Neil Patrick Harris Shows Off His Bare Body

That Neil Patrick Harris is a household name is no secret. He is by far one of the most talented actors to ever grace our TV screens. Born in 1973, he began his acting career at the age of 15 when he was cast in Clara's Heart opposite the legendary Whoopi Goldberg. After appearing in a number of TV and film projects, he was cast as Bernie Stinson on How I Met your Mother in 2005. This is the character he is well known for where he plays a suave Casanova.

Over the past decade, he has appeared in various films including Gone Girl (2014), The Smurfs series (2011 and 2013), Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008), and the Harold & Kumar series (2004-2011).Apart from acting, Harris has found great success as an event host. He was the MC for the Tony awards for four consecutive years starting in 2013. Along the way, he won himself three Emmy's for the role and went ahead to receive a Tony himself for his leading role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Over the same period, he also hosted the Prime-time Emmy Awards (in 2009 and 2013) and the 87th Academy Award ceremonies in 2015.

Thanks to his onscreen and off-screen successes, he was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in 2010.He is openly gay and married to fellow actor David Burtka and together have a set of twins through a surrogate mother. He came out in 2006 and went ahead to marry his long time lover at a private Italian wedding in 2009. He is considered by many as the first openly gay leading man in Hollywood and has not shied away from taking roles that portray heterosexual characters- and nailing them! Like any other celebrity, his career has not been free of occasional controversies. He famously hosted the Academy with only his boxer briefs for in 2015.

Similarly, he was featured on a Rolling stone Magazine cover with only a bow tie on and a bowler hat covering his genital area. He has also been known to have tweeted nude selfies of himself at one point in time. Away from nudes, he was alleged to have yelled at and insulted a fan who declared her love for him during a Broadway performance in 2014. Finally, it was rumored to have used the N-word while hosting the Tony's in 2013.