Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris, affectionately known as NPH by his fans, is an American film and television actor born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on June 15th, 1973. He is best known for his role as the titular teenaged PhD. on Doogie Howser, M.D.. In 2005, he found new critical and commercial success in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother as the manic, supremely self-assured nightclub hound Barney Stinson. He also provided the voice of Lou in Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, filling in for Tobey Maguire. In 2008, NPH played the eponymous Doctor Horrible in the Joss Whedon comedy-short miniseries Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.