David Kenneth Harbour (born April 10, 1975, in White Plains, New York) is an American actor who rose to global fame as police chief Jim Hopper in Netflix's Stranger Things (2016-2025), earning a Critics' Choice Award and two Emmy nominations for the role. He also plays Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and starred in the HBO dark comedy limited series DTF St. Louis (2026) alongside Jason Bateman. His stage roots run deep - he began on Broadway in 1999 and received a Tony nomination for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A trailer for Violent Night 2 was released, with Harbour returning to the role of Santa Claus; the film is released on December 4, 2026.
A seven-part dark comedy miniseries DTF St. Louis premiered on HBO, with Harbour playing the lead role alongside Jason Bateman and Linda Cardellini.
Stranger Things concluded its fifth and final season - the final episode was also shown in cinemas, where it earned approximately 25 million dollars in two days.
Harbour appeared in the Marvel film Thunderbolts*, where he again played the character Red Guardian / Alexei Shostakov.
Harbour left the upcoming film Behemoth! directed by Tony Gilroy; according to sources, he decided to take a break after the demanding conclusion of Stranger Things filming and promotion.
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