David Kenneth Harbour is an American actor. He has played supporting roles in films such as
War of the Worlds (2005),
Awake (2007),
Revolutionary Road (2008),
W.E. (2011),
Knife Fight (2012),
Parkland (2013),
A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014),
Black Mass (2015),
Suicide Squad (2016),
Sleepless (2017), and
No Sudden Move (2021). He gained global recognition for his portrayal of Jim Hopper in the Netflix science fiction drama series
Stranger Things (2016–present), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Award in 2018, two Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination. Harbour portrayed the title character in
Hellboy (2019), Red Guardian in
Black Widow (2021) and the upcoming film
Thunderbolts (2024), and Santa Claus in
Violent Night (2022).