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Neil Harris

Neil Harris

Milestones

  • Birthplace: Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
  • Birthday: June 15, 1973
  • 2009

    Will host the 63rd Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall (June)

  • 2008

    Once again played a parody of himself in "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay"

  • 2005 to 0000

    Cast as the womanizing Barney Stinson in the CBS comedy "How I Met Your Mother"; earned Emmy (2007, 2008) and Golden Globe (2009) nominations for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

  • 2004

    Performed a dual role of the Balladeer and Lee Harvey Oswald on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins"

  • 2004

    Played a drug-crazed, lecherous parody of himself in "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle"

  • 2003

    Joined the cast of Broadway's "Cabaret" in the role of the Emcee

  • 2001

    Recreated role of Tobias in a San Francisco production of "Sweeney Todd" (aired on PBS)

  • 2000

    Featured in "The Next Best Thing" opposite Madonna and Rupert Everett

  • 1999 to 2000

    Cast in NBC's "Stark Raving Mad" as a book editor assigned to work with an eccentric mystery writer

  • 1999

    Critically praised for his turn as Tobias Ragg in the Los Angeles production of "Sweeney Todd"

  • 1999

    Featured opposite Leelee Sobieski's "Joan of Arc" (CBS)

  • 1998

    Starred as Romeo in San Diego production of "Romeo and Juliet"

  • 1998

    Starred in the CBS holiday movie "The Christmas Wish"

  • 1997

    Featured in "Starship Troopers" as Colonel Carl Jenkins

  • 1997

    Joined the Los Angeles production of the musical "Rent" as the narrator Mark

  • 1994

    Starred in the fact-based TV-movie "Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story" (CBS)

  • 1993

    Made professional stage debut starring role in "Luck, Pluck & Virtue"

  • 1993

    Starred the NBC movie "A Family Torn Apart" as one of two adopted sons suspected of murdering their parents

  • 1992

    Voiced a young country mouse on the short-lived politically themed animated series "Capitol Critters"

  • 1989 to 1993

    Breakthrough role as a child prodigy doctor in the ABC series, "Doogie Howser, M.D."; earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor

  • 1988

    Feature debut starring opposite Whoopi Goldberg in "Clara's Heart"; received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor

  • 1988

    Featured in the little-seen sci-fi comedy "Purple People Eater"

  • 1988

    TV-movie debut in "Too Good to Be True" (NBC)

  • 1979

    First stage role at age six, playing Toto in a school production of "The Wizard of Oz"

  • Met playwright Mark Medoff (scripted "Clara's Heart") at a drama camp at New Mexico State University

  • Raised in Ruidoso, New Mexico

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