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 (139)
The Vampire Lestat
2026
The Borderline
2026
The Vampire Lestat
2026
Queen of Bones
2025
The Train
2025
Catharsis
2025
The Fast Runner
2024
The Boy in the Woods
2023
Corner Office
2023
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
2023
The Last of Us
2023
Viking
2022
Under the Banner of Heaven
2022
Peacemaker
2022
Dark Winds
2022
Billy the Kid
2022
Chapelwaite
2021
Them
2021
Psych 2: Lassie Come Home
2020
50 States of Fright
2020
Messiah
2020
Stockholm
2019
Adopt a Highway
2019
Togo
2019
Project Blue Book
2019
The InBetween
2019
Deadly Class
2019
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
Pure
2017
Tin Star
2017
Damnation
2017
Midnight, Texas
2017
Star Trek: Discovery
2017
Honeyglue
2016
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
2016
Van Helsing
2016
Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life
2016
MacGyver
2016
Travelers
2016
Eadweard
2015
Minority Report
2015
The Player
2015
Dig
2015
12 Monkeys
2015
Three Days in Havana
2014
The Calling
2014
Gotham
2014
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce
2014
Rush
2014
Scorpion
2014
The Librarians
2014
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
2012
Arrow
2012
Beauty and the Beast
2012
Bullet in the Face
2012
Let Your Fingers Do the Talking
2011
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
2011
Hell on Wheels
2011
Falling Skies
2011
Nikita
2010
Human Target
2010
Mirador
2010
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
2010
Caprica
2010
Cadavres
2009
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
2009
Stargate Atlantis: Fans' Choice
2009
Castle
2009
Sanctuary
2008
True Blood
2008
Murdoch Mysteries
2008
The Invisible
2007
The Black Cat
2007
Les SΕurs Elliot
2007
Killer Wave
2007
Whistler
2006
Saved
2006
Le 7e Round
2006
Psych
2006
Kamataki
2005
The Outlander
2005
Masters of Horror
2005
Into the West
2005
Supernatural
2005
Catwoman
2004
The Last Tunnel
2004
Blade: Trinity
2004
The Chronicles of Riddick
2004
Stargate Atlantis
2004
The Collector
2004
Life As We Know It
2004
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
2004
Smallville: Chloe Chronicles
2003
The Tumultuous Adventures of Jack Carter
2003
India: Kingdom of the Tiger
2002
Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher
2002
Aftermath
2002
The Dead Zone
2002
Just Cause
2002
Jeremiah
2002
John Doe
2002
Napoleon
2002
Varian's War
2001
Nowhere in Sight
2001
Pig's Law
2001
The Killing Yard
2001
Smallville
2001
Believe
2000
The Witness
2000
Press Run
2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Andromeda
2000
Nuremberg
2000
Babel
1999
Requiem for Murder
1999
2 Brothers
1999
Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft
1998
Affliction
1998
The Ghosts of Dickens' Past
1998
Coyote Run
1997
The Education of Little Tree
1997
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
Twists of Terror
1997
Habitat
1997
Bleeders
1997
The Peacekeeper
1997
La Femme Nikita
1997
Lassie
1997
The Hunger
1997
Stargate SG-1
1997
Rowing Through
1996
Silent Trigger
1996
The Maharaja's Daughter
1995
Warriors
1994
Obstruction of Justice
1994
Highlander III: The Sorcerer
1994
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
1992
21 Jump Street
1987
The Guardian Angel
English
EspaΓ±ol
Russian
