- Films
- 23
- Avg rating
- 6.14
- Peak run
- 2011’14
- 7+ run
- 2 films
Every film, by IMDb rating
The career
Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.
As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes
Neil by the numbers
Average
6.14
20 rated films
Vote weighted
6.21
bigger films count more
Median
6.2
half are better
Consistency
±1.06
rating spread
Career
39y
1988 to 2026
Total votes
3.14M
across every film
Best
8.1
Gone Girl
Worst
4.4
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Newest first
Filmography
| 2026 |  Sunny Dancer | Patrick | 7.2 | 1,234 |
| 2026 | The Last Temptation of Becky | General Wilhelm Reuss | · | 55 |
| 2022 |  The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent | Richard Fink | 7.0 | 182K |
| 2021 |  The Matrix Resurrections | The Analyst | 5.6 | 307K |
| 2021 |  8-Bit Christmas | Jake Doyle (Adult) | 6.7 | 25,609 |
| 2014 |  Gone Girl | Desi Collings | 8.1 | 1.19M |
| 2014 |  A Million Ways to Die in the West | Foy | 6.1 | 212K |
| 2013 |  Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 | Steve | 6.3 | 128K |
| 2013 |  The Smurfs 2 | Patrick | 5.3 | 51,546 |
| 2011 |  The Smurfs | Patrick Winslow | 5.4 | 106K |
| 2011 |  A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas | Neil Patrick Harris | 6.2 | 75,689 |
| 2011 | Company | Robert | 7.7 | 1,596 |
| 2010 |  Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore | Lou | 4.4 | 17,514 |
| 2010 | The Best and the Brightest | Jeff | 4.8 | 1,488 |
| 2009 |  Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Steve | 6.9 | 291K |
| 2008 |  Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay | Neil Patrick Harris | 6.5 | 147K |
| 2002 | The Mesmerist | Benjamin | · | 270 |
| 2002 |  Undercover Brother | Lance | 5.9 | 38,346 |
| 2000 |  The Next Best Thing | David | 4.7 | 12,164 |
| 1997 |  Starship Troopers | Carl Jenkins | 7.3 | 351K |
Better together?
Neil Patrick Harris's regulars
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers.
Takes
On Neil Patrick Harris
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