Christopher Heyerdahl

Christopher Heyerdahl Biography

Christopher Heyerdahl (born September 18, 1963) is a Canadian actor who has had roles in many television shows and movies.

Early life and family

Heyerdahl was born in the mountains of 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 fairly well and studied for some time at the University of Oslo.

Career

Heyerdahl is primarily known for his recurring role as "The Swede" in AMC's Hell on Wheels. 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 had a role 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 adaption of the fourth book in the Twilight Saga.

He played the part of Dieter Braun on True Blood during the show's 5th season, which aired summer 2012. Heyerdahl also plays the role of Thor Gundersen/"The Swede", in the AMC television series Hell on Wheels from 2011 through the present.

In 2015, Heyerdahl hosted the Leo Awards gala ceremony.

Filmography

Year	Film / Television	Role	Other notes
1987	21 Jump Street	Jake	1 episode
1993	Are You Afraid of the Dark?	Leonid	2 episodes
1994	Highlander III: The Sorcerer	Ponytail
	The Maharaja's Daughter	Walt	TV miniseries
	Warrior	Milo
1996	Coyote Run	Judd Lush	as Chris Heyerdahl
	Silent Trigger	O'Hara
	Rowing Through	Paul Enquist	TV
	Twists of Terror	Darien	TV
1997	The Education of Little Tree	Pine Billy
	The Hunger	Arthur	1 episode
	The Peacekeeper	Hettinger
	Affliction	Frankie Lacoy	as Chris Heyerdahl
	Bleeders	Narrator
	Habitat	Eric Thornton	as Chris Heyerdahl
	The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon	Fellow Gambler #2
1998	The Ghosts of Dickens' Past	Charles Dickens
	Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft	Howard P. Lovecraft	TV
	Lassie	Alfred Kraus	1 episode
1999	Babel	Preficator	as Chris Heyerdahl
	Requiem for Murder	Det. Lou Heinz
	Fish Out of Water	Bobby Fish
	2 frres	Bobby Vieira
2000	La Femme Nikita	Colin Starnes	1 episode
	The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne	D'Artagnan	2 episodes
	Nuremberg	Ernst Kaltenbrunner	TV
	Believe	Thad Stiles
	Press Run	Mickey Collins
	Nowhere in Sight	Lewis Gills
2001	La Loi du cochon	Jodorowsky (Junkie)
2001	Varian's War	Marius Franken	TV
2002	John Doe	Dr.Hillman	2 episodes, 2002-2003
	Just Cause	Dr. Tolkien	1 episode
	Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher	Dr. Jacob Mortas	TV
	Aftermath	Evan Harper
	India: Kingdom of the Tiger	Jim Corbett
	Napolon (miniseries)	tienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
2003	Jeremiah	Paul Wiel	1 episode
	Les Aventures tumultueuses de Jack Carter	Lennie	2 episodes
	Stargate SG-1	Pallan	1 episode
	Andromeda	Gaiton	1 episode
2004	Blade: Trinity	Caulder
	Life As We Know It	Mr. Mitchell	1 episode
	Catwoman	Rocker
	Kingdom Hospital	Reverend Jimmy Criss	3 episodes
	The Chronicles of Riddick	Helion Politico
	Le Dernier Tunnel	Smiley
2005	Kamataki	Scott
	Into the West	James 'Jim' Ebbets	1 episode
	Le Survenant	Mike l'Irlandais	aka The Outlander
2006	Le 7e round	Arthur Kennedy	TV mini-series
	Whistler	Justin Talbert	1 episode
	Psych	Long Hair	1 episode
	The Dead Zone	Zed	1 episode
	Saved	John the Baptist	1 episode
	The Collector	Jan van der Heyden	1 episode
2007	Smallville	Zor-El	2 episodes
	Les Surs Elliot	Alcidez Barling	1 episode
	The Invisible	Dr. Woland
	Masters of Horror	Rufus Griswold	1 episode
	Killer Wave	Stanley Schiff	TV mini-series
2008	Sanctuary	John Druitt and Bigfoot	10 episodes; 2007-2009
2008	Stargate: Atlantis	Todd and Halling	13 and 6 episodes respectively
2009	The Twilight Saga: New Moon	Marcus Volturi
	Sanctuary	John Druitt and Bigfoot
	Supernatural	Alastair	3 episodes
	Cadavres	Paolo
2010	Caprica	Kevin Reikle
2011-2015	Hell on Wheels	The Swede	39 episodes
2011	R. L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: The Series	Fear (but credited as "Collector"?)	1 episode
2011	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1	Marcus Volturi
2012	True Blood	Dieter Braun	Recurring
2012	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2	Marcus Volturi
2013	Vegas	Calvin	1 episode
	Falling Skies	Duane Pickett	1 episode
	Castle	Henri	1 episode
	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Marc Ratelle	1 episode
	Nikita	Matthew Collins	1 episode
	Three Days in Havana	Anders
2014	The Calling	Simon
	Beauty & the Beast	Dr. Nicholas Markus	1 episode
	Rush	Martin Arisson	1 episode
2015	Gotham	Jack Buchinsky/Electrocutioner	Recurring
	Dig	Olaf	Pilot episode
	Minority Report	Dr. Lionel Gray	Recurring
	Arrow	Damien Darhk's Assistant	1 episode
	Eadweard	Pepper	won Leo Award for Best Supporting Performance by a Male

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