Latest news on the high-profile actor. Neil Patrick Harris is an openly gay theater, television, and film actor, and is a very vocal advocate for LGBT rights and equality. He is well known for his childhood role as Doogie Howser, M.D., as well as the CBS sitcom How I met Your Mother. Neil Patrick Harris has also starred in movies like Gone Girl, and has made appearances on popular TV shows like Glee and American Horror Story. In his personal life, Harris has two children, and is married to fellow actor David Burtka.
Neil Patrick Harris will headline another season of the adaptation as Count Olaf, the evil guardian of the Baudelaire orphans, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"I like that Olaf is so convinced that he's a genius and he's a total failure and he's almost Shakespearean in his own mind," Harris said about his starring role in the Netflix feature premiering Jan. 13.
