“I grew up doing regional Shakespeare, and when Hamlet sees the ghost of his father, there's something about that that you don't really do in film anymore.”

American actor

David Kenneth Harbour is an American actor known for his screen work in film and television. He became widely recognized for playing Jim Hopper in the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things, which ran from 2016 to 2025, and he received two Primetime Emmy nominations for that role. He has also starred as the title character in Hellboy, as Santa Claus in Violent Night, and as a former racer in Gran Turismo. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he plays Red Guardian, including in Black Widow and Thunderbolts*, and he also voices Eric Frankenstein in Creature Commandos. In 2026, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his performance in DTF St. Louis.