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| Neil Patrick Harris is gay and wants to quell any rumors to the contrary. "(I) am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest," Harris tells People magazine's Web site. | |||
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| ==Selected filmography== | ==Selected filmography== | ||
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Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Doogie Howser, M.D., in which he portrayed a teenage doctor, although his current (and very contrasting) role in How I Met Your Mother is gaining increasing attention.
Harris' singing voice landed him a role as Tobias Ragg in several concert performances of Sweeney Todd. He also was in the 2000 film The Next Best Thing, and made a guest appearance in the episode "Girls, Interrupted" of the NBC sitcom Will & Grace.
Harris also guest starred as a murder suspect in a 1997 episode of Homicide: Life on the Street, and he also appeared in an episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent in 2004, cast against type as a Jeffrey Dahmer-like serial killer. He also appears in a cameo as himself in a 1991 episode of the Simpsons ("Bart the Murderer").
In 2002, he performed on Broadway beside Anne Heche in Proof. In 2003, he performed in Cabaret, alongside Deborah Gibson and Tom Bosley, where he played the role of the Emcee. In 2004, he performed a dual role of the Balladeer and Lee Harvey Oswald on Broadway in the controversial musical revival of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins. He also sang the role of Charles (first played by Anthony Perkins) on the Nonesuch recording of Sondheim's Evening Primrose.
He also played a version of himself in the movie Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle in 2004.
Harris currently plays Barney on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, which debuted in the fall of 2005 and has been renewed for a second season which debuted Fall 2006.
The existence of another actor named Neil Harris at the outset of his acting career led Harris to include his middle name in his working name.
Personal life
Neil Patrick Harris is gay and wants to quell any rumors to the contrary. "(I) am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest," Harris tells People magazine's Web site.
Selected filmography
Television
- Doogie Howser, M.D. (title role)
- Roseanne (guest appearance)
- Spider-Man: The New Animated Series as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
- Stark Raving Mad Henry
- Will & Grace (guest appearance)
- Celebrity Poker Showdown (31 Oct 2004)
- Ed (guest appearance - season 2, episode 6)
- NUMB3RS (guest appearance - season 1, episode 5)
- Jack & Bobby (guest appearance - season 1, episode 17)
- How I Met Your Mother Barney (debuted fall 2005)
- Mad TV (guest appearance)
- The Daily Show (guest appearance)
- The Simpsons (guest voice - season 3, episode 4: "Bart the Murderer")
- Big Brother 7: All Stars (guest appearance - episode 22, as the houseguests' secret Santa)
- Quantum Leap Episode (Return of the Evil Leaper) (guest appearance)
- Boomtown (TV series) as Peter Corman (guest appearance - season 1, episode "Monster's Brawl")
- Late Show with David Letterman (guest appearance 13 Oct 2006)
Cinema
- Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
- Undercover Brother (2002) Lance
- The Next Best Thing (2000) David
- Starship Troopers (1997) Colonel Carl Jenkins
- My Antonia (1995) Jimmy
Theater
- Romeo and Juliet (1998) ,Romeo, Old Globe Theatre, San Diego
- Rent National Tour-LA, San Diego Mark Cohen
- Assassins (2004) Balladeer; Lee Harvey Oswald
- Cabaret (2003) Emcee
- Proof (2002)Hal
- Sweeney Todd Tobias Ragg
- Tick, Tick... BOOM! Jon 2005 at Menier Chocolate Factory, London
- All My Sons (2006) ,Chris Keller, Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles
- Amadeus as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, July 20, 2006 at the Hollywood Bowl
External links
- Neil Patrick Harris at NNDB
- Neil Patrick Harris at IMDb
- Neil Patrick Harris at the Internet Broadway Database
- 2004 Chicago Sun Times Interview
- Neil Patrick Harris interview at AOL Television
- A question and answer session with Harris at Broadway.com
- Neil Patrick Harris and Marc Kudisch Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing
- Video: 9/06 Interview on myfoxla.com.
- Publicist's Statement Regarding Sexuality Rumors
- 1973 births
- People from Albuquerque, New Mexico
- American child actors
- American film actors
- American voice actors
- American musical theatre actors
- American television actors
- Quantum Leap actors
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent actors
- Living people
- Will & Grace actors
- The Outer Limits actors
- Homicide: Life on the Street cast
- Film actors
- LGBT people from the United States
- Gay actors