David Kenneth Harbour, born April 10, 1975, is a critically acclaimed American actor. He began his career as a Shakespearean actor, making his professional debut on Broadway in 1999 in the revival of The Rainmaker. His performance in a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? earned him a Tony Award nomination. Harbour's television debut was on Law & Order in the same year, and he followed this with supporting roles in impactful films such as Brokeback Mountain, Revolutionary Road and Black Mass. He garnered international recognition through his role as Jim Hopper in the popular Netflix series Stranger Things, a role which he's played since 2016 and has won him a Critics' Choice Television Award as well as Primetime Emmy nominations. Other notable roles of his include the titular character in Hellboy, Santa Claus in Violent Night, and Red Guardian in the Marvel movie Black Widow. Born and raised in White Plains, New York, Harbour nurtured his love for acting from a young age and went on to major in Drama and Italian at Dartmouth College from which he graduated in 1997.