Joshua Thomas "Josh" Radnor (born July 29, 1974) is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying
Ted Mosby on the popular
Emmy Award-winning
CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. He made his writing and directorial debut with the 2010 comedy drama film
Happythankyoumoreplease, for which he won the
Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. In 2012, he wrote, directed and starred in his second film,
Liberal Arts, which premiered at the
2012 Sundance Film Festival. In 2014 he starred as Isaac in the Broadway play
Disgraced, which earned a
Tony Award for Best Play nomination. Radnor is now filming a series for PBS called
Mercy Street.