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David Kenneth Harbour (born April 10, 1975) is an American actor. He has received nominations for a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. David began his career acting in Shakespearean theatre productions. After his professional debut on Broadway in the 1999 revival of The Rainmaker, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He made his television debut on Law & Order in 1999 and had supporting roles in films such as Brokeback Mountain (2005), Revolutionary Road (2008) and Black Mass (2015). Harbour gained global recognition for his portrayal of Jim Hopper in the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things (2016–2025), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. His starring film roles include the title character in Hellboy (2019), Santa Claus in Violent Night (2022) and a former racer in the sports film Gran Turismo (2023). Harbour has played Red Guardian in the Marvel Cinematic Universe media franchise, beginning with the film Black Widow (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article David Harbour, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

David Harbour

Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian
for Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian in Black Widow & Hawkeye
Suggested by stevenkelly

Years before the Battle of New York and before the Avengers ever assembled, Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff undertook one mission that never appeared in any S.H.I.E.L.D. file. Sent to recover a classified intelligence archive known as the Janus Protocol, they discover that it is capable of exposing every undercover S.H.I.E.L.D. operative around the globe. After discovering that powerful figures across the world's intelligence agencies intend to weaponize the information rather than destroy it, Clint and Natasha fake the mission as a failure and hide the drive before anyone can find it. Only the two of them know where the secret died...until Natasha's sacrifice on Vormir leaves Clint as its sole guardian. Years later, someone uncovers clues leading to the Janus Protocol. Fifteen years later, Natasha is gone, Clint has retired, and a new threat emerges. Criminal mastermind Madame Masque begins hunting the lost archive, forcing Kate Bishop and Yelena Belova to finish the mission that Clint and Natasha never could. As the film shifts between timelines, the audience watches the legendary partnership of Hawkeye and Black Widow while seeing their legacy live on through the next generation.