Christopher Heyerdahl

Acting

Born September 18, 1963, British Columbia, Canada

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

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