Christopher Heyerdahl is half Norwegian and half Scottish. His father was a cousin to the late explorer and author Thor Heyerdahl. A gifted hockey player, he was once asked to play for the Ottawa Senators but decided to decline the offer. Mostly known for his sci-fi roles, Heyerdahl is also a stage actor and has played such roles as Gandalf in the Carousel Players production of The Hobbit, to appearances in Twelfth Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Love’s Labour Lost, and The Grand Inquisitor at the Stratford Festival, to name just a few credits from his stage career. He played the role of a vampire named Marcus who is part of a powerful Italian family called the Volturi in the film adaptations of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga series of films. In 2015, Heyerdahl hosted the Leo Awards gala ceremony.
Also see: Canadian Filmmakers at Whistler.
Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Highlander III: The Sorcerer (1994)
Twists of Terror (TV-1996)
Rowing Through (1996)
Silent Trigger (1996)
Coyote Run (1996)
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (TV-1997)
Habitat (1997)
Bleeders (1997)
Affliction (1997)
The Peacekeeper (1997)
The Education of Little Tree (1997)
Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (TV-1998)
The Ghosts of Dickens’ Past (1998)
Fish Out of Water (1999)
Requiem for Murder (1999)
Babel (1999)
Press Run (2000)
Believe (2000/I)
Nuremberg (TV-2000)
Varian’s War (TV-2001)
La loi du cochon (2001)
Nowhere in Sight (2001)
Aftermath (2002)
Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher (TV-2002)
Le dernier tunnel (2004)
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
Catwoman (2004)
Blade: Trinity (2004)
Le survenant (2005)
Kamataki (2005)
The Invisible (2007)
Cadavres (2009)
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
Stargate: Extinction (VR-2009)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)
Let Your Fingers Do the Talking (2012, short)
3 Days in Havana (2013)
The Calling (2014)
Eadweard (2015)
Pee-wee’s Big Holiday (2016)
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
Stockholm (2018)
Adopt a Highway (2019)
Togo (2019)
Psych 2: Lassie Come Home (TV-2020)
Coroner Office (2022)
Viking (2022)
Queen of Bones (2022)
The Boy in the Woods (2023)
TV Series – Cast
The Maharaja’s Daughter (1994, mini-series)
2 frères (1999)
Stargate: Atlantis (2004-2009)
Le 7e round (2006)
Killer Wave (2007, mini-series)
Sanctuary (2007-2011)
True Blood (2012)
Hell on Wheels (2011-2016)
Bullet in the Face (2012, mini-series)
Van Helsing (2016-2021)
Tin Star (2017)
Damnation (2017-2018)
Pure (2019, mini-series)
Chapelwaite (2021)
Them (2021)
Under the Banner of Heaven (2022, mini-series)
TV Series – Guest appearances:
21 Jump Street (1987)
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1993)
The Hunger (1997)
Lassie (1998)
The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000)
La Femme Nikita (2000)
Just Cause (2002)
John Doe (2002, 2003)
Andromeda (2003)
Stargate SG-1 (2003)
Les aventures tumultueuses de Jack Carter (2003)
Jeremiah (2003)
Kingdom Hospital (2004)
Into the West (2005)
The Collector (2006)
Saved (2006)
The Dead Zone (2006)
Psych (2006)
Whistler (2006)
Masters of Horror ( 2007)
Smallville (2007)
Supernatural (2009)
Mirador (2010)
Human Target (2010)
Caprica (2010)
R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour (2011)
True Blood (2012)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2013)
Castle (2013)
Nikita (2013)
Vegas (2013)
Falling Skies (2013)
Beauty and the Beast (2014)
Rush (2014)
Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce (2015)
Gotham (2015)
Dig (2015)
Arrow (2015)
The Player (2015)
Minority Report (2015)
12 Monkeys (2016)
Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life (2016)
MacGyver (2017)
Scorpion (2017)
Midnight, Texas (2017)
The Librarians (2017)
Travelers (2018)
The InBetween (2019)
Messiah (2020)
Project Blue Book (2020)
50 States of Fright (2020)
Star Trek: Discovery (2020)
Peacemaker (2022)
The Last of Us (2023)
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023, 2024)
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