Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
September 18, 1963
Place of Birth:
British Columbia, Canada
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Christopher Heyerdahl
Biography
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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Queen of Bones | Fredrik P Jensen |
| 2025 | Catharsis | Stepfather |
| 2024 | The Fast Runner | Shimon |
| 2023 | The Boy in the Woods | Police Chief Bagan |
| 2023 | Corner Office | Andrew |
| 2022 | Viking | Roy Walker |
| 2020 | Psych 2: Lassie Come Home | Ova |
| 2019 | Stockholm | Chief Mattsson |
| 2019 | Adopt a Highway | Jim |
| 2019 | Togo | George Maynard |
| 2018 | Sicario: Day of the Soldado | Headmaster Deats |
| 2016 | Honeyglue | Dennis |
| 2016 | Pee-wee's Big Holiday | Ezekiel |
| 2015 | Eadweard | Pepper |
| 2014 | Three Days in Havana | Anders |
| 2014 | The Calling | Simon |
| 2012 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 | Marcus |
| 2011 | Let Your Fingers Do the Talking | Alby (voice) |
| 2011 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 | Marcus |
| 2009 | Cadavres | Paolo |
| 2009 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | Marcus |
| 2009 | Stargate Atlantis: Fans' Choice | Halling/ Todd |
| 2007 | The Invisible | Dr. Woland |
| 2007 | The Black Cat | Rufus Griswold |
| 2005 | Kamataki | Scott |
| 2005 | The Outlander | Mike l'Irlandais |
| 2004 | Catwoman | Rocker |
| 2004 | The Last Tunnel | Smiley |
| 2004 | Blade: Trinity | Caulder |
| 2004 | The Chronicles of Riddick | Helion Politico |
| 2002 | India: Kingdom of the Tiger | Jim Corbett |
| 2002 | Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher | Dr. Jacob Mortas |
| 2002 | Aftermath | Evan Harper |
| 2001 | Varian's War | Marius Franken |
| 2001 | Nowhere in Sight | Lewis Gills |
| 2001 | Pig's Law | Jodorowsky (Junkie) |
| 2001 | The Killing Yard | D.A. |
| 2000 | Believe | Thad Stiles |
| 2000 | The Witness | Bobby Fish |
| 2000 | Press Run | Mickey Collins |
| 1999 | Babel | Preficator (as Chris Heyerdahl) |
| 1999 | Requiem for Murder | Detective Lou Heinz |
| 1998 | Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft | H.P. Lovecraft |
| 1998 | The Ghosts of Dickens' Past | Charles Dickens |
| 1997 | Coyote Run | Judd Lush |
| 1997 | Affliction | Frankie Lacoy |
| 1997 | The Education of Little Tree | Pine Billy |
| 1997 | The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon | Fellow Gambler #2 |
| 1997 | Twists of Terror | Darien |
| 1997 | Habitat | Eric Thornton |
| 1997 | Bleeders | Narrator (voice) |
| 1997 | The Peacekeeper | Hettinger |
| 1996 | Rowing Through | Paul Enquist |
| 1996 | Silent Trigger | O'Hara |
| 1995 | Warriors | Milo |
| 1994 | Obstruction of Justice | Thief #2 |
| 1994 | Highlander III: The Sorcerer | Ponytail |
| The Guardian Angel | Sergeant Braun | |
| Le train |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Monarch: Legacy of Monsters | Puckett |
| 2023 | The Last of Us | Dr. Schoenheist - Scientist #1 |
| 2022 | Under the Banner of Heaven | Ammon Lafferty |
| 2022 | Peacemaker | Captain Caspar Locke |
| 2022 | Dark Winds | Dr. Reynolds |
| 2021 | Chapelwaite | Jakub |
| 2021 | Them | The Black Hat Man |
| 2020 | 50 States of Fright | Old Man |
| 2020 | Messiah | Oscar Wallace |
| 2019 | Project Blue Book | Edmund |
| 2019 | The InBetween | |
| 2019 | Deadly Class | Master Zane |
| 2017 | Pure | Augustus Nickel |
| 2017 | Tin Star | Louis Gagnon |
| 2017 | Damnation | Don Berryman |
| 2017 | Midnight, Texas | Hightower |
| 2017 | Star Trek: Discovery | Wen |
| 2016 | Van Helsing | Sam |
| 2016 | Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life | Arvid |
| 2016 | MacGyver | David Arthur Faraday |
| 2016 | Travelers | Andrew Graham |
| 2015 | Minority Report | Dr. Lionel Gray |
| 2015 | The Player | Ivan Mislav |
| 2015 | Dig | Olaf |
| 2015 | 12 Monkeys | The Keeper |
| 2014 | Gotham | Jack Gruber |
| 2014 | Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce | Shaman Derek |
| 2014 | Rush | Martin Arisson |
| 2014 | Scorpion | President Korsovich |
| 2014 | The Librarians | Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin |
| 2012 | Arrow | Damian Darhk's Assistant |
| 2012 | Beauty and the Beast | Dr. Nicholas Markus |
| 2012 | Vegas | Cal Sprouse |
| 2012 | Bullet in the Face | Lustig Balder |
| 2012 | Honest Trailers | Marcus (archive footage) |
| 2011 | Hell on Wheels | The Swede |
| 2011 | Falling Skies | Duane Pickett |
| 2010 | Nikita | Matthew Collins |
| 2010 | Human Target | Connor Dunham |
| 2010 | Mirador | Grenier |
| 2010 | R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour | Collector |
| 2010 | Caprica | Kevin Reikle |
| 2010 | Caprica | Kevin Riekel |
| 2009 | Castle | Jacque Henri |
| 2008 | Sanctuary | John Druitt / Bigfoot |
| 2008 | True Blood | Dieter Braun |
| 2008 | Murdoch Mysteries | Jebediah Friessen |
| 2007 | Les Sœurs Elliot | Alcidez Barling |
| 2007 | Killer Wave | Stanley Schiff |
| 2006 | Whistler | Justin Talbert |
| 2006 | Saved | John the Baptist |
| 2006 | Le 7e Round | Arthur Kennedy |
| 2006 | Psych | Long Hair |
| 2005 | Masters of Horror | Rufus Griswold |
| 2005 | Into the West | James “Jim” Ebbets |
| 2005 | Supernatural | Alastair |
| 2004 | Stargate Atlantis | Todd the Wraith |
| 2004 | Stargate Atlantis | Halling |
| 2004 | The Collector | Jan van der Heyden |
| 2004 | Life As We Know It | Mr. Mitchell |
| 2004 | Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital | Reverend Jimmy Criss |
| 2004 | Stargate Atlantis | Todd |
| 2003 | Smallville: Chloe Chronicles | Dr. Arthur Walsh |
| 2003 | The Tumultuous Adventures of Jack Carter | Lennie |
| 2002 | The Dead Zone | Zed |
| 2002 | Just Cause | Dr. Tolkien |
| 2002 | Jeremiah | Paul Wiel |
| 2002 | John Doe | Dr. Hillerman |
| 2002 | Napoleon | Geoffroy St-Hilaire |
| 2001 | Smallville | Zor-El |
| 2000 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Marc Ratelle |
| 2000 | Andromeda | Gaiton |
| 2000 | Nuremberg | Ernst Kaltenbrunner |
| 1999 | 2 Brothers | Bobby Vieira |
| 1997 | La Femme Nikita | Colin Starnes |
| 1997 | Lassie | Alfred Kraus |
| 1997 | The Hunger | Arthur |
| 1997 | Stargate SG-1 | Pallan |
| 1995 | The Maharaja's Daughter | Walt (as Chris Heyerdahl) |
| 1992 | Are You Afraid of the Dark? | Nosferatu (as Chris Heyerdahl) |
| 1992 | Are You Afraid of the Dark? | Leonid |
| 1987 | 21 Jump Street | Jake |
| The Borderline |