Christopher Heyerdahl

Christopher Heyerdahl is an actor who has had roles in many prominent television shows and movies. He is 6' 4" (1.93 m) tall. Christopher was born in the mountains of British Columbia, making him a first generation Canadian. Heyerdahl is half Norwegian. The late Thor Heyerdahl was his father's cousin. He is also a gifted hockey player, and was once asked to play for the Ottawa Senators. 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.[1] He has a role in the film New Moon, an adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's second book in her Twilight Saga. In this film he plays a vampire, Marcus, who is part of a powerful Italian family called the Volturi. His character is described as apathetic and appears constantly bored by any situation.