Question: Who are the stars in how i met your mother?

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context: The series follows the adventures of Ted Mosby (played by Josh Radnor), who narrates the story of how he met the mother of his children. The story goes into a flashback and starts in 2005 with the 27-year-old Ted Mosby living in New York City and working as an architect. The narrative deals primarily with his best friends, including the long-lasting couple Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel) and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), womanizing playboy Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris), and Canadian news reporter Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders); all of the characters' lives are entwined. The series explores many storylines, including a "will they or won't they" relationship between Robin and each of the two single male friends, Marshall and Lily's relationship, and the ups and downs of the characters' careers.
question: Who is the star that plays Ted Mosby in how i met your mother?
short_answers: Josh Radnor
wikipage: How I Met Your Mother
context: The series begins in September 2005 with Ted (Josh Radnor) as a single, 27-year-old architect living with his two best friends from his college years: Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel), a law student, and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), a kindergarten teacher and an aspiring artist. Lily and Marshall have been dating for almost nine years when Marshall finally proposes. Their engagement causes Ted to think about marriage and finding his soul mate, much to the disgust of his self-appointed best friend Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris), whom he met in the restroom at a bar four years earlier. Barney is a serial womanizer who concocts elaborate con games, usually involving costumes and fake identities, designed to bed women, only to lose interest in them immediately afterward.
question: Who is the star that plays Marshall Eriksen in how i met your mother?
short_answers: Jason Segel
wikipage: How I Met Your Mother
context: The series follows the adventures of Ted Mosby (played by Josh Radnor), who narrates the story of how he met the mother of his children. The story goes into a flashback and starts in 2005 with the 27-year-old Ted Mosby living in New York City and working as an architect. The narrative deals primarily with his best friends, including the long-lasting couple Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel) and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), womanizing playboy Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris), and Canadian news reporter Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders); all of the characters' lives are entwined. The series explores many storylines, including a "will they or won't they" relationship between Robin and each of the two single male friends, Marshall and Lily's relationship, and the ups and downs of the characters' careers.
question: Who is the star that plays Robin Scherbatsky in how i met your mother?
short_answers: Cobie Smulders
wikipage: How I Met Your Mother
context: The series begins in September 2005 with Ted (Josh Radnor) as a single, 27-year-old architect living with his two best friends from his college years: Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel), a law student, and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), a kindergarten teacher and an aspiring artist. Lily and Marshall have been dating for almost nine years when Marshall finally proposes. Their engagement causes Ted to think about marriage and finding his soul mate, much to the disgust of his self-appointed best friend Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris), whom he met in the restroom at a bar four years earlier. Barney is a serial womanizer who concocts elaborate con games, usually involving costumes and fake identities, designed to bed women, only to lose interest in them immediately afterward.
question: Who is the star that plays Barney Stinson in how i met your mother?
short_answers: Neil Patrick Harris
wikipage: How I Met Your Mother
context: The series follows the adventures of Ted Mosby (played by Josh Radnor), who narrates the story of how he met the mother of his children. The story goes into a flashback and starts in 2005 with the 27-year-old Ted Mosby living in New York City and working as an architect. The narrative deals primarily with his best friends, including the long-lasting couple Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel) and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan), womanizing playboy Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris), and Canadian news reporter Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders); all of the characters' lives are entwined. The series explores many storylines, including a "will they or won't they" relationship between Robin and each of the two single male friends, Marshall and Lily's relationship, and the ups and downs of the characters' careers.
question: Who is the star that plays Lily Aldrin in how i met your mother?
short_answers: Alyson Hannigan
wikipage: How I Met Your Mother
context: While the traditional love story structure begins when the romantic leads first encounter each other, "How I Met Your Mother" does not introduce Ted's wife (Cristin Milioti) until the eighth-season finale and only announces her name (Tracy McConnell) during the series finale. The show instead focuses on Ted's prior relationships and his dissatisfaction with those women, thus setting the stage for his eventual happiness with Tracy. Finally in present 2030, six years after Tracy's death, Ted gets back with Robin, which viewers may have assumed at the series finale when Ted is standing outside Robin's window. Ted's children were the ones to realize first that Ted was still in love with Robin, through the stories he told.
question: Who is the star that plays Tracy McConnell in how i met your mother?
short_answers: Cristin Milioti
wikipage: How I Met Your Mother

Long-form answers:
knowledge: content: How I Met Your Mother (often abbreviated as HIMYM) is an American sitcom, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays for CBS.
wikipage: How I Met Your Mother (often abbreviated as HIMYM) is an American sitcom, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays for CBS.
long_answer: How I Met Your Mother, often abbreviated as HIMYM, is an American sitcom, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays for CBS. The series follows the adventures of Ted Mosby, played by Josh Radnor, who narrates the story of how he met the mother of his children. The series begins in September 2005 with Ted as a single, 27-year-old architect living with his two best friends from his college years: law student Marshall Eriksen, played byJason Segel, and kindergarten teacher and an aspiring artist Lily Aldrin, played by Alyson Hannigan. The narrative deals primarily with his best friends, including the long-lasting couple Marshall Eriksen and Lily Aldrin, womanizing playboy Barney Stinson, played by Neil Patrick Harris, and Canadian news reporter Robin Scherbatsky, played by Cobie Smulders. While the traditional love story structure begins when the romantic leads first encounter each other, "How I Met Your Mother" does not introduce Ted's wife, played by Cristin Milioti, until the eighth-season finale and only announces her name, Tracy McConnell, during the series finale.