Harvey Fierstein
Highest Rated: 100% Superstar in a Housedress (2004)
Lowest Rated: 0% Mulan II (2003)
Birthday: Jun 6, 1952
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
A graduate of the Pratt Institute, actor/playwright Harvey Fierstein made his off-Broadway debut in something called Pork. Outspokenly homosexual, Fierstein has successfully smashed previous "gay" stereotypes with his deep, ratchety voice and his engaging "You got a problem with that?" belligerence. In 1982, Fierstein wrote and starred in the stage play Torch Song Trilogy, a bittersweet three-part comedy concerning the homosexual experience in the AIDS era; the play won two Tony Awards and became one of the longest-running Broadway productions in history, toting up 1,222 performances. Fierstein repeated his stage characterization of Arnold Beckoff for the heavily rewritten and severely shortened 1988 movie version of Torch Song Trilogy. The actor's crossover performances in mainstream roles have often been quite successful, notably his appearance as the likable cosmetician brother of Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire (1993). In 1994, Fierstein co-starred in the short-lived TV series Daddies' Girls, unfortunately lapsing into some of the clichéd gay mannerisms which he had so successfully avoided in his previous work. He was part of the ensemble in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, and had a part in the smash sci-fi action spectacle Independence Day. He went on to be in the drubbed Death to Smoochy, Duplex, and a series of animated projects that include Mulan II and Foodfight!
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98% | Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles | Actor | — | 2019 |
| 76% | Hairspray Live! | Screenwriter Actor | — | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | Animal Crackers | Esmerelda | — | 2016 |
| 91% | The Wiz Live! | Screenwriter | — | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | Foodfight! | Fat Cat Burglar | — | 2012 |
| 89% | ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway | Actor | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Farce of the Penguins | Sheila | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | The Year Without a Santa Claus | Heat Miser | — | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Great Performances | Actor | — | 2005 |
| 100% | Superstar in a Housedress | Actor | — | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me | Actor | — | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | Broadway: The American Musical | Actor | — | 2004 |
| 35% | Duplex | Kenneth | — | 2003 |
| 0% | Mulan II | Yao | — | 2003 |
| 42% | Death to Smoochy | Merv Green | $8.4M | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | Common Ground | Don Screenwriter | — | 2000 |
| 64% | Playing Mona Lisa | Bennett | — | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | Double Platinum | Gary | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | Jump | Actor | — | 1999 |
| 57% | Safe Men | Good Stuff Leo | — | 1998 |
| 85% | Mulan | Yao | — | 1998 |
| 26% | Kull the Conqueror | Juba | — | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | Stories from My Childhood | Actor | — | 1996 |
| 25% | Everything Relative | The Moyle | — | 1996 |
| 65% | Independence Day | Marty Gilbert | — | 1996 |
| 96% | The Celluloid Closet | Interviewee | — | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | Elmo Saves Christmas | Easter Bunny | — | 1996 |
| 14% | Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde | Yves | — | 1995 |
| 97% | Bullets Over Broadway | Sid Loomis | — | 1994 |
| 72% | Mrs. Doubtfire | Frank | — | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | The Harvest | Bob | — | 1993 |
| 74% | Torch Song Trilogy | Arnold Arnold Beckoff Screenwriter Producer Executive Producer | — | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | Tidy Endings | Arthur Screenwriter | — | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | Apology (Apology for Murder) | Derelict | — | 1986 |
| 95% | The Times of Harvey Milk | Narrator | — | 1984 |
| 13% | Garbo Talks | Bernie Whitlock | — | 1984 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 88% |
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance 2019 |
The Gourmand |
2019 |
| No Score Yet |
Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen 2009-2019 |
Guest |
2018 |
| No Score Yet |
The Wendy Williams Show 2008 |
Guest |
2013 |
| No Score Yet |
Sunday Morning 2011-2018 |
Appearing |
2013 2012 |
| 94% |
The Good Wife 2009-2016 |
Judge Francis Flamm |
2011 |
| 81% |
Nurse Jackie 2009-2015 |
John Decker |
2010 |
| 71% |
Family Guy 1999 |
Voice |
2008 |
| No Score Yet |
Great Performances 2000 |
Host |
2005 |
| No Score Yet |
Sesame Street 1969 |
Guest |
2004 |
| No Score Yet |
Ellen 1994-1998 |
1998 |
|
| 100% |
The Larry Sanders Show 1992-1998 |
1997 |
|
| No Score Yet |
Cheers 1982-1993 |
Guest Mark Newberger |
1992 |
| No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote 1984-1996 |
Stan Hatter |
1992 |
| 85% |
The Simpsons 1989 |
Voice |
1990 |
| No Score Yet |
Miami Vice 1984-1990 |
Benedict |
1986 |
| No Score Yet |
Daddy's Girls 1994 |
Dennis Dumont |
QUOTES FROM Harvey Fierstein CHARACTERS
Fat Cat Burglar says: I'm gonna kill you!
Mulan says: Okay. Any questions?
Yao says: Does this dress make me look fat?
Mulan says: Okay. Any questions?
Yao says: Does this dress make me look fat? [he is slapped] Ow!
Chi Fu says: (singing) "I've a girl back home who's unlike any other..."
Chi Fu says: [singing] I've a girl back home who's unlike any other...
Yao says: "Yeah, the only girl who'd love him is his mother"
Yao says: Yeah, the only girl who'd love him is his mother.
Arnold Beckoff says: Try as I may...I just can't walk in flats!
Arnold Beckoff says: Try as I may... I just can't walk in flats!
Yao says: I'll get that arrow pretty boy, and I'll do it my shirt on.
Shang says: Whoa, one moment. You seemed to be missing something. This represents discipline. And this represents strength. You need both to reach the arrow.