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.

Known For

The Twilight Saga: New Moon Not in library

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

2009

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 Not in library

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

2012

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 Not in library

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

2011

Supernatural Not in library

Supernatural

2005

The Last of Us Not in library

The Last of Us

2023

Arrow Not in library

Arrow

2012

The Chronicles of Riddick Not in library

The Chronicles of Riddick

2004

Smallville Not in library

Smallville

2001

Blade: Trinity Not in library

Blade: Trinity

2004

Scorpion Not in library

Scorpion

2014

Acting

2026 The Borderline as Charlie (6 episodes) In Library
2025 Queen of Bones as Fredrik P Jensen
2025 The Train
2025 Catharsis as Stepfather
2024 The Fast Runner as Shimon
2023 The Boy in the Woods as Police Chief Bagan
2023 Corner Office as Andrew
2023 Monarch: Legacy of Monsters as Puckett (5 episodes)
2023 The Last of Us as Dr. Schoenheist - Scientist #1 (1 episode)
2022 Viking as Roy Walker
2022 Under the Banner of Heaven as Ammon Lafferty (2 episodes)
2022 Peacemaker as Captain Caspar Locke (4 episodes)
2022 Dark Winds as Dr. Reynolds (3 episodes)
2022 Billy the Kid as McDaniels (1 episode)
2021 Chapelwaite as Jakub (5 episodes)
2021 Them as The Black Hat Man (7 episodes)
2020 Psych 2: Lassie Come Home as Ova Asblorn
2020 50 States of Fright as Old Man (2 episodes)
2020 Messiah as Oscar Wallace (1 episode)
2019 Stockholm as Chief Mattsson
2019 Adopt a Highway as Jim
2019 Togo as George Maynard
2019 Project Blue Book as Edmund (1 episode)
2019 The InBetween
2019 Deadly Class as Master Zane (2 episodes)
2018 Sicario: Day of the Soldado as Headmaster Deats
2017 Pure as Augustus Nickel (6 episodes)
2017 Tin Star as Louis Gagnon (10 episodes)
2017 Damnation as Don Berryman (10 episodes)
2017 Midnight, Texas as Hightower (1 episode)
2017 Star Trek: Discovery as Wen (1 episode)
2016 Honeyglue as Dennis
2016 Pee-wee's Big Holiday as Ezekiel
2016 Van Helsing as Sam (27 episodes)
2016 Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life as Arvid (1 episode)
2016 MacGyver as David Arthur Faraday (1 episode)
2016 Travelers as Andrew Graham (1 episode)
2015 Eadweard as Pepper
2015 Minority Report as Dr. Lionel Gray (3 episodes)
2015 The Player as Ivan Mislav (1 episode)
2015 Dig as Olaf (2 episodes)
2015 12 Monkeys as The Keeper (1 episode)
2014 Three Days in Havana as Anders
2014 The Calling as Simon
2014 Gotham as Jack Gruber (2 episodes)
2014 Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce as Shaman Derek (1 episode)
2014 Rush as Martin Arisson (1 episode)
2014 Scorpion as President Korsovich (1 episode)
2014 The Librarians as Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (1 episode)
2012 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 as Marcus
2012 Arrow as Damian Darhk's Assistant (1 episode)
2012 Bullet in the Face as Lustig Balder (1 episode)
2012 Beauty and the Beast as Dr. Nicholas Markus (1 episode)
2012 Vegas as Cal Sprouse (1 episode)
2011 Let Your Fingers Do the Talking as Alby (voice)
2011 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 as Marcus
2011 Hell on Wheels as The Swede (57 episodes)
2011 Falling Skies as Duane Pickett (1 episode)
2010 Nikita as Matthew Collins (1 episode)
2010 Mirador as Grenier (3 episodes)
2010 Human Target as Connor Dunham (1 episode)
2010 R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour as Collector (1 episode)
2010 Caprica as Kevin Reikle (3 episodes)
2010 Caprica as Kevin Riekel (1 episode)
2009 Cadavres as Paolo
2009 The Twilight Saga: New Moon as Marcus
2009 Stargate Atlantis: Fans' Choice as Halling/ Todd
2009 Castle as Jacque Henri (1 episode)
2008 Sanctuary as John Druitt / Bigfoot (59 episodes)
2008 True Blood as Dieter Braun (6 episodes)
2008 Murdoch Mysteries as Jebediah Friessen (1 episode)
2007 The Invisible as Dr. Woland
2007 The Black Cat as Rufus Griswold
2007 Les Sœurs Elliot as Alcidez Barling (10 episodes)
2007 Killer Wave as Stanley Schiff (2 episodes)
2006 Whistler as Justin Talbert (1 episode)
2006 Saved as John the Baptist (1 episode)
2006 Le 7e Round as Arthur Kennedy (11 episodes)
2006 Psych as Long Hair (1 episode)
2005 Kamataki as Scott
2005 The Outlander as Mike l'Irlandais
2005 Masters of Horror as Rufus Griswold (1 episode)
2005 Into the West as James “Jim” Ebbets (1 episode)
2005 Supernatural as Alastair (3 episodes)
2004 Catwoman as Rocker
2004 The Last Tunnel as Smiley
2004 Blade: Trinity as Caulder
2004 The Chronicles of Riddick as Helion Politico
2004 Stargate Atlantis as Todd the Wraith (8 episodes)
2004 Stargate Atlantis as Halling (6 episodes)
2004 The Collector as Jan van der Heyden (1 episode)
2004 Life As We Know It as Mr. Mitchell (1 episode)
2004 Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital as Reverend Jimmy Criss (3 episodes)
2004 Stargate Atlantis as Todd (8 episodes)
2003 Smallville: Chloe Chronicles as Dr. Arthur Walsh (1 episode)
2003 The Tumultuous Adventures of Jack Carter as Lennie (2 episodes)
2002 India: Kingdom of the Tiger as Jim Corbett
2002 Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher as Dr. Jacob Mortas
2002 Aftermath as Evan Harper
2002 The Dead Zone as Zed (1 episode)
2002 Just Cause as Dr. Tolkien (1 episode)
2002 John Doe as Dr. Hillerman (2 episodes)
2002 Jeremiah as Paul Wiel (1 episode)
2002 Napoleon as Geoffroy St-Hilaire (4 episodes)
2001 Varian's War as Marius Franken
2001 Nowhere in Sight as Lewis Gills
2001 Pig's Law as Jodorowsky (Junkie)
2001 The Killing Yard as D.A.
2001 Smallville as Zor-El (2 episodes)
2000 Believe as Thad Stiles
2000 The Witness as Bobby Fish
2000 Press Run as Mickey Collins
2000 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Marc Ratelle (1 episode)
2000 Andromeda as Gaiton (1 episode)
2000 Nuremberg as Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1 episode)
1999 Babel as Preficator (as Chris Heyerdahl)
1999 Requiem for Murder as Detective Lou Heinz
1999 2 Brothers as Bobby Vieira (13 episodes)
1998 Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft as H.P. Lovecraft
1998 Affliction as Frankie Lacoy
1998 The Ghosts of Dickens' Past as Charles Dickens
1997 Coyote Run as Judd Lush
1997 The Education of Little Tree as Pine Billy
1997 The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon as Fellow Gambler #2
1997 Twists of Terror as Darien
1997 Habitat as Eric Thornton
1997 Bleeders as Narrator (voice)
1997 The Peacekeeper as Hettinger
1997 La Femme Nikita as Colin Starnes (1 episode)
1997 Lassie as Alfred Kraus (1 episode)
1997 The Hunger as Arthur (1 episode)
1997 Stargate SG-1 as Pallan (1 episode)
1996 Rowing Through as Paul Enquist
1996 Silent Trigger as O'Hara
1995 The Maharaja's Daughter as Walt (as Chris Heyerdahl) (3 episodes)
1994 Warriors as Milo
1994 Obstruction of Justice as Thief #2
1994 Highlander III: The Sorcerer as Ponytail
1992 Are You Afraid of the Dark? as Leonid (1 episode)
1992 Are You Afraid of the Dark? as Nosferatu (as Chris Heyerdahl) (1 episode)
1987 21 Jump Street as Jake (1 episode)
The Guardian Angel as Sergeant Braun