Christopher Heyerdahl
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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Films (59)
The Train
2025 · Jack
Queen of Bones
2025 · Fredrik P Jensen
Catharsis
2025 · Stepfather
The Fast Runner
2024 · Shimon
Una Historia de Supervivencia
2023 · Police Chief Bagan
Corner Office
2023 · Andrew
On dirait la planète Mars
2022 · Roy Walker
Psych 2 - Lassie rentre à la maison
2020 · Ova Asblorn
Togo
2019 · George Maynard
Una Pequeña Redención
2019 · Jim
Stockholm
2019 · Chief Mattsson
Sicario : La Guerre des cartels
2018 · Headmaster Deats
The Guardian Angel
2018 · Sergeant Braun
Honeyglue
2016 · Dennis
Las grandes vacaciones de Pee-Wee
2016 · Ezekiel
Eadweard
2015 · Pepper
The calling
2014 · Simon
Three Days in Havana
2014 · Anders
Twilight, chapitre 5 : Révélation, 2ème partie
2012 · Marcus
Twilight, chapitre 4 : Révélation, 1ère partie
2011 · Marcus
Let Your Fingers Do the Talking
2011 · Alby (voice)
Twilight, chapitre 2 : Tentation
2009 · Marcus
Stargate Atlantis: Fans' Choice
2009 · Halling/ Todd
Cadavres
2009 · Paolo
Invisible
2007 · Dr. Woland
Le Chat noir
2007 · Rufus Griswold
Kamataki
2005 · Scott
Le Survenant
2005 · Mike l'Irlandais
Blade : Trinity
2004 · Caulder
Catwoman
2004 · Rocker
Les Chroniques de Riddick
2004 · Helion Politico
The Last Tunnel
2004 · Smiley
India: Kingdom of the Tiger
2002 · Jim Corbett
Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher
2002 · Dr. Jacob Mortas
Aftermath
2002 · Evan Harper
Pig's Law
2001 · Jodorowsky (Junkie)
The Killing Yard
2001 · D.A.
Héros de l'ombre
2001 · Marius Franken
Nowhere in Sight
2001 · Lewis Gills
Believe
2000 · Thad Stiles
The Witness
2000 · Bobby Fish
Press Run
2000 · Mickey Collins
Requiem for Murder
1999 · Detective Lou Heinz
Babel
1999 · Preficator (as Chris Heyerdahl)
The Ghosts of Dickens' Past
1998 · Charles Dickens
Affliction
1998 · Frankie Lacoy
Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft
1998 · H.P. Lovecraft
The Education of Little Tree
1997 · Pine Billy
The Peacekeeper
1997 · Hettinger
Bleeders
1997 · Narrator (voice)
Twists of Terror
1997 · Darien
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997 · Fellow Gambler #2
Coyote Run
1997 · Judd Lush
Habitat
1997 · Eric Thornton
Silent Trigger
1996 · O'Hara
Rowing Through
1996 · Paul Enquist
Obstruction of Justice
1994 · Thief #2
Highlander III: The Sorcerer
1994 · Ponytail
Warriors
1994 · Milo
Séries (79)
The Vampire Lestat
2026 · Marius de Romanus
Frontière à risque
2026 · Charlie
Monarch : l’héritage des monstres
2023 · Puckett
The Last of Us
2023 · Dr. Schoenheist - Scientist #1
Dark Winds
2022 · Dr. Reynolds
Sur ordre de Dieu
2022 · Ammon Lafferty
Billy the Kid
2022 · McDaniels
Peacemaker
2022 · Captain Caspar Locke
Chapelwaite
2021 · Jakub
Eux
2021 · The Black Hat Man
50 Nuances de terreur
2020 · Old Man
Messie
2020 · Oscar Wallace
The InBetween
2019
Clase Mortal
2019 · Master Zane
Projet Blue Book
2019 · Edmund
Damnation
2017 · Don Berryman
Star Trek: Discovery
2017 · Wen
Tin Star
2017 · Louis Gagnon
Midnight, Texas
2017 · Hightower
Pure
2017 · Augustus Nickel
Les voyageurs du temps
2016 · Andrew Graham
Van Helsing
2016 · Sam
MacGyver
2016 · David Arthur Faraday
Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life
2016 · Arvid
Player
2015 · Ivan Mislav
Minority Report
2015 · Dr. Lionel Gray
Dig
2015 · Olaf
12 Monkeys
2015 · The Keeper
Flynn Carson et les Nouveaux Aventuriers
2014 · Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
Le guide de la parfaite divorcée
2014 · Shaman Derek
Gotham
2014 · Jack Gruber
Scorpion
2014 · President Korsovich
Rush
2014 · Martin Arisson
La belle et la bête
2012 · Dr. Nicholas Markus
Arrow
2012 · Damian Darhk's Assistant
Bullet in the Face
2012 · Lustig Balder
Hell on Wheels : L'enfer de l'Ouest
2011 · The Swede
Falling Skies
2011 · Duane Pickett
R. L. Stine L'Heure de la Peur
2010 · Collector
Nikita
2010 · Matthew Collins
Caprica
2010 · Kevin Reikle, Kevin Riekel
Human Target : La Cible
2010 · Connor Dunham
Mirador
2010 · Grenier
Castle
2009 · Jacque Henri
Sanctuary
2008 · John Druitt / Bigfoot
True Blood
2008 · Dieter Braun
Les Enquêtes de Murdoch
2008 · Jebediah Friessen
Les Sœurs Elliot
2007 · Alcidez Barling
Alerte Tsunamis
2007 · Stanley Schiff
Le 7e Round
2006 · Arthur Kennedy
Psych : Enquêteur malgré lui
2006 · Long Hair
Whistler
2006 · Justin Talbert
Saved
2006 · John the Baptist
Les maîtres de l'horreur
2005 · Rufus Griswold
Surnaturel
2005 · Alastair
Camino Hacia El Oeste
2005 · James “Jim” Ebbets
La Vie comme elle est
2004 · Mr. Mitchell
La Porte d'Atlantis
2004 · Todd the Wraith, Halling, Todd
Le Messager des ténèbres
2004 · Jan van der Heyden
Kingdom Hospital
2004 · Reverend Jimmy Criss
The Tumultuous Adventures of Jack Carter
2003 · Lennie
Smallville: Chloe Chronicles
2003 · Dr. Arthur Walsh
Napoleon
2002 · Geoffroy St-Hilaire
John Doe
2002 · Dr. Hillerman
Just Cause
2002 · Dr. Tolkien
Dead Zone
2002 · Zed
Jeremiah
2002 · Paul Wiel
Smallville
2001 · Zor-El
Les Experts
2000 · Marc Ratelle
Andromeda
2000 · Gaiton
Nuremberg
2000 · Ernst Kaltenbrunner
2 Brothers
1999 · Bobby Vieira
Stargate SG-1
1997 · Pallan
The Hunger
1997 · Arthur
Lassie
1997 · Alfred Kraus
La Femme Nikita
1997 · Colin Starnes
The Maharaja's Daughter
1995 · Walt (as Chris Heyerdahl)
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
1992 · Leonid, Nosferatu
21 Jump Street
1987 · Jake