[2] Harvey was born and raised in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, the sixth of eight children.

After graduation, he moved to New York City to pursue film, television and theatre work.

The following year, Harvey had one of his more prominent screen roles as "Black Sox" conspirator Swede Risberg in John Sayles' Eight Men Out (1988).

[1] Subsequently, Harvey had secondary roles in such high-profile productions as Casualties of War (1989) (his second Brian de Palma film), Die Hard 2 (1990), and The Thin Red Line (1998), in addition to the television film Better Off Dead (1993).

His television work includes Miami Vice, NYPD Blue, The Pretender, The Deuce, Medium, Numbers, and We Own This City.