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.

Filmography

• 2027Avengers: Secret Wars — Alexei Shostakov
• 2027John Rambo — Major Trautman
• 2026Avengers: Doomsday — Alexei Shostakov
• DTF St. Louis — Floyd Smernitch, Executive Producer
• 2026Evil Genius
• 2026GOAT — Archie Everhardt (voice)
• Stranger Things: Tales from '85 — Thanks
• 2026Violent Night 2 — Santa Claus
• 2025A Working Man — Gunny Lefferty
• Marvel Zombies — Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian (voice)
• 2025Night of the Zoopocalypse — Dan (voice)
• 2025Thunderbolts* — Alexei Shostakov
• Creature Commandos — Frankenstein (voice)
• 2023Gran Turismo — Jack Salter
• 2023We Have a Ghost — Ernest
• 2022Violent Night — Santa
• 2021Black Widow — Alexei
• 2021No Sudden Move — Matt Wertz
• Q-Force — Buck (voice)
• What If...? — Alexei Shostakov (voice), Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian (voice)
• 2020Extraction — Gaspar
• 2019Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein — David Harbour III / David Harbour Jr. / Frankenstein, Executive Producer
• 2019Hellboy — Hellboy / Anung Un Rama
• 2018Human Affairs — Ronnie
• 2017Sleepless — Doug Dennison
• Animals. — Hawk (voice)
• Crisis in Six Scenes — Vic
• Stranger Things — Jim Hopper
• 2016Suicide Squad — Dexter Tolliver
• 2015Black Mass — John Morris
• 2014A Walk Among the Tombstones — Ray
• Manhattan — Reed Akley
• Rake — David Potter
• State of Affairs — David Patrick
• 2014The Equalizer — Masters
• 2014X/Y — Todd
• Banshee — Robert Dalton
• Drunk History — Vietnam Memorial Head
• 2013Knife Fight — Stephen Green
• 2013Parkland — Gordon Shanklin
• 2013Snitch — Jay Price
• 2012Between Us — Joel
• Blue — Cooper
• Elementary — Dr. Mason Baldwin
• 2012End of Watch — Van Hauser
• The Newsroom — Elliot Hirsch
• 2012Thin Ice — Bob Egan
• 2011Isolation — Dr. Sloan
• 2011The Green Hornet — Frank Scanlon
• 2011W.E. — Ernest
• 2010Every Day — Brian
• Lie to Me — Frank Ambrose
• Royal Pains — Dan Samuels
• 2009State of Play — PointCorp Insider
• 2008Quantum of Solace — Gregg Beam
• 2008Revolutionary Road — Shep Campbell
• 2007Awake — Dracula
• 2007Midnight Son — Mulligan
• The Book of Daniel
• The Unit — Gary Weber
• 2006The Wedding Weekend — David
• 2005Brokeback Mountain — Randall Malone
• 2005Confess — Agent Jim McAllister
• 2005War of the Worlds — Dock Worker
• 2004Kinsey — Robert Kinsey
• Hack — Christopher Clark
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Paul Devildis, Wesley John Kanderson
• 2001The Invention of Love — Moses John Jackson
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Terry Jessup
• Law & Order — Mike, Jay Carlin
• The Simpsons — Fred Kranepool (voice)
• A Head Full of Ghosts — John
• Little One
• The Trashers — Jimmy Galante
• Untitled Jack Thorne Spy Thriller — Matt Wolfe, Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (19)

• 2026One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 — Self (uncredited)
• 2025Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow — Self - 'Stranger Things' Jim Hopper
• 2025SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — Self
• Animal — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Marvel Studios Assembled — Self
• 2019Tales of the Wild Hunt: Hellboy Reborn — Self
• Beyond Stranger Things — Self
• Hot Ones — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self - Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self, Self - Guest
• Off Camera with Sam Jones — Self
• El hormiguero — Self - Guest
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• Extra — Self - Guest
• Jeopardy! — Self - Clue Presenter
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• The Emmy Awards — Self
• Untitled Lily Allen Documentary — Self