Neil Patrick Harris wins a best actor Tony Award | Inquirer Entertainment

Neil Patrick Harris wins a best actor Tony Award

/ 11:01 AM June 09, 2014

John Cameron Mitchell, left, and Neil Patrick Harris arrive at the 68th annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 8, 2014, in New York. AP

NEW YORK — After years of helping hand out Tony Awards to others, Neil Patrick Harris finally has one of his own.

The Emmy Award-winning “How I Met Your Mother” star won his first Tony on Sunday for playing a German male transsexual rock singer in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” a tale of obsession, glam rock and a botched sex-change operation.

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He beat Ramin Karimloo from “Les Miserables,” Andy Karl of “Rocky,” and Jefferson Mays and Bryce Pinkham, both from “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder.”

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Harris, the onetime star of “Doogie Howser, M.D.,” has featured previously in three Broadway productions: “Assassins,” ”Proof” and as the exuberant master of ceremonies in “Cabaret.” He also has appeared in the “Harold & Kumar” and “The Smurfs” movies.

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