Christopher Heyerdahl

Born: 1963-09-18 in British Columbia, Canada

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2025

Queen of Bones as Fredrik P Jensen
Catharsis as Stepfather
The Train
The Borderline

2024

The Fast Runner as Shimon

2023

The Last of Us as Dr. Schoenheist - Scientist #1
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters as Puckett
Corner Office as Andrew
The Boy in the Woods as Police Chief Bagan

2022

Peacemaker as Captain Caspar Locke
Billy the Kid as McDaniels
Dark Winds as Dr. Reynolds
Viking as Roy Walker
Under the Banner of Heaven as Ammon Lafferty

2021

Them as The Black Hat Man
Chapelwaite as Jakub

2020

50 States of Fright as Old Man
Messiah as Oscar Wallace
Psych 2: Lassie Come Home as Ova Asblorn

2019

Togo as George Maynard
Project Blue Book as Edmund
Deadly Class as Master Zane
Stockholm as Chief Mattsson
Adopt a Highway as Jim
The InBetween

2018

Sicario: Day of the Soldado as Headmaster Deats

2017

Star Trek: Discovery as Wen
Midnight, Texas as Hightower
Tin Star as Louis Gagnon
Damnation as Don Berryman
Pure as Augustus Nickel

2016

MacGyver as David Arthur Faraday
Van Helsing as Sam
Travelers as Andrew Graham
Honeyglue as Dennis
Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life as Arvid
Pee-wee's Big Holiday as Ezekiel

2015

12 Monkeys as The Keeper
Eadweard as Pepper
Minority Report as Dr. Lionel Gray
The Player as Ivan Mislav
Dig as Olaf

2014

Gotham as Jack Gruber
Scorpion as President Korsovich
The Librarians as Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
The Calling as Simon
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce as Shaman Derek
Rush as Martin Arisson
Three Days in Havana as Anders

2012

Arrow as Damian Darhk's Assistant
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as Marcus
Beauty and the Beast as Dr. Nicholas Markus
Vegas as Cal Sprouse
Bullet in the Face as Lustig Balder

2011

Hell on Wheels as The Swede
Falling Skies as Duane Pickett
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 as Marcus
Let Your Fingers Do the Talking as Alby (voice)

2010

Nikita as Matthew Collins
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour as Collector
Caprica as Kevin Reikle
Human Target as Connor Dunham
Mirador as Grenier

2009

Castle as Jacque Henri
The Twilight Saga: New Moon as Marcus
Cadavres as Paolo
Stargate Atlantis: Fans' Choice as Halling/ Todd

2008

Murdoch Mysteries as Jebediah Friessen
True Blood as Dieter Braun
Sanctuary as John Druitt / Bigfoot

2007

The Invisible as Dr. Woland
Killer Wave as Stanley Schiff
The Black Cat as Rufus Griswold
Les Sœurs Elliot as Alcidez Barling

2006

Psych as Long Hair
Whistler as Justin Talbert
Saved as John the Baptist
Le 7e Round as Arthur Kennedy

2005

Supernatural as Alastair
Masters of Horror as Rufus Griswold
Into the West as James “Jim” Ebbets
The Outlander as Mike l'Irlandais
Kamataki as Scott

2004

Stargate Atlantis as Todd the Wraith
Blade: Trinity as Caulder
The Collector as Jan van der Heyden
Catwoman as Rocker
The Chronicles of Riddick as Helion Politico
Life As We Know It as Mr. Mitchell
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital as Reverend Jimmy Criss
The Last Tunnel as Smiley

2003

Smallville: Chloe Chronicles as Dr. Arthur Walsh
The Tumultuous Adventures of Jack Carter as Lennie

2002

The Dead Zone as Zed
John Doe as Dr. Hillerman
Jeremiah as Paul Wiel
Napoleon as Geoffroy St-Hilaire
Aftermath as Evan Harper
India: Kingdom of the Tiger as Jim Corbett
Just Cause as Dr. Tolkien
Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher as Dr. Jacob Mortas

2001

Smallville as Zor-El
Pig's Law as Jodorowsky (Junkie)
The Killing Yard as D.A.
Varian's War as Marius Franken
Nowhere in Sight as Lewis Gills

2000

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Marc Ratelle
Andromeda as Gaiton
Believe as Thad Stiles
Nuremberg as Ernst Kaltenbrunner
The Witness as Bobby Fish
Press Run as Mickey Collins

1999

Babel as Preficator (as Chris Heyerdahl)
Requiem for Murder as Detective Lou Heinz
2 Brothers as Bobby Vieira

1998

Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft as H.P. Lovecraft
The Ghosts of Dickens' Past as Charles Dickens

1997

Stargate SG-1 as Pallan
La Femme Nikita as Colin Starnes
The Hunger as Arthur
Bleeders as Narrator (voice)
Habitat as Eric Thornton
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon as Fellow Gambler #2
Coyote Run as Judd Lush
The Education of Little Tree as Pine Billy
Affliction as Frankie Lacoy
The Peacekeeper as Hettinger
Lassie as Alfred Kraus
Twists of Terror as Darien

1996

Silent Trigger as O'Hara
Rowing Through as Paul Enquist

1995

The Maharaja's Daughter as Walt (as Chris Heyerdahl)