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 Marius de Romanus(3 eps)
as Charlie(6 eps)
as Jack
as Fredrik P Jensen
as Stepfather
as Shimon
as Puckett(5 eps)
as Police Chief Bagan
as Andrew
as Dr. Schoenheist - Scientist #1(1 ep)
as Roy Walker
as Dr. Reynolds(3 eps)
as Ammon Lafferty(2 eps)
as McDaniels(1 ep)
as Captain Caspar Locke(4 eps)
as Jakub(5 eps)
as The Black Hat Man(7 eps)
as Ova Asblorn
as Old Man(2 eps)
as Oscar Wallace(1 ep)
as George Maynard
as Jim
as Chief Mattsson
as Master Zane(2 eps)
as Edmund(1 ep)
as Headmaster Deats
as Sergeant Braun
as Don Berryman(10 eps)
as Wen(1 ep)
as Louis Gagnon(10 eps)
as Hightower(1 ep)
as Augustus Nickel(6 eps)
as Andrew Graham(1 ep)
as Sam(27 eps)
as David Arthur Faraday(1 ep)
as Dennis
as Ezekiel
as Arvid(1 ep)
as Ivan Mislav(1 ep)
as Dr. Lionel Gray(3 eps)
as Olaf(2 eps)
as Pepper
as The Keeper(1 ep)
as Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin(1 ep)
as Shaman Derek(1 ep)
as Jack Gruber(2 eps)
as President Korsovich(1 ep)
as Simon
as Martin Arisson(1 ep)
as Anders
as Dr. Nicholas Markus(1 ep)
as Damian Darhk's Assistant(1 ep)
as Lustig Balder(1 ep)
as The Swede(57 eps)
as Duane Pickett(1 ep)
as Collector
as Alby (voice)
as Collector(1 ep)
as Matthew Collins(1 ep)
as Kevin Reikle(3 eps)
as Kevin Riekel(1 ep)
as Connor Dunham(1 ep)
as Grenier(3 eps)
as Marcus
as Halling/ Todd
as Jacque Henri(1 ep)
as Paolo
as John Druitt / Bigfoot(59 eps)
as Dieter Braun(6 eps)
as Jebediah Friessen(1 ep)
as Alcidez Barling(10 eps)
as Dr. Woland
as Rufus Griswold
as Stanley Schiff(2 eps)
as Arthur Kennedy(11 eps)
as Long Hair(1 ep)
as Justin Talbert(1 ep)
as John the Baptist(1 ep)
as Rufus Griswold(1 ep)
as Scott
as Alastair(3 eps)
as James “Jim” Ebbets(1 ep)
as Mike l'Irlandais
as Caulder
as Mr. Mitchell(1 ep)
as Rocker
as Todd the Wraith(8 eps)
as Halling(6 eps)
as Todd(8 eps)
as Helion Politico
as Jan van der Heyden(1 ep)
as Smiley
as Reverend Jimmy Criss(3 eps)
as Lennie(2 eps)
as Dr. Arthur Walsh(1 ep)
as Geoffroy St-Hilaire(4 eps)
as Dr. Hillerman(2 eps)
as Dr. Tolkien(1 ep)
as Zed(1 ep)
as Jim Corbett
as Paul Wiel(1 ep)
as Dr. Jacob Mortas
as Evan Harper
as Zor-El(2 eps)
as Jodorowsky (Junkie)
as D.A.
as Marius Franken
as Lewis Gills
as Marc Ratelle(1 ep)
as Gaiton(1 ep)
as Ernst Kaltenbrunner(1 ep)
as Thad Stiles
as Bobby Fish
as Mickey Collins
as Bobby Vieira(13 eps)
as Detective Lou Heinz
as Preficator (as Chris Heyerdahl)
as Charles Dickens
as Frankie Lacoy
as H.P. Lovecraft
as Pine Billy
as Hettinger
as Narrator (voice)
as Pallan(1 ep)
as Arthur(1 ep)
as Darien
as Fellow Gambler #2
as Judd Lush
as Eric Thornton
as Alfred Kraus(1 ep)
as Colin Starnes(1 ep)
as O'Hara
as Paul Enquist
as Walt (as Chris Heyerdahl)(3 eps)
as Thief #2
as Ponytail
as Milo
as Nosferatu(1 ep)
as Leonid(1 ep)
as Jake(1 ep)