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David Harbour
From the Ivy Leagues to the Upside Down
If you haven’t seen the Netflix
original series “Stranger Things,”
I bet you’ve heard about it —
probably thanks to the outraged
cries of family and friends who
are caught up on the series. Once
you’ve experienced the sci-fi-
meets-horror-meets-coming-of-
age story that is the show’s first
two seasons, you may be sur-
prised to learn that the pill-pop-
ping, booze-guzzling, sarcastic
leading male, Chief Jim Hopper,
is played by an Ivy League gradu-
ate who grew up in a wealthy
family on the “right side of the
tracks.” However, the Dartmouth
frat-boy son of real estate agents
isn’t as dissimilar to his on-screen
character as it might seem at first
glance. As a child, David Harbour
felt disillusioned by his seemingly
perfect all-American life, unable
to reconcile the picket fences of
his childhood with the homeless-
ness he saw in the streets and
the violence on the news. This
awareness of the disenfranchised
and a desire to help others drove
Harbour towards acting, though
his privileged life didn’t help
much when he was starting out.
“In the community I grew up in,
people were successful ... and I
was doing plays where I wasn’t
making any money. Everybody
felt sorry for me, but I believe in
the power of theater” — and
the theater is where his career
began. After graduating in 1997,
David Harbour as seen in “Stranger Things”
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Harbour landed himself a few
off-Broadway shows and bit parts
in the “Law & Order” franchise
until 2005, when he got a part
in the Oscar-winner “Brokeback
Mountain” (2005). He nabbed a
Tony nomination that same year
for his role in a revival of “Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Wolf?” His ca-
reer was picking up, but Harbour’s
mental health was deteriorating.
In his mid 20s, with the help of
his parents and a desire to put
an end to his alcohol abuse and
self-medicating, Harbour was
voluntarily institutionalized and
diagnosed with bipolar disorder;
it took him some time to get back
on track, but he was soon work-
ing harder than ever. Harbour
began to land bigger roles in
films, playing a corrupt CIA chief
in “Quantum of Solace” (2008)
and an emasculated adulterer in
“Revolutionary Road” (2008).
He was no stranger to television,
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either. He landed parts in dramas
such as “Pan Am,” “Rake” and
“The Newsroom” until, in 2014,
he was cast as the White House
chief of staff in NBC’s “State of
Affairs.” Hearing that another of
his series would be canceled after
a single season, Harbour was sure
he was finished. Before leaving
the business for good, he received
a script from two young guys call-
ing themselves The Duffer Broth-
ers. In 2015, Harbour was sure the
part of Jim Hopper in “Stranger
Things” was out of his league, but
now he’s been nominated for Em-
mys and Golden Globes, and has
won Critics’ Choice and Golden
Derby Awards for Best Supporting
Actor in a Drama. When he looked
at the world as a young man, he
saw one that needed changing.
In 2018, he stood with his cast-
mates, SAG Award in hand, and
made a promise to peers and fans
alike: “We will repel bullies. We
will shelter freaks and outcasts
and those who have no home.
We will get past the lies. We will
hunt monsters!” A troubled ac-
tor became someone kids could
look up to, much like his character
Chief Hopper. You can binge the
third season of “Stranger Things”
when it premieres Thursday, July
4, on Netflix.
FACTS
- Born April 10, 1975, in White
Plains, New York (age 44)
- Graduated from Dartmouth,
where he was a member of the
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity
- Is dating musician and
actress Alison Sudol, who plays
Queenie in “Fantastic Beasts and
Where to Find Them” (2016)
- Was engaged to actres Maria
Thayer (“Strangers With Candy”)
- Had a crush on his “Stranger
Things” co-star Winona Ryder in
high school
- Is a student of the same act-
ing teacher that Philip Seymour
Hoffman (“Capote,” 2005) had
QUOTES:
“One of the things about hav-
ing played a lot of villains is ... I
don’t have the same experience
of someone who maybe has
been a leading man since they
were 22 and therefore looks at
certain things in a character to
romanticize themselves. I actu-
ally very much embrace the bad
stuff.”
“Why do we just walk by the
homeless? Why do we tolerate
violence? From 5 years old, I’ve
had these questions.”
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