10 Awful Movies How I Met Your Mother Actors Want Us To Forget

Of all Barney’s long term love interests, one of the most compelling is Nora. Played with grace by Nazanin Boniadi, she was never in it for the long haul but fit in nicely for the duration of her run, and gave some viewers something to root for.

Boniadi’s career has been exciting and varied, but one outright dud in which she plays a prominent role is the 2016 remake of Ben-Hur, the DOA flop that took one of cinema’s most successful and beloved stories and turned it into a CGI snooze that did nothing for anyone involved.

Bonadi actually emerges from the project better than most - she plays love interest Esther in a role substantially larger than that in the most famous 50s rendition and as such has less of a looming shadow to live up to - but the character is still somewhat of an archetype, with little in the way of her own motivation or urgency.

She’ll return to the world of epics in Amazon’s upcoming Lord Of The Rings series, where once again she’ll have to battle against the legacy of an incredibly popular existing version. Let’s hope things go a little better this time.