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.
138 acting credits
Acting · 138
Supernatural
2005
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Smallville
2001
Castle
2009
Stargate SG-1
1997
Arrow
2012
Psych
2006
Gotham
2014
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
2023
True Blood
2008
Stargate Atlantis
2004
Scorpion
2014
Murdoch Mysteries
2008
The Last of Us
2023
MacGyver
2016
Star Trek: Discovery
2017
21 Jump Street
1987
Hell on Wheels
2011
Andromeda
2000
Peacemaker
2022
The Dead Zone
2002
Falling Skies
2011
Nikita
2010
Masters of Horror
2005
Sanctuary
2008
Van Helsing
2016
12 Monkeys
2015
The Librarians
2014
Travelers
2016
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
2010
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
1992
Dark Winds
2022
La Femme Nikita
1997
Beauty and the Beast
2012
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
2011
Human Target
2010
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
2012
Caprica
2010
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
2009
The Hunger
1997
Billy the Kid
2022
John Doe
2002
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
Them
2021
Midnight, Texas
2017
Project Blue Book
2019
Under the Banner of Heaven
2022
Minority Report
2015
Jeremiah
2002
The Collector
2004
Tin Star
2017
50 States of Fright
2020
Deadly Class
2019
Blade: Trinity
2004
Into the West
2005
Vegas
2012
Messiah
2020
Whistler
2006
Chapelwaite
2021
The Player
2015
Togo
2019
Life As We Know It
2004
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce
2014
Nuremberg
2000
Catwoman
2004
The Borderline
2026
Napoleon
2002
Just Cause
2002
Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital
2004
Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life
2016
The Maharaja's Daughter
1995
Dig
2015
Lassie
1997
Rush
2014
Damnation
2017
The InBetween
2019
Pure
2017
The Chronicles of Riddick
2004
Highlander III: The Sorcerer
1994
Adopt a Highway
2019
The Invisible
2007
Saved
2006
Bullet in the Face
2012
Killer Wave
2007
Affliction
1998
Stockholm
2019
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
2016
Smallville: Chloe Chronicles
2003
Corner Office
2023
The Guardian Angel
—
Psych 2: Lassie Come Home
2020
The Calling
2014
2 Brothers
1999
Habitat
1997
The Boy in the Woods
2023
Mirador
2010
Bleeders
1997
Stargate Atlantis: Fans' Choice
2009
Le 7e Round
2006
Silent Trigger
1996
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
The Peacekeeper
1997
Les Sœurs Elliot
2007
Queen of Bones
2025
The Education of Little Tree
1997
Viking
2022
Aftermath
2002
Honeyglue
2016
Eadweard
2015
The Tumultuous Adventures of Jack Carter
2003
Requiem for Murder
1999
Varian's War
2001
Believe
2000
Twists of Terror
1997
Rowing Through
1996
The Train
2025
The Black Cat
2007
Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher
2002
The Witness
2000
Kamataki
2005
Cadavres
2009
Babel
1999
Warriors
1994
Nowhere in Sight
2001
The Killing Yard
2001
The Last Tunnel
2004
Three Days in Havana
2014
Pig's Law
2001
Obstruction of Justice
1994
The Outlander
2005
Coyote Run
1997
Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft
1998
Press Run
2000
The Fast Runner
2024
The Ghosts of Dickens' Past
1998
India: Kingdom of the Tiger
2002
Let Your Fingers Do the Talking
2011
Catharsis
2025