David Harbour

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**David Kenneth Harbour** (born April 10, 1975) is an American actor. He has played supporting roles in films such as *Brokeback Mountain* (2005), *Quantum of Solace* (2008), *State of Play* (2009), *The Green Hornet* (2011), *End of Watch* (2012), *Snitch* (2013), *The Equalizer* (2014), *Black Mass* (2015), *Suicide Squad* (2016), *Sleepless* (2017) and *Extraction* (2020). 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).

## Early life

David Kenneth Harbour was born on April 10, 1975, in White Plains, New York, to parents Kenneth and Nancy (née Riley) Harbour. Both of his parents work in real estate, his mother in residential and his father in commercial. He attended Byram Hills High School in Armonk, New York, along with actors Sean Maher and Eyal Podell. Harbour graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1997. While at Dartmouth, Harbour majored in drama and Italian, and was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

## Career

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Harbour began acting professionally on Broadway in 1999, in the revival of *The Rainmaker*. He then made his television debut that same year in an episode of *Law & Order*, playing a waiter. He appeared again in 2002 in an episode of *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit*, playing a child murderer. Harbour portrayed the recurring role of MI6 Agent Roger Anderson in the ABC series *Pan Am*. In 2005, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in a production of *Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?*.

Harbour is also known for his role as CIA Agent Gregg Beam in *Quantum of Solace*, as Shep Campbell in *Revolutionary Road*, and as Russell Crowe's source in *State of Play*. He also received praise for his role as spree killer Paul Devildis in a 2009 episode of *Law & Order: Criminal Intent*. Harbour's other film credits include *Brokeback Mountain*, *The Green Hornet*, *End of Watch*, and *Between Us*. In 2013, he played a small role of a head doctor in the television series *Elementary*. From 2012 to 2014, he also played the recurring role of Elliot Hirsch in *The Newsroom*.

In 2014, Harbour portrayed the recurring character of Dr. Reed Akley in the first season of the historical drama series *Manhattan*. In 2015, Harbour was cast as Chief Jim Hopper in the Netflix science fiction horror series *Stranger Things*. For his role in the series, Harbour has received nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2017 and 2018) and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2018). Harbour has won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2017) along with the rest of the cast.

Harbour starred as the title character in the superhero reboot film *Hellboy* (2019). He most recently portrayed Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film *Black Widow* (2021), and will reprise the role in the upcoming film *Thunderbolts* (2024).

## Personal life

Harbour had a relationship with Alison Sudol. Since 2019, Harbour has been in a relationship with singer Lily Allen. They made their red carpet debut during the 26th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. A day after they obtained their marriage license, attended by Allen's two daughters, they married on September 7, 2020 in Las Vegas, in a wedding that was officiated by an Elvis impersonator.

Harbour previously followed several religions, including Catholicism and Buddhism. He is a former believer in the paranormal.

In an interview with *The Guardian* covering his role in *Black Widow* in July 2021, Harbour said he was a socialist, stating "I don't know that there's anyone who could disagree with socialist ideology," and later, "the idea of a kindergarten-type society where we share things is my ideal society; as opposed to this world where we're hunting and killing and destroying for our own personal hoarding, our own personal greed."

Harbour struggled with alcoholism in his past, and has been sober since his early twenties. He began drinking as a teenager and the habit worsened during college. He decided to stop drinking after feeling "very lonely and needing a different direction in my life" and has said "I enjoy consciousness too much now" to drink again.

At age 26, Harbour was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

## Filmography

### Television

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## References

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