Chelah Horsdal
Chelah Horsdal is a Canadian actress. She is known for her regular roles in the television series Hell on Wheels, When Calls the Heart, and The Man in the High Castle, recurring roles on Stargate SG-1, Level Up, Arrow, and Star Trek: Discovery, and for her roles in the films Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Horsdal was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She says she "was born to hippie parents while surrounded by friends and family on the 'farm' Headacres."
She is the daughter of mother Lindsay and folksinger father Valdy. She grew up with her mother in Kitsilano and attended Bayview Elementary followed by Lord Byng Secondary. She began modelling in locally shot TV shows and commercials at 18, and then lived in the Caribbean for a year.
Horsdal began her acting career in 2002. She has since appeared in more than 75 commercials as well as in films and on television. She has played lead and supporting roles on Hell on Wheels, The Man In the High Castle, When Calls the Heart, Candiland, Patterson's Wager, Three Weeks, Three Kids, On Strike For Christmas, Marley & Me: The Puppy Years, and Lifetime's The Client List. She had lead roles in Lying To Be Perfect and Mrs. Miracle.
Additional credits include leads on the feature Burning Mussolini, Nickelodeon's Gym Teacher: The Movie, co-starring Christopher Meloni and Amy Sedaris, Flirting with Forty with Heather Locklear and the FOX TV pilot The Virgin of Akron, Ohio. Supporting leads include Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem for 20th Century Fox and Possession alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar, as well as Elegy with Ben Kingsley and Penélope Cruz and Rise of the Planet of the Apes with John Lithgow and James Franco.
Her performances in the short films Dark Room (2006) and The Hostage (2010) both earned Leo nominations for Best Performance. Recurring roles include Battlestar Galactica, Exes & Ohs, The L Word, Stargate: SG1, Saved, DaVinci's Inquest, Whistler, Blackstone, Clue and Cartoon Network's Level Up.
The Hostage, for which Horsdal was nominated for Best Actress at the 2011 Leos, co-starred and was produced by Tahmoh Penikett and Aleks Paunovic. Horsdal was nominated for four more Leo Awards for her guest starring turn on Arctic Air (2013), for Hell on Wheels and When Calls the Heart, and for Patterson's Wager.
Fotos
Películas (61)
Prom Pact
2023 · Mrs. Lansing
Spontaneous
2020 · Denise
Noelle
2019 · Shelley Sussman
Ash
2019 · Gail Hurst
Last Stand to Nowhere
2019 · Wylona Earp
Boundaries
2018 · Therapist
The Show
2017 · Elliot's Mom
Pretty Little Addict
2016 · Donna Phillips
Candiland
2016 · Tess/The Queen
Even Lambs Have Teeth
2015 · Abby
Patterson's Wager
2015 · Audrey
Gord's Brother
2015 · Amanda
When Calls the Heart: The Dance
2014 · Cat Montgomery
When Calls the Heart: A Telling Silence
2014 · Cat Montgomery
If I Stay
2014 · Liddy
Sole Custody
2014 · Anne
Clue: A Movie Mystery Adventure
2014 · Headmistress Kroger
The Grim Sleeper
2014 · Livi Vazquez
Hunting Season
2013 · Nancy
Midnight Stallion
2013 · Rita Shephard
Kill for Me
2013 · Maria Klein
It's Christmas, Carol!
2012 · Tanya
The Cabin in the Woods
2012 · Demo Girl
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011 · Irena - Charles' Nurse
Marley & Me: The Puppy Years
2011 · Carol Grogan
Three Weeks, Three Kids
2011 · Mandy Norton
The Haunting Hour: Afraid of Clowns
2011 · Chris' Mom
Altitude
2010 · Mrs. Taylor
The Client List
2010 · Doreen
The Tortured
2010 · Liane Strader
Lying to Be Perfect
2010 · Nancy
Betwixt
2010 · Vanessa
Mrs. Miracle
2009 · Kate Preston
Helen
2009 · Kara
Possession
2009 · Miranda
Come Dance at My Wedding
2009 · Nancy Reed
Alien Trespass
2009 · Betsy's Mother
Burning Mussolini
2009 · Cheryll Witherspoon
Flirting with Forty
2008 · Anne
Passengers
2008 · Janice
Gym Teacher: The Movie
2008 · Winnie
Elegy
2008 · Susan Reese
Every Second Counts
2008 · Mrs. Alcott
Vice
2008 · Woman in Elevator
Past Lies
2008 · Danielle
Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
2007 · Darcy
Perfect Child
2007 · Jen
Crossroads - A Story of Forgiveness
2007 · Cindy
Ashes Fall
2007 · Joanna
A Decent Proposal
2007 · Cynthia Lewis
Fallen
2006 · Lori Corbett
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006 · Minivan Mother
Hollow Man II
2006 · Blind Secretary
The Pink Panther
2006 · Security Guard
Dreams in the Witch House
2005 · Frances Elwood
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2005 · Asst. DA #3
Pursued
2004 · Sharon
Paycheck
2003 · Young Mother
The Ambassador
· Mrs. Spencer
Never Use Alone
· Ramona
Sundowning
Series (41)
Off Campus
2026 · Carrie Wells
Sheriff Country
2025 · Judge Merry MacRae
Firefly Lane
2021 · Margie
The Good Doctor
2017 · Tessa
Star Trek: Discovery
2017 · UFP President Laira Rillak
UnREAL
2015 · Louise
The Returned
2015 · Kris
The Man in the High Castle
2015 · Helen Smith
Los 100
2014 · Simone Lightbourne
When Calls the Heart
2014 · Cat Montgomery
Motive
2013 · Deana Mitchell
Emily Owens, M.D.
2012 · Marian Kramden
Arrow
2012 · Kate Spencer
Level Up
2012 · Barbara
Hell on Wheels
2011 · Margaret Palmer
Fairly Legal
2011 · Brooke Keller
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
2010 · Chris' Mom
Life Unexpected
2010 · Prosecutor
The Guard
2008
Exes & Ohs
2007 · Lauren Brooks
Bionic Woman
2007 · Suicidal Woman
Men in Trees
2006 · Pretty Redhead
Eureka
2006 · Mary-Beth Curtis
Psych
2006 · Beth
Whistler
2006
The Evidence
2006
Masters of Horror
2005 · Frances Elwood
Mentes Criminales
2005 · Heather Woodland
Supernatural
2005 · Cute Librarian, Bobby's Mother
Reunion
2005
Robson Arms
2005
Battlestar Galactica
2004 · Didi Cassidy
Stargate Atlantis
2004 · Erran
The 4400
2004 · Jeanine
Tru Calling
2003 · Admissions Officer
The Dead Zone
2002 · Janet Miller
Smallville
2001 · Dr. McCann
Andromeda
2000 · Misabo Ahm
Stargate SG-1
1997 · Lt. Catherine Womack, Lt. Womack
The Hat Squad
1992 · Young Woman
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Cindy