harvest_|Bob Lakin|||
|rowspan="2"|1993|_Mrs. Doubtfire_|Francis "Frank" Hillard||
|_Bullets Over Broadway_|Sid Loomis||||
|1995|_Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde_|Yves DuBois|||
|rowspan="4"|1996|_The Celluloid Closet_|Himself|Interview about LGBT movies|
|_Independence Day_|Marty Gilbert||||
|_Everything Relative_|The Moyle||||
|_Elmo Saves Christmas_|Easter Bunny||||
|rowspan="3"|1997|_White Lies_|Art Hoarder||
|_Kull the Conqueror_|Juba||||
|_Three Little Pigs_|The Big Bad Wolf|Voice role (short film)|||
|rowspan="2"|1998|_Mulan_|Yao|Voice role|
|_Safe Men_|Leo||||
|1999|_Jump_|Dish Macense|||
|2000|_Playing Mona Lisa_|Bennett|||
|Unreleased|_Kingdom of the Sun_|Huaca|Voice role||
|2001|_Vanilla Sky_|Bob Shelby|||
|2002|_Death to Smoochy_|Merv Green|||
|2003|_Duplex_|Kenneth|||
|2004|_Mulan II_|Yao|Voice role||
|2006|_Farce of the Penguins_|Sheila|Voice role||
|2012|_Foodfight!_|Fat Cat Burglar|Voice role||
|2014|_Russian Broadway Shut Down_|Book Writer|Short film||
|2017|_Animal Crackers_|Esmerelda|Voice role||
|2019|_The Little Mermaid: An Immersive Live-to-Film Concert Experience_|Ursula|Voice role||
|2020|_Disarm Hate_|Narrator|Voice role (documentary)||

### Television

|Year|Title|Role|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1983|_The Demon Murder Case_|Demon|Voice role (television film)||
|rowspan="2"|1986|_Miami Vice_|Benedict|Episode: "The Fix"|
|_Apology_|The Derelict|Television film|||
|1988|_Tidy Endings_|Arthur|Television film||
|1990|_The Simpsons_|Karl|Voice role (Episode: "Simpson and Delilah")||
|1991|_ABC Afterschool Specials_|Andrew|Episode: "In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story"||
|rowspan="2"|1992|_Cheers_|Mark Newberger|Episode: "Rebecca's Lover... Not"|
|_Murder, She Wrote_|Stan Hatter|Episode: "The Dead File"|||
|1994|_Daddy's Girl_|Dennis Sinclair|Series regular (3 episodes)||
|rowspan="3"|1997|_The Larry Sanders Show_|Harvey Fierstein|Episode: "The Matchmaker"|
|_Fame L.A._|Jeremy Pinter|Episode: "Do or Die"|||
|_Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child_|Mrs. Leaperman|Voice role (Episode: "Thumbelina")|||
|rowspan="3"|1998|_Ellen_|Himself|Episode: "It's a Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay World!"|
|_Hercules_|Argus Panoptes|Voice role (Episode: "Hercules and the Bacchanal")|||
|_Stories from My Childhood_|Grambo|Voice role (Episode: "Alice and the Mystery of the Third Planet")|||
|1999|_Double Platinum_|Gary Millstein|Television film||
|1999|_The Sissy Duckling_|Elmer|Voice role (television film)||
|rowspan="2"|2000|_Common Ground_|Don|Television film|
|_Behind the Music_|Himself|Episode: "1984"|||
|2004|_Biography_|Himself|Episode: "John Waters"||
|2004–07|_Sesame Street_|Himself|Recurring role (3 episodes)||
|2006|_The Year Without a Santa Claus_|Heat Miser|Television film||
|2008|_Family Guy_|Tracy|Voice role (Episode: "The Former Life of Brian")||
|2009|_How I Met Your Mother_|Lily's smoking voice (voice)|Episode: "Last Cigarette Ever"||
|2010|_Nurse Jackie_|John Decker|Episode: "Monkey Bits"||
|2011|_The Good Wife_|Judge Francis Flamm|Episode: "Feeding the Rat"||
|2012|_Submissions Only_|Auditioner #5|Episode: "Another Interruption"||
|rowspan="2"|2013|_Smash_|Himself|Episode: "The Fallout"|
|_Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen_|Himself|Episode: "Harvey Fierstein & Kim Zolciak"|||
|2014|_Saturday Night Live!_|Himself|Episode: "Bill Hader/Hozier"||
|rowspan="2"|2015|_Family Guy_|Buster Keaton|Voice role (Episode: "Stewie Is Enceinte")|
|_The Wiz Live!_|align="center"|—|Television special (teleplay writer)||
|2016|_Hairspray Live!_|Edna Turnblad|Television special (also teleplay writer)||
|2017|_BoJack Horseman_|iOvulate bracelet|Voice role (Episode: "Commence Fracking")||
|rowspan="2"|2018-2020|_Big Mouth_|Jerome|Voice role (Episode: "Guy Town", "Horrority House")|
|_Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen_|Himself|Episode: "Jane Curtin & Harvey Fierstein"|||
|2019|_The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance_|The Gourmand|Recurring voice role (7 episodes)||

### Video games

|Year|Title|Role|Notes|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|1998|_Disney's Animated Storybook: Mulan_|rowspan="4"|Yao||
|_Mulan Story Studio_||||||
|2005|_Kingdom Hearts II_|rowspan="2"|English version|||
|2007|_Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+_|||||

## Other websites

- Review of Torch Song Trilogy, with information about Fierstein
- TonyAwards.com Interview with Harvey Fierstein
- Donald L. Brooks' memoir of early casting of Fierstein and commissioning and directing Fierstein's first play.