Neil Patrick Harris

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Image:Neil Patrick Harris.png Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on June 15, 1973. He is probably best known for his role as Doogie Howser, M.D., 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, where he played David, the Rupert Everett character's boyfriend. He has made a guest appearance in the episode "Girls, Interrupted" of the NBC sitcom Will & Grace; his character was an avowed "ex-gay" attempting to convert others to heterosexuality, but ended by affirming his same-sex attraction after meeting Jack McFarland (played by Sean Hayes). Harris 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 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 on the Nonesuch recording of Sondheim's Evening Primrose.

He also played a parody 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 to debut Fall 2006.