How old was Neil Patrick Harris in How I Met Your Mother Season 1?

Neil Patrick Harris was 32 years old when he suited up for the role of  Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother’s first season premiering in 2005.

From 2005 to 2014, Neil Patrick 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.

Neil Patrick Harris is known for playing the title character on the ABC series Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989–1993), for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy.

Neil Patrick Harris’s first film role as an adult was in 1995’s Animal Room in which he portrayed a teenager. In 2010, Neil provided voice acting for the role of the adult Dick Grayson (Nightwing) in the animated film Batman: Under the Red Hood and the beagle Lou in the film Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.

Neil Patrick Harris also appeared in films including Starship Troopers (1997), Beastly (2011), The Smurfs (2011), The Smurfs 2 (2013), A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014), and Gone Girl (2014).