Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris (born 15 June 1973) is an American actor, producer, singer, television host, and writer.
Harris portrayed Lowell Sloane in the Showtime series Dexter: Resurrection.[1]
Appearances[]
Career[]
Film
His film credits include roles in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022); The Matrix Resurrections (2021); 8-Bit Christmas (2021); Downsizing (2017); YoCrunch! (2014); Gone Girl (2014); A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014); Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (voice); The Smurfs 2 (2013); American Reunion (2012); A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011); The Muppets (2011); The Smurfs (2011); Company (2011); Beastly (2011); The Best and the Brightest (2010); The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) (voice); Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) (voice); Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009, voice); Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008); Justice League: The New Frontier (2008, voice); The Golden Blaze (2005) (voice); Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004); Undercover Brother (2002); The Mesmerist (2002); The Next Best Thing (2000); The Proposition (1998); Starship Troopers (1997); Animal Room (1995); Purple People Eater (1988); and Clara's Heart (1988).
TV Movies
His credits include roles in Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special (2012, voice); Yes, Virginia (2009) (voice); The Christmas Blessing (2005); Too Good to Be True (1988); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert (2001); The Wedding Dress (2001); The Christmas Wish (1998); The Man in the Attic (1995); Legacy of Sin: The William Coit Story (1995); My Antonia (1995); Not Our Son (1995); Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story (1994); A Family Torn Apart (1993); Stranger in the Family (1991); Cold Sassy Tree (1989); and Foxfire (1987).
Shorts
His shorts include Cigna: TV Doctors of America - Emergency (2018); Cigna: TV Doctors of America - Even More Drama (2017); Attack of the 50 Ft. Gummi Bear! (2014 voice); Rien ne bat un astronaute (2013); Beyond All Boundaries (2009 voice); Dracula's Daughters vs. the Space Brains (2010); and Prop 8: The Musical (2008).
Television
His TV credits include roles in episodes of Doctor Who; How I Met Your Father; Celebrities Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions; Uncoupled; F Is for Family (voice); Star Wars: Visions (English version, voice); Eden (Mini Series, English version, voice); It's a Sin (Mini Series); Home Movie: The Princess Bride (Mini Series); Fraggle Rock: Rock On!; Ghostwriter (voice); A Series of Unfortunate Events; At Home with Amy Sedaris (voice); Mystery Science Theater 3000; The Penguins of Madagascar (voice); American Horror Story; How I Met Your Mother; Adventure Time (Additional Voices); Neil's Puppet Dreams; Dragon Ball Z Abridged (voice); Sesame Street; Glee; Robot Chicken (voice); Batman: The Brave and the Bold (voice); Family Guy (voice); Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Mini Series); Me, Eloise (voice); Jack & Bobby; Numb3rs; Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Spider-Man (voice); Boomtown: Justice League (voice); Touched by an Angel; Ed; The Legend of Tarzan (voice); As Told by Ginger (voice); Son of the Beach; Static Shock (voice); Stark Raving Mad; Will & Grace; Joan of Arc (Mini Series); Homicide: Life on the Street; The Outer Limits; Murder, She Wrote; Doogie Howser, M.D.; Quantum Leap; Captain Planet and the Planeteers (voice); Capitol Critters (voice); Roseanne (uncredited); Blossom (1990); The Simpsons (voice); Carol & Company; The Earth Day Special (1990 TV Special); and B.L. Stryker.
Podcasts
- Saints Row IV (2013) (voice)
- The Penguins of Madagascar: Dr. Blowhole Returns - Again! (2011) (voice)
- Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (voice)
- Radio Play Revival (2021) The Narrator (voice)
- Trust Fall (2023)
Video Games
- Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard (2009) (voice)
- Saints Row 2 (2008) (voice)
Music Videos
- Snoop Dogg: Undercova Funk (2002)
Personal Life[]
Neil Patrick Harris was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His parents, Sheila Gail (Scott) and Ronald Gene Harris, were lawyers and ran a restaurant. He grew up in Ruidoso, New Mexico, a small town 120 miles south of Albuquerque, where he first took up acting in the fourth grade. While tagging along with his older brother of 3 years, Brian Harris. Harris won the part of Toto in a school production of The Wizard of Oz (1939).
His parents moved the family to Albuquerque in 1988, the same year that Harris made his film debut in two movies: Purple People Eater (1988) and Clara's Heart (1988), which starred Whoopi Goldberg. A year later, when Neil was 16, he landed the lead role in Steven Bochco's television series about a teen prodigy doctor at a local hospital, Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989), which launched Harris into teen-heartthrob status. The series lasted 1989-1993 and earned him a People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Performer in a New Series (1990) and a Golden Globe Nomination (1990). Harris attended the same high school as Freddie Prinze Jr., La Cueva High School in Albuquerque. Neil acted on stage in a few plays while there, one of which was his senior play, Fiddler on the Roof (1971), in which he portrayed Lazar Wolf the butcher (1991).
Trivia[]
- His nickname is NPH
- He has sung since he was a child. His father played the folk guitar and together they entertained.
- He is an amateur magician, which he once demonstrated on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.
- On October 12, 2010, his and David Burtka's twins, son Gideon Scott and daughter Harper Grace, were born via surrogate.
- He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6243 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on September 15, 2011.
- His parents own a restaurant called "Perreniel's" in Albuquerque. His brother is currently running the restaurant.
- He has English, German and Scottish ancestry.
- He previously worked with John Lithgow on How I Met Your Mother, with Lithgow portraying the father of Harris' character Barney Stinson.
References[]
- ↑ Rosy Cordero, Neil Patrick Harris To Guest Star In Showtime’s ‘Dexter: Resurrection’, Deadline Hollywood, March 4, 2025.