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.

KNOWN FOR

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2019
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
2002
Law & Order
1999
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2019
The Simpsons
2020
Saturday Night Live
2019
Jeopardy!
2025
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2009
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2022
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2021
Stranger Things
2016
Elementary
2012

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
97
Producing
3
Crew
1
2027
Avengers: Secret Wars
as Alexei Shostakov · unreleased
2027
John Rambo
as Major Trautman · unreleased
2026
Violent Night 2
as Santa Claus · unreleased
2026
Avengers: Doomsday
as Alexei Shostakov · unreleased
2026
GOAT
as Archie Everhardt (voice)
2026
Evil Genius
2026
One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
as Self (uncredited)
2026
DTF St. Louis
as Floyd Smernitch
2026
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2026
The Emmy Awards
as Self
2025
Night of the Zoopocalypse
as Dan (voice)
2025
Thunderbolts*
as Alexei Shostakov
2025
A Working Man
as Gunny Lefferty
2025
Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
as Self - 'Stranger Things' Jim Hopper
2025
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
as Self
2025
Marvel Zombies
as Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian (voice)
2025
Jeopardy!
as Self - Clue Presenter
2024
Creature Commandos
as Frankenstein (voice)
2024
What If...?
as Alexei Shostakov (voice)
2024
What If...?
as Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian (voice)
2023
Gran Turismo
as Jack Salter
2023
We Have a Ghost
as Ernest
2022
Violent Night
as Santa
2022
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
2022
Animal
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
Black Widow
as Alexei
2021
No Sudden Move
as Matt Wertz
2021
Q-Force
as Buck (voice)
2021
Hot Ones
as Self
2021
Marvel Studios Assembled
as Self
2021
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2020
Extraction
as Gaspar
2020
The Simpsons
as Fred Kranepool (voice)
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
2019
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2019
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2019
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
2019
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2019
El hormiguero
as Self - Guest
2018
Human Affairs
as Ronnie
2018
Animals.
as Hawk (voice)
2018
Drunk History
as Vietnam Memorial Head
2017
Sleepless
as Doug Dennison
2017
Beyond Stranger Things
as Self
2017
Extra
as Self - Guest
2016
Suicide Squad
as Dexter Tolliver
2016
Stranger Things
as Jim Hopper
2016
Crisis in Six Scenes
as Vic
2015
Black Mass
as John Morris
2015
Banshee
as Robert Dalton
2014
A Walk Among the Tombstones
as Ray
2014
The Equalizer
as Masters
2014
X/Y
as Todd
2014
Rake
as David Potter
2014
State of Affairs
as David Patrick
2014
Manhattan
as Reed Akley
2013
Parkland
as Gordon Shanklin
2013
Knife Fight
as Stephen Green
2013
Snitch
as Jay Price
2012
End of Watch
as Van Hauser
2012
Thin Ice
as Bob Egan
2012
Between Us
as Joel
2012
Elementary
as Dr. Mason Baldwin
2012
Blue
as Cooper
2012
The Newsroom
as Elliot Hirsch
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
2009
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Paul Devildis
2009
Royal Pains
as Dan Samuels
2008
Revolutionary Road
as Shep Campbell
2008
Quantum of Solace
as Gregg Beam
2008
Law & Order
as Jay Carlin
2007
Awake
as Dracula
2007
Midnight Son
as Mulligan
2007
The Unit
as Gary Weber
2006
The Wedding Weekend
as David
2006
The Book of Daniel
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
2004
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Wesley John Kanderson
2003
Hack
as Christopher Clark
2002
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Terry Jessup
2001
The Invention of Love
as Moses John Jackson
1999
Law & Order
as Mike
The Trashers
as Jimmy Galante
A Head Full of Ghosts
as John
Little One
Untitled Lily Allen Documentary
as Self
Untitled Jack Thorne Spy Thriller
as Matt Wolfe