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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 TV roles as the teenage doctor Doogie Howser, M.D. and the womanizing Barney in How I Met Your Mother.
Harris made his acting debut as a child actor in 1988, starring in the films Clara's Heart, a drama with Whoopi Goldberg that won him a Golden Globe nomination, and Purple People Eater, a children's fantasy. The following year he won the lead in Doogie Howser, M.D., for which he was again nominated for a Golden Globe.
After Doogie Howser's four-season run ended in 1993, Harris played a number of guest roles on TV, before taking his first adult film role in 1995 in the little-seen shocker Animal Room. Since then his film work has included supporting roles in Starship Troopers, The Proposition, The Next Best Thing, Undercover Brother, and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, in which he played a drug-crazed, lecherous parody of himself.
From 1999 to 2000 Harris starred with Tony Shalhoub in the sitcom Stark Raving Mad, which lasted twenty-two episodes. He also guest starred as a murder suspect in a 1997 episode of Homicide: Life on the Street and he appeared in an episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent in 2004, cast as a cannibal. He also appeared in the episode "Girls, Interrupted" of Will & Grace, and in a cameo as himself in a 1991 episode of the Simpsons, "Bart the Murderer".
Harris has worked on Broadway in both musical and dramatic roles. He played Tobias Ragg in 2001 concert performances of Sweeney Todd. In 2002, he performed on Broadway beside Anne Heche in Proof. In 2003, he took the role of the Emcee in Cabaret, alongside Deborah Gibson and Tom Bosley. 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.
The CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother debuted in the fall of 2005 and has been renewed for a second season beginning in the Fall of 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
On 2 November 2006, after an unsubstantiated report about Harris's sexuality and his "longtime sweetheart" actor David Burtka surfaced on www.canada.com, the actor's publicist issued a denial, stating that Harris "is not of that persuasion." However, a day later, Harris confirmed to People that he is gay. The actor's statement read:
- "The public eye has always been kind to me, and until recently I have been able to live a pretty normal life. Now it seems there is speculation and interest in my private life and relationships. So, rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love."
Selected filmography
Television
- Doogie Howser, M.D. (title role)
- Roseanne (guest appearance)
- My Antonia (1995) Jimmy
- 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
- The Proposition (1998)
- Starship Troopers (1997) Colonel Carl Jenkins
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.
- Neil Patrick Harris Comes Out as "Content Gay Man"
- 1973 births
- People from Albuquerque, New Mexico
- American child actors
- American film actors
- American voice actors
- American musical theatre actors
- American television actors
- Homicide: Life on the Street cast
- Film actors
- LGBT actors from the United States
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent actors
- LGBT people from the United States
- Living people
- The Outer Limits actors
- Quantum Leap actors
- Will & Grace actors