Christopher Heyerdahl

An award-winning Canadian actor, Christopher Heyerdahl co-stars in one of Amazon's number one series of 2021 Little Marvin's anthology series, Them, Chapelwaite for Epix, James Gunn's The Peacemaker, WGNA's Pure, USA's Damnation, Sky Atlantic's Tin Star, SyFy's Van Helsing, and AMC's hit series Hell On Wheels, playing the enigmatic Swede. This post-Civil War drama debuted as the second-highest-rated original series in AMC history. He started 2021 shooting the feature Corner Office with director Joachim Back and has appeared in the feature films Sicario: Day of The Soldado, Adopt a Highway, and co-starring in Robert Budreau's Stockholm.

Born in British Columbia, Heyerdahl is known internationally for his powerful performances in film, theatre, and television. His previous credits include roles as H.P. Lovecraft in the Gemini award-winning Out Of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft. Fluent in French, he also starred in Québecois films Le Dernier Tunnel, Cadavres, and La Loi Du Cochon. All directed by Érik Canuel and many recurring roles in French language television.

Heyerdahl has an impressive list of television credits including recent guest-starring roles on 50 States of Fright; Star Trek: Discovery; Messiah; Deadly Class; Midnight, Texas; Minority Report; Vegas; Castle; CSI; and Falling Skies, as well as recurring guest roles on Supernatural, Caprica, Smallville, Human Target, Stargate Atlantis, and the award-winning children's series Are You Afraid of the Dark? In addition to Steven Spielberg's Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning mini-series Into The West for Dreamworks TNT.

In 2017, Heyerdahl was nominated for a both Canadian Screen Award and Leo Award for his portrayal of Sam on SYFY's Van Helsing. In 2015, he won a Leo Award for Best performance by a male (supporting) in a motion picture for Eadweard, and Best Performance in a Children's Program for R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour - Fear Never Knocks. In 2012. Additionally, in 2010 and 2006, Heyerdahl won Leo Awards for Best Supporting Performance by a Male in a Dramatic Series for Sanctuary and Best Guest Performance by a Male in a Dramatic Series, respectively, for his performance as Jan Van Der Heyden in The Collector.

In 2009, Heyerdahl was nominated for Best Supporting Performance by a Male in a Dramatic Series for Sanctuary- Revelations Part 2, and a Gemini Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role in a Dramatic Series, also for Sanctuary.

On stage, Heyerdahl has a long list of theatre credits including "Love's Labour's Lost", "The Changeling", and "Knight of the Burning Pestle" at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, "The Glace Bay Miners' Museum", "The Last Comedy", and "Savage Love", to name a few.

Most recently, Heyerdahl shot a leading role alongside Susan Sarandon, Donald Sutherland, and Ellen Burstyn in the indie crime-drama The Calling, Gil Bellows in 3 Days in Havana, and Michael Eklund in Eadwaerd. Heyerdahl is internationally known for his dual roles of John Druitt and Bigfoot in SyFy's hit series Sanctuary, and the mega-hit Twilight franchise as the "sensitive" Volturi leader Marcus.