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.
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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Filmography (Movies)
The Train
Character:
Release Date:18/10/2025
Queen of Bones
Character:Fredrik P Jensen
Release Date:01/08/2025
Catharsis
Character:Stepfather
Release Date:17/05/2025
The Fast Runner
Character:Shimon
Release Date:04/11/2024
The Boy in the Woods
Character:Police Chief Bagan
Release Date:19/09/2023
Corner Office
Character:Andrew
Release Date:04/08/2023
Viking
Character:Roy Walker
Release Date:25/09/2022
Psych 2: Lassie Come Home
Character:Ova Asblorn
Release Date:15/07/2020
Togo
Character:George Maynard
Release Date:20/12/2019
Adopt a Highway
Character:Jim
Release Date:01/11/2019
Stockholm
Character:Chief Mattsson
Release Date:12/04/2019
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Character:Headmaster Deats
Release Date:27/06/2018
Honeyglue
Character:Dennis
Release Date:03/06/2016
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
Character:Ezekiel
Release Date:15/03/2016
Eadweard
Character:Pepper
Release Date:28/02/2015
The Calling
Character:Simon
Release Date:05/08/2014
Three Days in Havana
Character:Anders
Release Date:28/03/2014
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
Character:Marcus
Release Date:13/11/2012
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
Character:Marcus
Release Date:16/11/2011
Let Your Fingers Do the Talking
Character:Alby (voice)
Release Date:01/01/2011
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Character:Marcus
Release Date:18/11/2009
Stargate Atlantis: Fans' Choice
Character:Halling/ Todd
Release Date:04/08/2009
Cadavres
Character:Paolo
Release Date:20/02/2009
The Invisible
Character:Dr. Woland
Release Date:27/04/2007
The Black Cat
Character:Rufus Griswold
Release Date:19/01/2007
Kamataki
Character:Scott
Release Date:01/10/2005
The Outlander
Character:Mike l'Irlandais
Release Date:22/04/2005
Blade: Trinity
Character:Caulder
Release Date:08/12/2004
Catwoman
Character:Rocker
Release Date:22/07/2004
The Chronicles of Riddick
Character:Helion Politico
Release Date:11/06/2004
The Last Tunnel
Character:Smiley
Release Date:12/03/2004
India: Kingdom of the Tiger
Character:Jim Corbett
Release Date:14/06/2002
Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher
Character:Dr. Jacob Mortas
Release Date:19/02/2002
Aftermath
Character:Evan Harper
Release Date:03/02/2002
Pig's Law
Character:Jodorowsky (Junkie)
Release Date:05/10/2001
The Killing Yard
Character:D.A.
Release Date:23/09/2001
Varian's War
Character:Marius Franken
Release Date:14/06/2001
Nowhere in Sight
Character:Lewis Gills
Release Date:01/01/2001
Believe
Character:Thad Stiles
Release Date:22/03/2000
The Witness
Character:Bobby Fish
Release Date:08/02/2000
Press Run
Character:Mickey Collins
Release Date:23/01/2000
Requiem for Murder
Character:Detective Lou Heinz
Release Date:03/04/1999
Babel
Character:Preficator (as Chris Heyerdahl)
Release Date:01/01/1999
The Ghosts of Dickens' Past
Character:Charles Dickens
Release Date:15/06/1998
Affliction
Character:Frankie Lacoy
Release Date:12/02/1998
Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft
Character:H.P. Lovecraft
Release Date:01/01/1998
The Education of Little Tree
Character:Pine Billy
Release Date:25/12/1997
The Peacekeeper
Character:Hettinger
Release Date:22/08/1997
Bleeders
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:31/07/1997
Twists of Terror
Character:Darien
Release Date:02/07/1997
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Character:Fellow Gambler #2
Release Date:22/06/1997
Coyote Run
Character:Judd Lush
Release Date:17/06/1997
Habitat
Character:Eric Thornton
Release Date:06/05/1997
Silent Trigger
Character:O'Hara
Release Date:26/06/1996
Rowing Through
Character:Paul Enquist
Release Date:01/01/1996
Obstruction of Justice
Character:Thief #2
Release Date:30/11/1994
Highlander III: The Sorcerer
Character:Ponytail
Release Date:29/11/1994
Warriors
Character:Milo
Release Date:21/09/1994
Television Appearances
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Character:Puckett
The Last of Us
Character:Dr. Schoenheist - Scientist #1
Dark Winds
Character:Dr. Reynolds
Under the Banner of Heaven
Character:Ammon Lafferty
Billy the Kid
Character:McDaniels
Peacemaker
Character:Captain Caspar Locke
Chapelwaite
Character:Jakub
Them
Character:The Black Hat Man
50 States of Fright
Character:Old Man
Messiah
Character:Oscar Wallace
The InBetween
Character:
Deadly Class
Character:Master Zane
Project Blue Book
Character:Edmund
Damnation
Character:Don Berryman
Star Trek: Discovery
Character:Wen
Tin Star
Character:Louis Gagnon
Midnight, Texas
Character:Hightower
Pure
Character:Augustus Nickel
Travelers
Character:Andrew Graham
Van Helsing
Character:Sam
MacGyver
Character:David Arthur Faraday
Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life
Character:Arvid
The Player
Character:Ivan Mislav
Minority Report
Character:Dr. Lionel Gray
Dig
Character:Olaf
12 Monkeys
Character:The Keeper
The Librarians
Character:Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce
Character:Shaman Derek
Gotham
Character:Jack Gruber
Scorpion
Character:President Korsovich
Rush
Character:Martin Arisson
Beauty and the Beast
Character:Dr. Nicholas Markus
Arrow
Character:Damian Darhk's Assistant
Vegas
Character:Cal Sprouse
Bullet in the Face
Character:Lustig Balder
Hell on Wheels
Character:The Swede
Falling Skies
Character:Duane Pickett
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
Character:Collector
Nikita
Character:Matthew Collins
Caprica
Character:Kevin Reikle
Caprica
Character:Kevin Riekel
Human Target
Character:Connor Dunham
Mirador
Character:Grenier
Castle
Character:Jacque Henri
Sanctuary
Character:John Druitt / Bigfoot
True Blood
Character:Dieter Braun
Murdoch Mysteries
Character:Jebediah Friessen
Les Sœurs Elliot
Character:Alcidez Barling
Killer Wave
Character:Stanley Schiff
Le 7e Round
Character:Arthur Kennedy
Psych
Character:Long Hair
Whistler
Character:Justin Talbert
Saved
Character:John the Baptist
Masters of Horror
Character:Rufus Griswold
Supernatural
Character:Alastair
Into the West
Character:James “Jim” Ebbets
Life As We Know It
Character:Mr. Mitchell
Stargate Atlantis
Character:Todd the Wraith
Stargate Atlantis
Character:Halling
Stargate Atlantis
Character:Todd
The Collector
Character:Jan van der Heyden
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
Character:Reverend Jimmy Criss
The Tumultuous Adventures of Jack Carter
Character:Lennie
Smallville: Chloe Chronicles
Character:Dr. Arthur Walsh
Napoleon
Character:Geoffroy St-Hilaire
John Doe
Character:Dr. Hillerman
Just Cause
Character:Dr. Tolkien
The Dead Zone
Character:Zed
Jeremiah
Character:Paul Wiel
Smallville
Character:Zor-El
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character:Marc Ratelle
Andromeda
Character:Gaiton
Nuremberg
Character:Ernst Kaltenbrunner
2 Brothers
Character:Bobby Vieira
Stargate SG-1
Character:Pallan
The Hunger
Character:Arthur
Lassie
Character:Alfred Kraus
La Femme Nikita
Character:Colin Starnes
The Maharaja's Daughter
Character:Walt (as Chris Heyerdahl)
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Character:Nosferatu (as Chris Heyerdahl)
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Character:Leonid
21 Jump Street
Character:Jake
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