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
2026
- The Vampire Lestat as Marius de Romanus
- The Borderline as Charlie
2025
- Queen of Bones as Fredrik P Jensen
- Catharsis as Stepfather
- The Train as Jack
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
- Viking as Roy Walker
- Dark Winds as Dr. Reynolds
- Billy the Kid as McDaniels
- Under the Banner of Heaven as Ammon Lafferty
2021
- Them as The Black Hat Man
- Chapelwaite as Jakub
2020
- Messiah as Oscar Wallace
- 50 States of Fright as Old Man
- Psych 2: Lassie Come Home as Ova Asblorn
2019
- Deadly Class as Master Zane
- Project Blue Book as Edmund
- Togo as George Maynard
- The InBetween
- Adopt a Highway as Jim
- Stockholm as Chief Mattsson
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
- Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life as Arvid
- Pee-wee's Big Holiday as Ezekiel
- Honeyglue as Dennis
2015
- 12 Monkeys as The Keeper
- Minority Report as Dr. Lionel Gray
- Dig as Olaf
- The Player as Ivan Mislav
- Eadweard as Pepper
2014
- Scorpion as President Korsovich
- Gotham as Jack Gruber
- The Librarians as Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
- Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce as Shaman Derek
- Rush as Martin Arisson
- The Calling as Simon
- Three Days in Havana as Anders
2012
- Arrow as Damian Darhk's Assistant
- Beauty and the Beast as Dr. Nicholas Markus
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as Marcus
- Bullet in the Face as Lustig Balder
2011
- Falling Skies as Duane Pickett
- Hell on Wheels as The Swede
- 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
- Human Target as Connor Dunham
- Caprica as Kevin Reikle
- 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
- True Blood as Dieter Braun
- Murdoch Mysteries as Jebediah Friessen
- Sanctuary as John Druitt / Bigfoot
2007
- Killer Wave as Stanley Schiff
- The Invisible as Dr. Woland
- Les Sœurs Elliot as Alcidez Barling
- The Black Cat as Rufus Griswold
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
- Kamataki as Scott
- The Outlander as Mike l'Irlandais
2004
- Stargate Atlantis as Todd the Wraith
- Blade: Trinity as Caulder
- The Collector as Jan van der Heyden
- The Chronicles of Riddick as Helion Politico
- Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital as Reverend Jimmy Criss
- Life As We Know It as Mr. Mitchell
- Catwoman as Rocker
- 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
- Napoleon as Geoffroy St-Hilaire
- John Doe as Dr. Hillerman
- Jeremiah as Paul Wiel
- Just Cause as Dr. Tolkien
- Aftermath as Evan Harper
- Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher as Dr. Jacob Mortas
- India: Kingdom of the Tiger as Jim Corbett
2001
- Smallville as Zor-El
- Varian's War as Marius Franken
- The Killing Yard as D.A.
- Nowhere in Sight as Lewis Gills
- Pig's Law as Jodorowsky (Junkie)
2000
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Marc Ratelle
- Andromeda as Gaiton
- Nuremberg as Ernst Kaltenbrunner
- Press Run as Mickey Collins
- Believe as Thad Stiles
- The Witness as Bobby Fish
1999
- 2 Brothers as Bobby Vieira
- Babel as Preficator (as Chris Heyerdahl)
- Requiem for Murder as Detective Lou Heinz
1998
- Affliction as Frankie Lacoy
- The Ghosts of Dickens' Past as Charles Dickens
- Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft as H.P. Lovecraft
1997
- Stargate SG-1 as Pallan
- La Femme Nikita as Colin Starnes
- The Hunger as Arthur
- Lassie as Alfred Kraus
- Bleeders as Narrator (voice)
- The Peacekeeper as Hettinger
- The Education of Little Tree as Pine Billy
- The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon as Fellow Gambler #2
- Habitat as Eric Thornton
- Twists of Terror as Darien
- Coyote Run as Judd Lush
1996
- Silent Trigger as O'Hara
- Rowing Through as Paul Enquist
1995
- The Maharaja's Daughter as Walt (as Chris Heyerdahl)
1994
- Highlander III: The Sorcerer as Ponytail
- Obstruction of Justice as Thief #2
- Warriors as Milo
1992
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? as Nosferatu (as Chris Heyerdahl)
1987
- 21 Jump Street as Jake