Christopher Heyerdahl
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Movies
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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.
As Actor/Actress
Supernatural
Alastair
CSI: Las Vegas
Marc Ratelle
Smallville
Zor-El
Stargate SG-1
Pallan
Arrow
Damian Darhk's Assistant
Castle
Jacque Henri
Psych
Long Hair
The Vampire Lestat
Marius de Romanus
Gotham
Jack Gruber
Star Trek: Discovery
Wen
The Last of Us
Dr. Schoenheist - Scientist #1
Stargate Atlantis
Todd the Wraith
Monarch: Legado de monstruos
Puckett
True Blood
Dieter Braun
Murdoch Mysteries
Jebediah Friessen
Scorpion
President Korsovich
MacGyver
David Arthur Faraday
Peacemaker
Captain Caspar Locke
21 Jump Street
Jake
Hell on Wheels
The Swede
Andromeda
Gaiton
Falling Skies
Duane Pickett
Nikita
Matthew Collins
The Haunting Hour: La Serie
Collector
Crepúsculo: Amanecer - Parte 1
Marcus
The Librarians
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
Van Helsing
Sam
La zona muerta
Zed
Viajeros
Andrew Graham
12 Monos
The Keeper