It's official: Neil Patrick Harris' Oscar hosting gig will finally be a reality! Neil Patrick Harris' Oscars appearance was a long time in the making, as the television and Broadway actor has been racking up hosting gigs for a while now, having hosted the Tony Awards four times (only legendary actress Angela Lansbury has done it more times, at a record of 5) and the Emmy Awards twice.
News of Neil Patrick Harris' Oscars gig came last Wednesday, when the actor released a video on Twitter crossing off 'hosting the Oscars' from his Bucket List.
Neil Patrick Harris' Oscars performance is expected to bring some Broadway swag to the Dolby Theater, the way it was when another theater kid, Hugh Jackman, hosted a few years ago, back in 2009.
Neil Patrick Harris' Oscar hosting gig comes as no surprise to anyone, seeing as he's one of the biggest names on television, a medium where he's been working practically his whole life, since Doogie Howser, M.D back in the late 80s and early 90s, where he played a young doctor also coping with being a teenager - in the past few years, he was part of the cast of the long-running hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother, which only ended last spring; in the show, he played womanizer Barney Stinson.
Besides television, Harris is also famous for his Broadway turns in different shows, most recently playing the lead role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a performance for which he won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Musical.
Neil Patrick Harris' Oscar hosting gig isn't the only good news regarding the actor in the past couple of months: recently, Harris married longtime partner David Burtka in Italy. The couple has two children, fraternal twins via a surrogate mother: Gideon Scott, a boy, and Harper Grace, a little girl. They were born in 2010.
