neil patrick harris

Neil Patrick Harris, 2008 Born Neil Patrick Harris

June 15, 1973 (1973-06-15) (age 35)

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States Occupation Actor Years active 1979 — present Domestic partner(s) David Burtka (since 2004)[1]

Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an American Golden Globe- and Emmy-nominated actor. Prominent roles in his career include the title character of Doogie Howser, M.D., the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother, Col. Carl Jenkins in Starship Troopers, Dr. Horrible of the web series Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and as a fictionalized version of himself in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and its sequel Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Contents [hide] 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Credits 4.1 Television 4.2 Film 4.3 Theater 4.4 Animation 4.5 Video games 4.6 Internet 4.7 Audio Books 5 Awards and nominations 6 References 7 External links //

Early life

Harris was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., and grew up in Ruidoso, New Mexico. His parents, Sheila H. and Ron Harris, were lawyers. He has an older brother, and it was by following his brother to an audition in fourth grade that he first began acting—as Toto in a school production of The Wizard of Oz. He attended La Cueva High School in Albuquerque and was active in school plays and musicals there. Harris was an honors student and graduated with honors in 1991. He was three years ahead of fellow La Cueva student Freddie Prinze, Jr.[2] He is also reported to be friends since kindergarten with Fox Anchor Cody Willard.

Career Harris at the 2008 Comic Con in San Diego, California.

Harris began his career as a child actor. He was discovered by playwright Mark Medoff at a Drama Camp in Las Cruces, NM. Medoff cast him in his 1988 film Clara's Heart, a drama with Whoopi Goldberg that won him a Golden Globe nomination. In 1988, he also starred in 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 television series, before taking his first film role as an adult in 1995 in the little-seen shocker Animal Room. Since then, his film work has included supporting roles in The Next Best Thing, Undercover Brother, Starship Troopers, as well as Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, in both of 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 has taken lead roles in a number of made-for-television features, including Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story in 1994, My Ántonia in 1995, A Christmas Wish in 1998, Joan of Arc in 1999, The Wedding Dress in 2001, and The Christmas Blessing in 2005, as well as series guest roles.

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