Christopher Heyerdahl
Christopher Heyerdahl (born September 18, 1963) is a Canadian actor who portrayed Alastair in Supernatural, the Wraith Todd in Stargate Atlantis, Sam in Van Helsing, "Swede" in Hell on Wheels, and Marcus in The Twilight Saga. Heyerdahl was born in British Columbia, and is of Norwegian and Scottish descent. His father emigrated from Norway to Canada in the 1950s. Thor Heyerdahl was his father's cousin. Heyerdahl also speaks Norwegian and studied at the University of Oslo. Heyerdahl is primarily known for his recurring role as the enigmatic and sinister "Swede" in AMC's Hell on Wheels. This post-American Civil War drama debuted as the second highest rated original series in AMC history. He is also known for his role as Leonid in the Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode "The Thirteenth Floor" and as Nosferatu in the episode "Midnight Madness". He played the characters Halling and Wraith commander Todd in Stargate Atlantis, and Pallan in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Revisions".He played H. P. Lovecraft in the film Out of Mind: The Stories of H. P. Lovecraft (1998) and a punk, new at drug dealing, in Cadavres (2009). He played the part of the demon Alastair in three episodes of Supernatural. He also played the part of Zor-El in the television series Smallville, as well as playing John Druitt and Bigfoot in the series Sanctuary. He played the part of Dieter Braun on True Blood during the show's 5th season. His most notable film role was in the feature film New Moon, an adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's second book in her Twilight Saga. In this film, he played a vampire, Marcus, who is part of a powerful Italian family called the Volturi. He reprised that role in both parts of Breaking Dawn, the two-part adaptation of the fourth book in the Twilight Saga. He has also performed on stage and was a member of the Young Company at the Stratford Festival in 1989 and 1990.
Known For
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- 2023 · Monarch: Legacy of Monsters as Puckett
- 2023 · The Boy in the Woods as Police Chief Bagan
- 2023 · Corner Office as Andrew
- 2022 · Viking as Roy Walker
- 2021 · Chapelwaite as Jakub
- 2020 · Psych 2: Lassie Come Home as Ova
- 2019 · Adopt a Highway as Jim
- 2019 · The InBetween as
- 2019 · Stockholm as Chief Mattsson
- 2019 · Deadly Class as Master Zane
- 2017 · Pure as Augustus Nickel
- 2016 · Honeyglue as Dennis
- 2016 · Pee-wee's Big Holiday as Ezekiel
- 2015 · Dig as Olaf
- 2014 · The Calling as Simon
- 2014 · Rush as Martin Arisson
- 2014 · Three Days in Havana as Anders
- 2012 · Bullet in the Face as Lustig Balder
- 2010 · Mirador as Grenier
- 2007 · Les Sœurs Elliot as Alcidez Barling
- 2007 · The Invisible as Dr. Woland
- 2007 · Killer Wave as Stanley Schiff
- 2006 · Le 7e Round as Arthur Kennedy
- 2006 · Whistler as Justin Talbert
- 2006 · Saved as John the Baptist
- 2004 · The Chronicles of Riddick as Helion Politico
- 2003 · The Tumultuous Adventures of Jack Carter as Lennie
- 2003 · Smallville: Chloe Chronicles as Dr. Arthur Walsh
- 2000 · Nuremberg as Ernst Kaltenbrunner
- 1999 · 2 Brothers as Bobby Vieira
- 1998 · Affliction as Frankie Lacoy
- 1997 · The Education of Little Tree as Pine Billy
- 1997 · Bleeders as Narrator (voice)
- 1997 · The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon as Fellow Gambler #2
- 1996 · Silent Trigger as O'Hara
- 1995 · The Maharaja's Daughter as Walt (as Chris Heyerdahl)
- 1994 · Highlander III: The Sorcerer as Ponytail
- Future · The Guardian Angel as Sergeant Braun
- 2024 · The Fast Runner as Shimon
- 2023 · Queen of Bones as Fredrik P Jensen
- 2023 · The Last of Us as Dr. Schoenheiss
- 2022 · Dark Winds as Dr. Reynolds
- 2022 · Under the Banner of Heaven as Ammon Lafferty
- 2022 · Peacemaker as Captain Caspar Locke
- 2021 · Them as The Black Hat Man
- 2020 · 50 States of Fright as Old Man
- 2020 · Messiah as Oscar Wallace
- 2019 · Togo as George Maynard
- 2019 · Project Blue Book as Edmund
- 2018 · Sicario: Day of the Soldado as Headmaster Deats
- 2017 · Damnation as Don Berryman
- 2017 · Star Trek: Discovery as Wen
- 2017 · Tin Star as Louis Gagnon
- 2017 · Midnight, Texas as Hightower
- 2016 · Travelers as Andrew Graham
- 2016 · MacGyver as David Arthur Faraday
- 2016 · Van Helsing as Sam
- 2016 · Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life as Arvid
- 2015 · The Player as Ivan Mislav
- 2015 · Minority Report as Dr. Lionel Gray
- 2015 · Eadweard as Pepper
- 2015 · 12 Monkeys as The Keeper
- 2014 · The Librarians as Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
- 2014 · Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce as Shaman Derek
- 2014 · Scorpion as President Korsovich
- 2014 · Gotham as Jack Gruber
- 2012 · The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as Marcus Volturi
- 2012 · Beauty and the Beast as Dr. Nicholas Markus
- 2012 · Arrow as Damian Darhk's Assistant
- 2012 · Vegas as Cal Sprouse
- 2011 · The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 as Marcus
- 2011 · Hell on Wheels as The Swede
- 2011 · Falling Skies as Duane Pickett
- 2011 · Let Your Fingers Do the Talking as Alby (voice)
- 2010 · R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour as Collector
- 2010 · Nikita as Matthew Collins
- 2010 · Caprica as Kevin Reikle
- 2010 · Caprica as Kevin Riekel
- 2010 · Human Target as Connor Dunham
- 2009 · The Twilight Saga: New Moon as Marcus
- 2009 · Stargate Atlantis: Fans' Choice as Halling/ Todd
- 2009 · Castle as Jacque Henri
- 2009 · Cadavres as Paolo
- 2008 · Sanctuary as John Druitt / Bigfoot
- 2008 · True Blood as Dieter Braun
- 2008 · Murdoch Mysteries as Jebediah Friessen
- 2007 · The Black Cat as Rufus Griswold
- 2006 · Psych as Long Hair
- 2005 · Masters of Horror as Rufus Griswold
- 2005 · Kamataki as Scott
- 2005 · Supernatural as Alastair
- 2005 · Into the West as James “Jim” Ebbets
- 2005 · The Outlander as Mike l'Irlandais
- 2004 · Blade: Trinity as Caulder
- 2004 · Life As We Know It as Mr. Mitchell
- 2004 · Catwoman as Rocker
- 2004 · Stargate Atlantis as Todd the Wraith
- 2004 · Stargate Atlantis as Halling
- 2004 · Stargate Atlantis as Todd
- 2004 · The Collector as Jan van der Heyden
- 2004 · The Last Tunnel as Smiley
- 2004 · Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital as Reverend Jimmy Criss
- 2002 · Napoleon as Geoffroy St-Hilaire
- 2002 · John Doe as Dr. Hillerman
- 2002 · Just Cause as Dr. Tolkien
- 2002 · The Dead Zone as Zed
- 2002 · India: Kingdom of the Tiger as Jim Corbett
- 2002 · Jeremiah as Paul Wiel
- 2002 · Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher as Dr. Jacob Mortas
- 2002 · Aftermath as Evan Harper
- 2001 · Smallville as Zor-El
- 2001 · Pig's Law as Jodorowsky (Junkie)
- 2001 · The Killing Yard as D.A.
- 2001 · Varian's War as Marius Franken
- 2001 · Nowhere in Sight as Lewis Gills
- 2000 · CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Marc Ratelle
- 2000 · Andromeda as Gaiton
- 2000 · Believe as Thad Stiles
- 2000 · The Witness as Bobby Fish
- 2000 · Press Run as Mickey Collins
- 1999 · Requiem for Murder as Detective Lou Heinz
- 1999 · Babel as Preficator (as Chris Heyerdahl)
- 1998 · The Ghosts of Dickens' Past as Charles Dickens
- 1998 · Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft as H.P. Lovecraft
- 1997 · The Peacekeeper as Hettinger
- 1997 · Stargate SG-1 as Pallan
- 1997 · The Hunger as Arthur
- 1997 · Twists of Terror as Darien
- 1997 · Coyote Run as Judd Lush
- 1997 · Habitat as Eric Thornton
- 1997 · Lassie as Alfred Kraus
- 1997 · La Femme Nikita as Colin Starnes
- 1996 · Rowing Through as Paul Enquist
- 1995 · Warriors as Milo
- 1994 · Obstruction of Justice as Thief #2
- 1992 · Are You Afraid of the Dark? as Nosferatu (as Chris Heyerdahl)
- 1992 · Are You Afraid of the Dark? as Leonid
- 1987 · 21 Jump Street as Jake
- Future · Underbelly as
- Future · Le train as