Christopher Heyerdahl
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 18, 1963 (age 63)
- Birthplace
- British Columbia, Canada
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.
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Filmography
The Vampire Lestat
TV · as Marius de Romanus · 3 eps
The Borderline
TV · as Charlie · 6 eps
Queen of Bones
Movie · as Fredrik P Jensen
The Train
Movie · as Jack
Catharsis
Movie · as Stepfather
The Fast Runner
Movie · as Shimon
The Boy in the Woods
Movie · as Police Chief Bagan
Corner Office
Movie · as Andrew
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
TV · as Puckett · 5 eps
The Last of Us
TV · as Dr. Schoenheist - Scientist #1 · 1 ep
Viking
Movie · as Roy Walker
Under the Banner of Heaven
TV · as Ammon Lafferty · 2 eps
Peacemaker
TV · as Captain Caspar Locke · 4 eps
Dark Winds
TV · as Dr. Reynolds · 3 eps
Billy the Kid
TV · as McDaniels · 1 ep
Chapelwaite
TV · as Jakub · 5 eps
Them
TV · as The Black Hat Man · 7 eps
Psych 2: Lassie Come Home
Movie · as Ova Asblorn
50 States of Fright
TV · as Old Man · 2 eps
Messiah
TV · as Oscar Wallace · 1 ep
Stockholm
Movie · as Chief Mattsson
Adopt a Highway
Movie · as Jim
Togo
Movie · as George Maynard
Project Blue Book
TV · as Edmund · 1 ep
The InBetween
TV · 1 ep
Deadly Class
TV · as Master Zane · 2 eps
The Guardian Angel
Movie · as Sergeant Braun
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Movie · as Headmaster Deats
Pure
TV · as Augustus Nickel · 6 eps
Tin Star
TV · as Louis Gagnon · 10 eps
Damnation
TV · as Don Berryman · 10 eps
Midnight, Texas
TV · as Hightower · 1 ep
Star Trek: Discovery
TV · as Wen · 1 ep
Honeyglue
Movie · as Dennis
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
Movie · as Ezekiel
Van Helsing
TV · as Sam · 27 eps
Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life
TV · as Arvid · 1 ep
MacGyver
TV · as David Arthur Faraday · 1 ep
Travelers
TV · as Andrew Graham · 1 ep
Eadweard
Movie · as Pepper
Minority Report
TV · as Dr. Lionel Gray · 3 eps
The Player
TV · as Ivan Mislav · 1 ep
Dig
TV · as Olaf · 2 eps
12 Monkeys
TV · as The Keeper · 1 ep
Three Days in Havana
Movie · as Anders
The Calling
Movie · as Simon
Gotham
TV · as Jack Gruber · 2 eps
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce
TV · as Shaman Derek · 1 ep
Rush
TV · as Martin Arisson · 1 ep
Scorpion
TV · as President Korsovich · 1 ep
The Librarians
TV · as Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin · 1 ep
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Movie · as Marcus
Arrow
TV · as Damian Darhk's Assistant · 1 ep
Beauty and the Beast
TV · as Dr. Nicholas Markus · 1 ep
Bullet in the Face
TV · as Lustig Balder · 1 ep
Let Your Fingers Do the Talking
Movie · as Alby (voice)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
Movie · as Marcus
Hell on Wheels
TV · as The Swede · 57 eps
Falling Skies
TV · as Duane Pickett · 1 ep
Nikita
TV · as Matthew Collins · 1 ep
Human Target
TV · as Connor Dunham · 1 ep
Mirador
TV · as Grenier · 3 eps
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
TV · as Collector · 1 ep
Caprica
TV · as Kevin Reikle, Kevin Riekel · 3 eps
Cadavres
Movie · as Paolo
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Movie · as Marcus
Stargate Atlantis: Fans' Choice
Movie · as Halling/ Todd
Castle
TV · as Jacque Henri · 1 ep
Sanctuary
TV · as John Druitt / Bigfoot · 59 eps
True Blood
TV · as Dieter Braun · 6 eps
Murdoch Mysteries
TV · as Jebediah Friessen · 1 ep
The Invisible
Movie · as Dr. Woland
The Black Cat
Movie · as Rufus Griswold
Les Sœurs Elliot
TV · as Alcidez Barling · 10 eps
Killer Wave
TV · as Stanley Schiff · 2 eps
Whistler
TV · as Justin Talbert · 1 ep
Saved
TV · as John the Baptist · 1 ep
Le 7e Round
TV · as Arthur Kennedy · 11 eps
Psych
TV · as Long Hair · 1 ep
Kamataki
Movie · as Scott
The Outlander
Movie · as Mike l'Irlandais
Masters of Horror
TV · as Rufus Griswold · 1 ep
Into the West
TV · as James “Jim” Ebbets · 1 ep
Supernatural
TV · as Alastair · 3 eps
Catwoman
Movie · as Rocker
The Last Tunnel
Movie · as Smiley
Blade: Trinity
Movie · as Caulder
The Chronicles of Riddick
Movie · as Helion Politico
Stargate Atlantis
TV · as Todd the Wraith, Halling · 8 eps
The Collector
TV · as Jan van der Heyden · 1 ep
Life As We Know It
TV · as Mr. Mitchell · 1 ep
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
TV · as Reverend Jimmy Criss · 3 eps
Smallville: Chloe Chronicles
TV · as Dr. Arthur Walsh · 1 ep
The Tumultuous Adventures of Jack Carter
TV · as Lennie · 2 eps
India: Kingdom of the Tiger
Movie · as Jim Corbett
Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher
Movie · as Dr. Jacob Mortas
Aftermath
Movie · as Evan Harper
The Dead Zone
TV · as Zed · 1 ep
Just Cause
TV · as Dr. Tolkien · 1 ep
Jeremiah
TV · as Paul Wiel · 1 ep
John Doe
TV · as Dr. Hillerman · 2 eps
Napoleon
TV · as Geoffroy St-Hilaire · 4 eps
Varian's War
Movie · as Marius Franken
Nowhere in Sight
Movie · as Lewis Gills
Pig's Law
Movie · as Jodorowsky (Junkie)
The Killing Yard
Movie · as D.A.
Smallville
TV · as Zor-El · 2 eps
Believe
Movie · as Thad Stiles
The Witness
Movie · as Bobby Fish
Press Run
Movie · as Mickey Collins
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV · as Marc Ratelle · 1 ep
Andromeda
TV · as Gaiton · 1 ep
Nuremberg
TV · as Ernst Kaltenbrunner · 1 ep
Babel
Movie · as Preficator (as Chris Heyerdahl)
Requiem for Murder
Movie · as Detective Lou Heinz
2 Brothers
TV · as Bobby Vieira · 13 eps
Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft
Movie · as H.P. Lovecraft
Affliction
Movie · as Frankie Lacoy
The Ghosts of Dickens' Past
Movie · as Charles Dickens
Coyote Run
Movie · as Judd Lush
The Education of Little Tree
Movie · as Pine Billy
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Movie · as Fellow Gambler #2
Twists of Terror
Movie · as Darien
Habitat
Movie · as Eric Thornton
Bleeders
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Peacekeeper
Movie · as Hettinger
La Femme Nikita
TV · as Colin Starnes · 1 ep
Lassie
TV · as Alfred Kraus · 1 ep
The Hunger
TV · as Arthur · 1 ep
Stargate SG-1
TV · as Pallan · 1 ep
Rowing Through
Movie · as Paul Enquist
Silent Trigger
Movie · as O'Hara
The Maharaja's Daughter
TV · as Walt (as Chris Heyerdahl) · 3 eps
Warriors
Movie · as Milo
Obstruction of Justice
Movie · as Thief #2
Highlander III: The Sorcerer
Movie · as Ponytail
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
TV · as Nosferatu, Leonid · 1 ep
21 Jump Street
TV · as Jake · 1 ep