Five Facts: Neil Patrick Harris gives you wings

Neil Patrick Harris would be without the use of his catchphrase absolutely legendary, because of the television landscape Barney Stinson has long become indispensable. In the fall of 2013, the success of comedy returns " How I Met Your Mother for the final " ninth season at CBS back. The actor is between seasons but not idle. This year Harris has for the fourth time Tony Award moderated and will also at the Emmys 22 September to now lead the second time through the evening.

Neil Patrick Harris has come to Albuquerque to the world and in the quiet mountain resort of Ruidoso, New Mexico, grew up. 1988 moved to the family and moved to Albuquerque, where his parents, a lawyer and author, opened a restaurant, which was led to the closure of his older brother Brian. Harris liked already in the fourth grade drama and a few years later, he was discovered by the playwright Mark Medoff, when Harris was fifteen years old, in a drama camp. Medoff cast him on the spot for his film "Clara's Secret" (1988). The first roll Harris also gave his first Golden Globe nomination.

Then the lead role followed in the sci-fi comedy "Purple People Eater - The Little Purple People Eater" (1988) and shortly thereafter starred in the successful ABC series " Doogie Howser, MD "(1989) written by David E. Kelley and Steven Bochco. For four years, Neil Patrick Harris was shown as a child prodigy with a photographic memory, received his doctorate at age 14. 1992 Harris was nominated for the second time for the Golden Globe. By the end of the series of child star also took some guest roles in series such as " Blossom "(1991) and" Roseanne "(1992).

After switching off the series in 1993, Harris turned to the theater stage and also filmed a series TV movies a la "Torn" (1993), "Lost in the blizzard" (1994) and "appeal for help from the flames" (1995) . On the big screen he appeared in 1995 in his first role as an adult in the thriller "Animal Room". It was followed by the moderate success "Starship Troopers" (1997), the romance "Wish & Reality" (1998) and the romantic comedy "The Next Best Thing" (2000), but the big breakthrough on the screen was missing.

So Harris took more roles in TV movies such as "A very special Christmas Wish" (1998) and "Joan of Arc - The Woman of the Millennium" (1999) and guest-starring roles on such series as Murder, She Wrote (1993), Outer Limits ( 1996) or Will & Grace (2000). In 1999, NPH tried alongside Tony Shalhoub in the NBC sitcom Stark Raving Mad (Stark Raving Mad) to take in the series Business foot again, but the series did not make it beyond the first season.

At the beginning of the new millennium, Neil Patrick Harris appeared primarily on Broadway in musicals as well as dramas: He starred in "Sweeney Todd" (2001), alongside Anne Heche in "Proof" (2002), alongside Deborah Gibson and Tom Bosley in "Cabaret" (2003), in Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins" (2004), and in "RENT". Most recently, he appeared this year in the lead role of the musical "Company" on stage alongside Jon Cryer undChristina Hendricks.

On the screen was Neil Patrick Harris on display until 2005 exclusively in guest roles, including in the FX comedy " Son Of The Beach "(2001)," Ed "(2001)," Touched By An Angel "(2002)," Law & Order: Criminal Intent "(2004) and" Numb3rs "(2005). On the big screen he was in 2002 in the two comedies "The Mesmerist" and "Undercover Brothers" present. Then played Harris an exaggerated version of himself in " Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle "(2004), as well as in the sequels" Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay "(2008) and" A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas "(2011 ).

Since 2005, Neil Patrick Harris Celebrates with " How I Met Your Mother "great success on the small screen and is a guarantee of success in the series. For the role of self-convinced of Ms. Harris was nominated handheld two-time Golden Globe and four Emmy nominations but came away empty. In the strike of 2008, the actor played the lead role in Joss Whedon 's web mini-series " Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog "on the side of  Felicia Day and  Nathan Fillion , also in the then relatively unknown Simon Helberg had a role. For five weeks, dominated the top of the web musical download charts in iTunes .

In addition to his roles in front of the camera Harris also lent many characters in animated series and movies, and video games in his voice. Examples include Max in " Capitol Critters "(1992)," Ray Thompson "in Justice League (2001), the title character in" Spider-Man "(2003)," Family Guy "(2007)," Robot Chicken "(2009 ) or Steve in the movie " Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs "(2009), Nightwing in" Batman: Under the Red Hood "(2010) and Lou in" Cats & Dogs ".

2010 appeared NPH as Bryan Ryan in the television hit " Glee "and won an Emmy for his performance at last. He was also producer for his job at The 63rd Annual Tony Awards also honored with the Emmy. In addition, he is a frequent host with awards such as least at the Tony Awards 2011, which again earned him a producer Emmy. Harris was on the screen in the title role of the comedy "The Best and the Brightest" (2010) and in a supporting role in the romance "Beastly - Look at his true face" (2011) to see. In the family comedy " The Smurfs "(2011), he was also one of the party in 2012 and appeared in  Jason Segel 's " The Muppets "at the movies. Soon he will be in the sequels " The Smurfs 2 "and" Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 will be heard. "