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How I Met Your Mother’s Nazanin Boniadi on Taming Barney, Bailing on Med School, and Making Soap Opera History

Nazanin Boniadi.

Nazanin Boniadi got her start on General Hospital, but fans of How I Met Your Mother know her as Nora, the laser-tag-loving, Ewok-hating World Wide News employee who may or may not have been Barney’s mystery bride in this season’s premiere. We spoke with the Iranian-born and London-raised actress ahead of tonight’s episode (in which she and Barney share a romantic evening gone wrong) about what it’s like to work with Neil Patrick Harris, bailing on med school, and making soap opera history.

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How I Met Your Mother’s Nazanin Boniadi