10 Great TV Shows Starring The How I Met Your Mother Cast
6. Six Feet Under - Frances Conroy
One of the most impressive aspects of How I Met Your Mother was its ability to rope in so many TV veterans into important supporting roles, a roster which includes the irreplaceable Frances Conroy as Barney's loving but eccentric mother Loretta.
Conroy has been acting on TV for decades, starring in everything from American Horror Story to Desperate Housewives, but her best project will forever be HBO's influential family drama Six Feet Under, in which she starred as family matriarch Ruth Fisher for five seasons.
Joined in the show's story of family woes and funeral home troubles by actors such as Michael C. Hall, Peter Krause, Rachel Griffiths and James Cromwell, Conroy is the show's stand-out star.
Expertly crafted, melodramatic without being overblown, heartbreaking without being exploitative, Six Feet Under is easily one of HBO's best properties, and as a nice little bonus it comes complete with perhaps the greatest series finale ever filmed.