neil patrick harris was the actor who played barney stinson in tvs how i met your mother.
neil patrick harris was the actor who played barney stinson in tvs how i met your mother.
actor who played barney stinson in tvs how i met your mother?
neil patrick harris
from 2005 to 2014, harris played barney stinson, a serial womanizer, in the cbs ensemble sitcom "how i met your mother". the role earned him emmy nominations every year from 2007 to 2010.









































in 2008, harris guest-starred on "sesame street" as the sesame street fairy shoe person. in 2009, he hosted the 7th annual tv land awards and appeared as a guest judge on season 9 of "american idol".
neil patrick harris
barney stinson is one of five main characters on "how i met your mother". he is a manipulative, oversexed businessman in his thirties who always wears a suit, likes women with "daddy issues" and is frequently willing to offer his (sometimes hypocritical) opinion. throughout the earlier seasons, barney is a huge womanizer, and has been described as a "high-functioning sociopath" by his best friend, ted mosby (josh radnor). barney has a plethora of strategies and rules designed to meet women, sleep with them, and discard them. through several seasons of the show, four of the main characters are couples, as ted began dating robin scherbatsky (cobie smulders) and ted's roommate marshall eriksen (jason segel) becomes engaged and later married to lily aldrin (alyson hannigan). this leaves barney the only single character, and, according to harris, barney is "resentful" that the other characters have paired up. later on, in season 5, he dates robin. they end up breaking up not long after, once they both realize they are making one another miserable.
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