David Harbour

Actor

David Kenneth Harbour (born April 10, 1975) is an American actor. He has received nominations for a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards.

David began his career acting in Shakespearean theatre productions. After his professional debut on Broadway in the 1999 revival of The Rainmaker, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in a production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He made his television debut on Law & Order in 1999 and had supporting roles in films such as Brokeback Mountain (2005), Revolutionary Road (2008) and Black Mass (2015).

Harbour gained global recognition for his portrayal of Jim Hopper in the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things (2016–2025), for which he received a Critics’ Choice Television Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. 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 media franchise, beginning with the film Black Widow (2021).

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Known For

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Suicide Squad

2016

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Stranger Things

2016

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Black Widow

2021

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The Simpsons

1989

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The Equalizer

2014

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War of the Worlds

2005

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Quantum of Solace

2008

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Brokeback Mountain

2005

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Extraction

2020

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What If...?

2021

Acting

2027 Avengers: Secret Wars as Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian

2026 Violent Night 2 as Santa

2026 Avengers: Doomsday as Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian In Library

2026 GOAT as Archie Everhardt (voice) In Library

2026 One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 as Self (uncredited)

2026 DTF St. Louis as Floyd Smernitch (7 episodes)

2025 Night of the Zoopocalypse as Dan (voice)

2025 Thunderbolts* as Alexei Shostakov

2025 A Working Man as Gunny Lefferty

2025 Marvel Zombies as Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian (voice) (4 episodes)

2024 Creature Commandos as Frankenstein (voice) (7 episodes)

2023 Gran Turismo as Jack Salter

2023 We Have a Ghost as Ernest

2022 Violent Night as Santa

2021 Black Widow as Alexei

2021 No Sudden Move as Matt Wertz

2021 Q-Force as Buck (voice) (10 episodes)

2021 Marvel Studios Assembled as Self (1 episode)

2021 Animal as Self - Narrator (voice) (1 episode)

2021 What If...? as Alexei Shostakov (voice) (1 episode)

2021 What If...? as Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian (voice) (1 episode)

2020 Extraction as Gaspar

2019 Hellboy as Hellboy / Anung Un Rama

2019 Tales of the Wild Hunt: Hellboy Reborn as Self

2019 Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein as David Harbour III / David Harbour Jr. / Frankenstein

2018 Human Affairs as Ronnie

2017 Sleepless as Doug Dennison

2017 Beyond Stranger Things as Self (2 episodes)

2016 Suicide Squad as Dexter Tolliver

2016 Stranger Things as Jim Hopper (42 episodes)

2016 Animals. as Hawk (voice) (1 episode)

2016 Crisis in Six Scenes as Vic (6 episodes)

2015 Black Mass as John Morris

2015 Hot Ones as Self (1 episode)

2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest (1 episode)

2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self (1 episode)

2014 A Walk Among the Tombstones as Ray

2014 The Equalizer as Masters

2014 X/Y as Todd

2014 Rake as David Potter (13 episodes)

2014 State of Affairs as David Patrick (13 episodes)

2014 Manhattan as Reed Akley (10 episodes)

2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self (2 episodes)

2014 Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self (1 episode)

2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest (1 episode)

2013 Parkland as Gordon Shanklin

2013 Knife Fight as Stephen Green

2013 Snitch as Jay Price

2013 Banshee as Robert Dalton (2 episodes)

2013 Drunk History as Vietnam Memorial Head (1 episode)

2012 End of Watch as Van Hauser

2012 Thin Ice as Bob Egan

2012 Between Us as Joel

2012 Elementary as Dr. Mason Baldwin (1 episode)

2012 Blue as Cooper (3 episodes)

2012 The Newsroom as Elliot Hirsch (10 episodes)

2011 W.E. as Ernest

2011 The Green Hornet as Frank Scanlon

2011 Isolation as Dr. Sloan

2010 Every Day as Brian

2009 State of Play as PointCorp Insider

2009 Lie to Me as Frank Ambrose (1 episode)

2009 Royal Pains as Dan Samuels (1 episode)

2008 Revolutionary Road as Shep Campbell

2008 Quantum of Solace as Gregg Beam

2007 Awake as Dracula

2007 Midnight Son as Mulligan

2006 The Wedding Weekend as David

2006 The Unit as Gary Weber (1 episode)

2006 The Book of Daniel

2006 El hormiguero as Self - Guest (1 episode)

2005 Brokeback Mountain as Randall Malone

2005 Confess as Agent Jim McAllister

2005 War of the Worlds as Dock Worker

2004 Kinsey as Robert Kinsey

2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest (2 episodes)

2002 Hack as Christopher Clark (1 episode)

2001 The Invention of Love as Moses John Jackson

2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Paul Devildis (1 episode)

2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Wesley John Kanderson (1 episode)

1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Terry Jessup (1 episode)

1994 Extra as Self - Guest (1 episode)

1990 Law & Order as Mike (1 episode)

1990 Law & Order as Jay Carlin (1 episode)

1989 The Simpsons as Fred Kranepool (voice) (1 episode)

1984 Jeopardy! as Self - Clue Presenter (1 episode)

1975 Saturday Night Live as Self - Host (1 episode)

— The Trashers as Jimmy Galante

— Evil Genius

— A Head Full of Ghosts

Production

2026 DTF St. Louis Executive Producer

2019 Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein Executive Producer