David Harbour

Acting · Born 1975-04-10 in New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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…

Filmography

• Revolutionary Road as Shep Campbell
• Violent Night as Santa
• End of Watch as Van Hauser
• The Equalizer as Masters
• Thunderbolts* as Alexei Shostakov
• Gran Turismo as Jack Salter
• Brokeback Mountain as Randall Malone
• Extraction as Gaspar
• Black Widow as Alexei
• War of the Worlds as Dock Worker

TV

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Terry Jessup
• Lie to Me as Frank Ambrose
• Creature Commandos as Frankenstein (voice)
• Elementary as Dr. Mason Baldwin
• Banshee as Robert Dalton
• Stranger Things as Jim Hopper
• The Newsroom as Elliot Hirsch
• The Simpsons as Fred Kranepool (voice)
• What If...? as Alexei Shostakov (voice)
• What If...? as Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian (voice)