His character in this science fiction-horror television series earned him worldwide recognition. Not to mention the actor also won the 2018 Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He further received 1 Golden Globe Award nomination and 2 Primetime Emmy Award nominations. According to reports, David Harbour’s per episode salary is around $350 Thousand in “Stranger Things“. Apart from his performance in that series, he also made his appearances in numerous films where he had supporting roles. He starred in movies such as Quantum of Solace, Brokeback Mountain, The Green Hornet, End of Watch, Red Guardian in Black Widow, and many others. Over the course of three seasons in Stranger Things, he became like an adopted father to the young cast members both on and off-screen. And now, David’s embracing that role in real life after marrying singer Lily Allen during the recent pandemic and becoming a step-father to her two young daughters.
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Early Life:
David K. Harbour was born in White Plains, New York, on the 10th of April 1975. His parents Kenneth and Nancy Harbour worked as real estate agents with his mother handling the residential side of the business and his father concentrating more on the commercial front. When David was in the eighth grade his life would transform permanently when he saw Kenneth Brauna’s film adaptation of Henry V which firmly set him on his way toward becoming an actor. David attended Byram Hills High School in Armonk, New York, and after graduation, he moved on to Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he earned majors in both drama and Italian in 1997.
Early Career:
David’s earliest acting career took place in a theater on Broadway and he was able to win parts that he found to be incredibly rewarding complex and rich, like a revival of “The Rainmaker” alongside Woody Harrelson in 1999. He played the role of Mike in the episode of the television series Law & Order which was his TV debut. He then continued to play minor roles in TV shows such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2002), and War of the Worlds. David gained some early recognition for his recurring role in a production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf where he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in 2005. By the end of the 2000s and even well into the 2010s David had mostly resigned himself to looking at his Hollywood gigs as a means to an end. While continuing to book some small roles in big-time movies such as Revolutionary Road, the James Bond film Quantum of Solace, State of Play, Brokeback Mountain, and End of Watch, David was finding much more recognition on the stage. The film Quantum of Solace was filmed on a budget of $200 million and it became a massive success and gross over $590 million at the box office. In 2011 David played the role of D.A. Frank Scanlon in the superhero-based film The Green Hornet and followed that up in the romantic film W.E. In the following year David was cast as Joel in the drama film Between Us. He then got some recurring roles in television series including Elementary (2013), Manhattan (2014), and The Newsroom (2012–2014).
Stranger Things:
The breakthrough moment of David’s career came when he was cast in the popular Netflix series “Stranger Things” as Chief Jim Hopper, a role that altered the course of his career. He described the experience by saying “It’s likely one of the greatest honors of my life to be able to play such a beautifully written character. Apart from his role is successful, the show itself became well-received and led all the cast to receive numerous awards. His performance in the series earned him a Screen Actor’s Guild Award as well as two Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe Award nomination.
Beyond just the critical accolades that David has won for his performance in Stranger Things is the love he now gets from his millions of fans all around the globe. Whether it’s a student asking him to appear alongside her in her high school photographs, or even getting himself ordained as a minister to officiate a fan’s marriage ceremony. After getting massive success from Stranger Things, David started getting roles in a big production and he got his first starring in the superhero reboot film Hellboy in 2019 in which he played the film’s title role. Unfortunately, the film was made on a budget of $50 million and it became a commercial and critical flop and grossed only $55 million. Harbour also played roles in films such as Extraction, and No Sudden Move, but he only garnered a lot of fame from Stranger Things in which he has been playing the role of Police Chief Jim Hopper since 2016. In 2021, David played the role of Red Guardian in the American superhero-based film “Black Widow.” After being cast in Stranger Things, David starred in several other TV projects including, Drunk History, the animated Animals, El Hormiguero 3.0, as host in Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, the animated film Big City Greens, the Netflix animated comedy series Q-Force, as well as played the voice character of Tajin in the 2021 animated anthology series Star Wars: Visions.
Theater Work:
After being cast in the production of The Rainmaker, Harbour continued to work in numerous theater productions including The Invention of Love (2001), Twelfth Night (2002), Fifth of July (2003), The Two Noble Kinsmen (2003), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2005), a series of The Coast of Utopia, Hamlet (2008), Time Stands Still (2009), and many others. He portrayed Bassanio in the Broadhurst Theatre of The Merchant of Venice (2010-11) and followed in Romeo and Juliet (2012). From 2012 to 2013 David was cast as John Williamson in the play Glengarry Glen Ross.
Awards and Nominations:
David Harbour won the 2017 Screen Actors Guild Awards in the Great Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series category for his work in Stranger Things. His performance in the series also led him to win the Critics’ Choice Television Awards in the category of Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2018. David earned several award nominations including a Tony Awards, Primetime Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Golden Raspberry Awards, and many others.
Personal Life:
During the set of the 2012s film Between Us David met actress Julia Stiles and the two began dating shortly after. The two were spotted together in several places including shopping on the streets as well as at the red carpet events. The couple also resided in New York City and after dating for almost 4 years they broke up. In early 2018 David announced that he is romantically linked with actress and singer Alison Sudol. The couple began dating and were spotted together at red carpet events, and several other occasions. However, their relationship lasted for only one year. In 2019 David Harbour eventually found love after falling in love with singer and actress, Lily Allen during the worldwide pandemic. David married her in September 2020 and became the stepfather of her two young daughters. David started dating musician and actress, Lily Allen. They got married in September 2020 in an intimate ceremony where only Lily’s two daughters (from an earlier relationship) were present.
Health Issues:
By the time Harbour was in his early 20s he found himself struggling not only with his rookie acting career but with alcoholism as well. At one point things got so rough even considered ending his life. In fact, the only thing that saved his life was his pet cat and he says “What’s stopped me was going, I love this cat, who will take care of this cat, also I was horrified by the idea of dying my flat, not being discovered for a week and having a cat eat me.” David fought hard to earn sobriety but he set black again when he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 25 after a manic episode brought on by becoming obsessed with finding answers to one of the world’s most enduring questions.
Salary Details:
David’s life would completely change in 2016 when he got a role in “Stranger Things“, in which his per episode salary was $100 thousand for the 1st and seasons season. After appearing in 17 episodes of the two seasons he earned a total amount of $1.7 million. Harbour saw an incredible change in the third season of the show where his per-episode salary was around $350 thousand. His co-star Winona Ryder was also earning a salary of $350,000 in the 3rd season. During the third season of Stranger Things, the actor has accumulated a total worth of $3 million through salaries.
David Harbour owns a luxury Audi A6 which cost him around $54,000.
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