Christopher Heyerdahl

Christopher Heyerdahl is a Canadian actor who has had roles in many prominent television shows and movies. He is 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) tall.

Early life and family

Heyerdahl was born in the mountains of British Columbia and is of Norwegian and Scottish descent.^[1] Thor Heyerdahl was his father's cousin.^[2]

Career

Heyerdahl is 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 movie Out of Mind (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.^[3]

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.

In 2011, he played the role of The Swede in the AMC television series Hell on Wheels.

Filmography

References

External links

• Christopher Heyerdahl at the Internet Movie Database