Which character is the sheriff of Hawkins in Stranger Things?

Jim Hopper is the sheriff of Hawkins in Stranger Things. He leads the town’s police department and becomes one of the principal investigators of its supernatural events.

Hopper is a former New York City police officer who returns to his hometown after the death of his young daughter, Sara. At the beginning of the series, he appears disillusioned and drinks heavily, but Will Byers’s disappearance draws him into a determined search for the truth.

Hopper develops a protective relationship with Eleven and eventually becomes her adoptive father. He also forms a romantic relationship with Joyce Byers. Although he appears to die during the destruction of the Russian gate in season 3, season 4 reveals that he survived and was imprisoned in Kamchatka.