10 of the best acting career comebacks of all time (+Photos)

9. Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris was pretty popular in the 1980s when he played the genius teenage doctor on the hit show Doogie Howser, M.D. After the show went off the air, we didn’t hear much from Harris, and he didn’t get back in the spotlight until he appeared on Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, which was a web miniseries. Neil Patrick Harris then made everyone fall in love with him again when he played sex-crazed Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother. Neil Patrick Harris also made a comeback in the spotlight by hosting a number of award shows and appearing on Broadway as the main character in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.