Yahoo News How I Met Your Mother: Who's had the biggest career?
It's been nearly three years since How I Met Your Mother ended. Okay, it might not have had the most awesome finale of all time, but we still miss the gang hanging out at McLaren's bar and playing a game of Slapbet or two.
With a potential spinoff still in the works, and 20th Century Fox pondering a revival with the original cast, it got us thinking... what have the cast been up to since then? Here's a ranking of how each of the main actors has fared:
6. Alyson Hannigan (Lily)
Alyson was already a huge star thanks to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the American Pie series by the time she signed up for HIMYM.
Since being part of the show, she has featured in a handful of movies including the fourth American Pie film, guested on The Simpsons and has hosted Penn and Teller: Fool Us.
She has been raising two daughters with husband Alexis Denisof (Wesley in Angel), after giving birth to Satyana in 2009 and Keeva in 2012.
5. Josh Radnor (Ted)
The show's main star was a relative unknown when he landed the role in 2005. Since then, he has focused mainly on indie filmmaking, including his 2010 directorial debut Happythankyoumoreplease. He also directed and starred in the 2012 movie Liberal Arts, and will direct the upcoming sci-fi The Leaves.
He was one of the main cast members in the period medical drama Mercy Street on PBS before its cancellation this year. He will next star in the musical drama Rise on NBC. He has also started a career in music, teaming up with singer-songwriter Ben Lee.
4. Cristin Milioti (Tracy)
She may have only appeared properly in the final season, but she made quite the impression as the titular Mother. Before signing up, she had already made a name for herself on stage, including the Broadway version of folk musical Once.
The same year she joined HIMYM, she had a supporting role in The Wolf of Wall Street, and went on to have recurring roles in TV shows The Mindy Project and A to Z. She also had a leading role in the second season of Fargo.
3. Jason Segel (Marshall)
Jason was already a familiar face on TV thanks to Freaks and Geeks before HIMYM launched. The, during his time on the CBS sitcom, Jason managed to find the time to launch a pretty successful movie career.
Starring roles included The Muppets, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I Love You Man, Despicable Me and Sex Tape among others.
However, he has remained relatively quiet since HIMYM ended, though he received plaudits for playing author David Foster Wallace in the 2015 film The End of the Tour.
2. Cobie Smulders (Robin)
HIMYM was one of Cobie's first ever roles, and her career has gone from strength to strength since then.
In 2012, she landed the role of SHIELD agent Maria Hill in The Avengers, a part she has reprised for The Winter Soldier, Agents of SHIELD and Age of Ultron. She will also return for the upcoming Infinity War.
Cobie has also had roles in The Lego Movie, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, and the TV series Lemony Snicket and upcoming Netflix show Friends from College.
She married comedian Taran Killam in 2012, and they have two daughters together.
1. Neil Patrick Harris (Barney)
While Cobie may have landed the biggest Hollywood roles of the cast, we'd argue that HIMYM helped turn Neil into an even bigger household name, and he just pips her to the top of this list. For now, at least.
Neil totally reinvented himself on the show, having previously been best known as a child star in Doogie Howser. The year before HIMYM, he appeared as a zany version of himself in the first Harold & Kumar movie, and he returned for its two sequels.
He is also known for the lead role in Joss Whedon's Dr Horrible, for parts in The Smurfs (and its sequel) and Gone Girl, and for playing Count Olaf in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events on Netflix.
He won a Tony Award for Hedwig and the Angry Itch in 2014, and has hosted the event four times since 2009. He has also hosted the Emmys twice and the Oscars in 2015.
Neil was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in 2010. He married actor David Burtka in 2014, and they have two children together.
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