Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation:Gay[1] Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States Executive summary:Doogie Howser
Neil Patrick Harris was raised in Albuquerque, where his parents owned a restaurant. He made his first stage appearance as Toto in a grade school production of The Wizard of Oz, and decided to become an actor. After plenty of pestering, his parents sent him to a week-long "acting camp" at New Mexico State University, where he met Mark Medoff, Tony-winning author of Children of a Lesser God, who recommended the 14-year-old Harris for his feature debut in Clara's Heart with Whoopi Goldberg.
He became famous as TV's Doogie Howser, MD, the child prodigy who graduated from Princeton at 10 and earned his doctorate at 16. He voiced Max the mouse in Capitol Critters, a short-lived 1992 politically-themed prime time cartoon where he hung out with retired lab rat Bobcat Goldthwait, and in 1999 he played horror writer Tony Shalhoub's neurotic, germ-phobic editor in Stark Raving Mad. Since 2005 he has starred as a comic lothario on How I Met Your Mother with Alyson Hannigan, and as that sitcom started its second season Harris publicly came out of the closet as gay.
On Broadway, he played the crying, Bible-clutching master of ceremonies in Cabaret with Debbie Gibson, starred in Proof with Anne Heche, and played Lee Harvey Oswald in the musical Assassins, where Harris won good reviews for a surprisingly rich baritone singing voice. He also starred in a Los Angeles production of Sweeney Todd with Kelsey Grammer, and took the title role in Amadeus with Michael York as Antonio Salieri.
In occasional movie roles, he played the kid who summoned a laughable monster in the kiddie film Purple People Eater with Ned Beatty and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and he showed where to shoot an arachnid in Starship Troopers with Casper Van Dien. Harris played himself -- as a drug-addled, lecherous sex addict -- in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.
Emmy 2010 Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, for Glee Emmy 2010 Outstanding Special Class Programs, for hosting Tony broadcast Endorsement of Apple Apr-2016
Endorsement of Comcast
Endorsement of Hasbro
Endorsement of Heineken
Endorsement of Mars
Endorsement of Procter & Gamble Old Spice deodorant (2008-09)
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