Editing Neil Patrick Harris (section)

==Early life and education==
Neil Patrick Harris was born on June 15, 1973, in [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Neil Patrick Harris profile |url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/neil-patrick-harris-167741/bio |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225201524/http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/neil-patrick-harris-167741/bio/ |archive-date=February 25, 2015 |access-date=March 5, 2015 |work=[[TV Guide]]}}</ref> and grew up in [[Ruidoso, New Mexico]], with his older brother and their parents, Sheila Gail (née Scott) and Ronald Gene Harris. Both parents were lawyers and also ran a restaurant.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/225296070/Neil-Patrick-Harris-Choose-Your-Own-Autobiography-by-Neil-Patrick-Harris-Excerpt|title=Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris - Excerpt|access-date=November 13, 2014|archive-date=February 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225000130/https://www.scribd.com/doc/225296070/Neil-Patrick-Harris-Choose-Your-Own-Autobiography-by-Neil-Patrick-Harris-Excerpt|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="usatoday1">{{cite news|last=Keveney|first=Bill|title=Host Neil Patrick Harris gives Emmys a bit of awesomeness|work=[[USA Today]]|date=September 13, 2009|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2009-09-13-neil-patrick-harris_N.htm|access-date=September 21, 2009|archive-date=September 22, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090922202228/http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2009-09-13-neil-patrick-harris_N.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[http://uagreeks.uark.edu/4484.php Alpha Chi Omega" Greek Life] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425063744/http://uagreeks.uark.edu/4484.php |date=April 25, 2013}}, uagreeks.uark.edu. Retrieved November 5, 2015.</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/how-neil-patrick-harris-met-himself-20140522|title=How Neil Patrick Harris Met Himself|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=November 13, 2014|date=May 22, 2014|archive-date=November 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111102345/http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/how-neil-patrick-harris-met-himself-20140522|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="roots">''[[Finding Your Roots]]'', February 23, 2016, PBS</ref> He attended [[La Cueva High School]] in Albuquerque, graduating with [[Honors student|high honors]] in 1991,<ref>Belcher, David (April 18, 2004). "Killer parts: Albuquerque's Neil Patrick Harris is back on Broadway with two roles in controversial 'Assassins'", ''[[Albuquerque Journal]]''. pg. ''ESPN F1''.</ref> which he attributes to being privately tutored half the school year while on a set.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Harris|first1=Neil Patrick|title=Neil Patrick Harris Goes Undercover on Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube|url=http://video.gq.com/watch/actually-me-neil-patrick-harris-goes-undercover-on-reddit-twitter-and-youtube|website=[[GQ]] Videos|access-date=April 16, 2018|date=April 5, 2018|quote=I did graduate from La Cueva High School. Go bears! With high honors? Er. I did okay. I mean, half the year I was tutored on a set by a teacher who fed me the specific information that I needed to solve tests.|archive-date=April 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416134650/http://video.gq.com/watch/actually-me-neil-patrick-harris-goes-undercover-on-reddit-twitter-and-youtube|url-status=live}}</ref>