Throughout his career, David Bartka (1975) was considered a promising actor with a great future, but became famous only for his eminent partner. Now he is mostly known as Neil Patrick Harrison's lover.
Eternally promising actor
Great prospects for an actor named David Bartka were predicted by everyone - his teachers at acting classes, the very first spectators and close people. It remained to go quite a bit to the top in the career. But working in the frame or on stage, David confidently preferred the profession of a chef in a restaurant.
David Bartka comes from Polish immigrants in the US, he grows up in a bohemian environment and receives a good education. Only at the age of 27 he makes his debut on the television screen, and in one episode in a minor role. At the age of 28, a year later after the first role, he also appears on Broadway.
And here, too, he will be interrupted by characters of little importance. It is a minor role that will lead him to the most important decision of his life in a few years.
Minor role
On the set of the series "How I Met Your Mother" (2005 - the year of the premiere), he will start a relationship with the eminentactor, men will fall in love and create a happy family. As soon as such marriages are allowed in the US, the actors will celebrate the wedding.
The future theater actor and musical hero was born into the family of Pole Daniel Bartka in the outback. Here, on the lands of Michigan, in 1975, the future actor David Bartka will be born. His face will be recognized, but he will never conquer the big screen.
He starred in the following series:
- "American Horror Story";
- "West Wing";
- "Investigation Jordan";
- "CSI: Crime Scene New York";
- "Puppet dreams of the Nile";
- "RuPaul's Royal Race";
- "How I met your mother".
In these projects, an actor named David Bartka was given only a few episodes.
Bartka at the movies
The list of his films in cinema and on television also fits into a rather modest list. Most of them are short films. We are talking about such projects:
- "Gay Christian Community";
- "Driving Under the Influence";
- "Army Guy";
- "Open House";
- "Worldly Possession".
With such a short list of roles, he managed to collect a lot of rave reviews from television critics and film colleagues. He also had an audience of fans around him. Get popular for a few episodes on TV andSeveral movie roles are not for every actor. Throughout his career, more or less major roles in feature films, he had only 4. We are talking about such films:
- "24 nights";
- "Dance-Off";
- "Annie and the Gypsies";
- "Harold and Kumar's Killer Christmas".
Perhaps, in the future work, David Bartka will not act in films and serials, and he will abandon the game on stage forever. In one of the latest news about this actor, it was said about the end of his career, according to rumors, he was going to devote himself completely to his second profession. Even before the first successes on stage and in the frame, he got the skill of working as a chef in a restaurant. Over time, David has become a respected specialist in this profession.
Later, the rumors were confirmed and in one of his interviews, the chosen one of the chef and actor, his beloved Patrick Harris, announced his husband's success in cooking.
David and Patrick
It's hard to judge how thoughtful the decision was made by David with a change of profession. But even without film or TV roles as Harris' husband, he's still on the red carpet. The couple is very popular with the paparazzi. Each of their photos or mention in the media is of great interest. Patrick Harris and David Bartka were actors of different calibers, but that didn't stop them from finding each other in the theatrical scene.
The more successful Patrick was even the first to confess his love to his chosen one. But Bartka later proposes marriage himself, and the men get engaged. Then they will hold sometime in anticipation of the legalization of such marriages. Elton John himself sang and played at the wedding for the newly-made spouses. The popularity of both actors gave the marriage a special publicity.
