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Acting

Harvey Fierstein

Career: Active from 1983 to 2020, with a break from 2005 to 2014, busiest in 1997 with 3 main titles.

Leading roles: 8
top three billing

Average score: 58/100

Highest rated: The Times of Harvey Milk
89/100

Characters

3

The characters Harvey Fierstein played, best-known titles first.

Harvey Fierstein as Yao

Harvey Fierstein as Yao

Harvey Fierstein as Edna Turnblad

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 46 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Harvey Fierstein Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Mystery
2.2, average 3.9
Crime
2.0, average 3.6
Violence
2.7, average 4.1
Tension
4.6, average 5.9

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 5
Family-Friendly 3
Poignant 2
Romantic Comedy 2
Lighthearted 2
Feel-Good Entertainment 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

56

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

3 titles · average score 69

Bros

69

as Louis

Disarm Hate

as Narrator

Shoshana Bean and Friends: An Evening of Broadway

as Performer

2010s

11 titles · average score 71

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

82

TV show · as skekAyuk (The Gourmand) (voice)

Kinky Boots: The Musical

79

Musical

Funny Girl

76

Writer, Musical

Animal Crackers

51

as Esmerelda (voice)

Big Mouth

80

TV show · as Older Guy Town Resident (voice)

Newsies

83

Musical

Hairspray Live!

74

as Edna Turnblad

The Wiz Live!

81

Writer

BoJack Horseman

88

TV show · as Harvey Fierstein (voice)

Smash

71

TV show · as Harvey Fierstein

Foodfight!

17

as Fat Cat Burglar (voice)

2000s

10 titles · average score 57

The Good Wife

81

TV show · as Judge Francis Flamm

Nurse Jackie

75

TV show · as John Decker

Farce of the Penguins

39

as Sheila (voice)

The Year Without a Santa Claus

48

as Heat Miser

How I Met Your Mother

75

TV show · as Lily's Smoking Voice (voice)

Mulan II

27

as Yao (voice)

Duplex

49

as Kenneth

Death to Smoochy

52

as Merv Green

Playing Mona Lisa

60

as Bennett

Common Ground

61

as Don

1990s

22 titles · average score 59

Family Guy

66

TV show · as Buster Keaton (voice) / Tracy (voice)

The Sissy Duckling

53

as Elmer (voice)

Mulan

76

as Yao (voice)

Hercules

67

TV show · as Argus Panoptes (voice)

Kull the Conqueror

31

as Juba

Three Little Pigs

as The Big Bad Wolf (voice)

Independence Day

64

as Marty Gilbert

Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

25

as Yves DuBois

Ellen

53

TV show · as Harvey Fierstein

Daddy's Girls

TV show · as Dennis Sinclair

Mrs. Doubtfire

63

as Frank

The Larry Sanders Show

84

TV show · as Harvey Fierstein

1980s

10 titles · average score 70

The Simpsons

84

TV show · as Karl (voice)

Torch Song Trilogy

78

as Arnold Beckoff

Tidy Endings

as Arthur

Apology

47

as The derelict

The Times of Harvey Milk

89

as Narrator (voice)

Murder, She Wrote

74

TV show · as Stan Hatter

Miami Vice

78

TV show · as Benedict

Garbo Talks

58

as Bernie Whitlock

The Demon Murder Case

42

as The Demon (voice)

Cheers

80

TV show · as Mark Newberger