Christopher Heyerdahl
Acting
Born 1963-09-18
British Columbia, Canada
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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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Supernatural
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Smallville
Castle
Stargate SG-1
Arrow
Psych
The Last of Us
Peacemaker
Star Trek: Discovery
Gotham
Dark Winds
True Blood
Stargate Atlantis
Murdoch Mysteries
Scorpion
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
21 Jump Street
MacGyver
Travelers
The Librarians
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Falling Skies
12 Monkeys
Van Helsing
Andromeda
The Dead Zone
The Vampire Lestat
Blade: Trinity
Nikita
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Hell on Wheels
Sanctuary
Beauty and the Beast
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
Masters of Horror
Caprica
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Human Target
Billy the Kid
La Femme Nikita
The Hunger
Them
Project Blue Book
Catwoman
Midnight, Texas
Tin Star
Messiah
Under the Banner of Heaven
Into the West
The Collector
Deadly Class
50 States of Fright
John Doe
Minority Report
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce
Napoleon
Chapelwaite
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