Neil Patrick Harris

When you start your career as a child prodigy doctor who delivers babies in shopping malls, gets 1600 on the SAT and types at nearly 70 words-per-minute, it seems impossible to top.

But the pride of New Mexico, Neil Patrick Harris, has come a long way from playing Doogie Howser M.D., and has become not just a successful Broadway and sitcom star as an adult, but also a role model for openly gay actors everywhere. His success as Barney on the hit CBS show "How I Met Your Mother" proves to aspiring gay actors that if you work hard enough, you too could be network television’s most hilarious womanizer.