neil patrick harris played count olaf in a series of unfortunate events.
who plays count olaf in a series of unfortunate events?
neil patrick harris
in october 2016, netflix released the first teaser trailer for "a series of unfortunate events", where warburton narrates the events of the series as lemony snicket. a trailer, featuring footage from the series and neil patrick harris's character, count olaf, was released by netflix in november 2016, followed shortly by the first full trailer. the second trailer was released in december 2016, followed by a "holiday-themed" trailer from count olaf leading fans to a viral marketing website for the fictional valorous farms dairy, which featured four holiday e-cards for download.
a series of unfortunate events (tv series)
in the netflix tv series, jacques snicket is portrayed by nathan fillion. he is first seen in "the austere academy" where he frees larry from the walk-in refrigerator that count olaf trapped him in. in "the ersatz elevator," jacquelyn enlists jacques snicket to bring olivia caliban into their organization. while esmé is kept busy by larry at café salmonella, jacques and olivia sneak into the squalors' building to find duncan and isadora quagmire. when count olaf in the form of gunther holds an auction, jacques and olivia attend it. in "the vile village," jacques and olivia arrive in the village of fowl devotees in order to detain count olaf. unfortunately, count olaf poses as detective dupin where he fools the villagers into thinking that jacques snicket is actually olaf and the council of elders sentence jacques to death. while jacques still had the v.f.d. tattoo, count olaf put a fake extension between his eyebrows to make it look like one eyebrow. he did silently introduce himself to the baudelaires and explain the tattoo description to them while detective dupin and the council of elders were talking. after olivia negotiates with esmé in the disguise of officer luciana for their freedom in exchange for the information about the sugar bowl that count olaf seeks, jacques sends olivia to find "madame lulu." when jacques confronts count olaf and esmé, they managed to incapacitate him as count olaf struck him with a crowbar offscreen. the next day, the baudelaires are informed that "count olaf" was murdered. olaf as detective dupin pins the blame of his death on the baudelaires. in "the hostile hospital" pt. 1 and 2, jacques snicket appeared on a film reel that is in heimlich hospital's library of records. in "the carnivorous carnival" pt. 1, jacques snicket was seen in a flashback at a party at the v.f.d. headquarters with lemony. in the present, he appears on a film reel at the caligari carnival that talks about the v.f.d. in "the penultimate peril" pt. 1, count olaf poses as jacques snicket when he speaks with mr. poe in hotel denouement's indian restaurant.
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