Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television host who was born on June 15, 1973. He has garnered numerous awards during his career, including a Tony Award, five Primetime Emmy Awards, and nominations for a Grammy Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is most recognized for his humorous television appearances as well as dramatic and musical stage parts.
On television, he is best known for his roles as Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989–1993), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, and Barney Stinson on the CBS series How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014, for which he received four Emmy nominations), and Count Olaf on the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017–2019).
Harris is also renowned for his roles in the Harold & Kumar film series (2004–2011) and as the title character in Joss Whedon’s musical Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (2008). Starship Troopers (1997), Beastly (2011), The Smurfs (2011), and The Smurfs 2 are among his other features (2013), A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014), and Gone Girl (2014).
Neil Patrick Harris has hosted various award programs in addition to performing. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for hosting the Tony Awards four times, each time. Harris hosted the Emmy Awards in 2009 and 2013. He hosted the Academy Awards in 2015. Despite being contacted with chances to host the Late Show and The Late Late Show, Neil Patrick Harris declined. He also presented the Genius Junior game show.
Neil earned $225,000 each episode of How I Met Your Mother at the height of the show’s popularity. Before royalties and syndication earnings, that comes to $5.4 million.
Further Adventures: Neil Patrick Harris has established himself as a skilled magician, and many of his characters are based on real people.
Neil Patrick Ellis is said to have an estimated Net Worth of $50 million
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