
Biography
David Kenneth Harbour (born April 10, 1975) is an American actor. He gained global recognition for his portrayal of Jim Hopper in the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things (2016–2025), for which he received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. His starring film roles include the title character in Hellboy (2019), Santa Claus in Violent Night (2022), and a former racer in the sports film Gran Turismo (2023). Harbour has played Red Guardian in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the films Black Widow (2021), Thunderbolts* (2025), Avengers: Doomsday (2026) and Avengers: Secret Wars (2027). Harbour also voiced Eric Frankenstein in the animated television series Creature Commandos (2024–present). Description above from the Wikipedia article David Harbour, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Tony Award — Best Featured Actor in a Play · 2005 · nominated
- Golden Globe Award — Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film · nominated
Filmography50+ titles

Stranger Things

GOAT

What If...?

The Newsroom

Animal

Banshee

The Simpsons

Lie to Me

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Creature Commandos

Brokeback Mountain

Stranger Things: Tales from '85

Gran Turismo

Elementary

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Beyond Stranger Things

End of Watch

One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5

Marvel Zombies

Thunderbolts*

Extraction

The Equalizer

The Unit

Law & Order

Violent Night

Black Widow

Marvel Studios Assembled

Hot Ones

Manhattan

Revolutionary Road

Saturday Night Live

DTF St. Louis

Drunk History

State of Play

Jeopardy!

A Working Man

Q-Force

Royal Pains

Night of the Zoopocalypse

Awake

Kinsey

We Have a Ghost

Crisis in Six Scenes

Black Mass

Thin Ice

War of the Worlds

No Sudden Move

Animals.

A Walk Among the Tombstones

Parkland