Christopher Heyerdahl
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 fathers 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 AMCs Hell on Wheels This postAmerican 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 SG1 episode RevisionsHe 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 ZorEl 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 shows 5th season His most notable film role was in the feature film New Moon an adaptation of Stephenie Meyers 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 twopart 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
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