David Harbour
Actor
David Harbour is an American actor best known for playing Jim Hopper in Netflix’s Stranger Things. His career spans television, film, and theatre, with film roles including Hellboy, Black Widow, Thunderbolts and Violent Night. [7]
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Career and work
Harbour built his early career in theatre, film, and television. On Broadway, he appeared in productions including The Rainmaker, The Invention of Love, The Coast of Utopia, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. His performance as Nick in the 2005 revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play. [6]
He became widely known for playing police chief Jim Hopper in Netflix’s Stranger Things. The role earned him Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in both 2017 and 2018. [7]
Harbour’s film work includes playing the title role in Hellboy, Santa Claus in Violent Night, and Alexei Shostakov, the Red Guardian, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Black Widow and Thunderbolts. [8]
What has been publicly discussed
“My mental health disorder is something I live with, but it does not define me.”
— David Harbour [5]
