Photo: Jeff Hitchcock from Vancouver, BC, Canada / CC BY 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)

Christopher Heyerdahl

クリストファー・ハイアーダール　/　くりすとふぁー・はいあーだーる

Actor from Canada

September 18, 1963 (age 62)　・　British Columbia, Canada

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film actor
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My Take

Christopher Heyerdahl is the kind of actor I notice before I know his name, which is its own compliment. Born in British Columbia in 1963 and standing a startling 201 centimeters, he's become genre television's go-to for unsettling presences: Alastair and the Wraith Todd, Sanctuary's Bigfoot and John Druitt, Marcus in Twilight. What I find interesting is how he uses that height and that face for slow, controlled dread rather than cheap villainy. He's a character actor in the best sense, the guy who makes a scene feel dangerous just by entering it. Stars get the posters, but performers like Heyerdahl are why the worlds around them feel real.

Overview

Christopher Heyerdahl (born September 18, 1963) is a Canadian actor who portrayed Alastair in Supernatural, the Wraith Todd and the Athosian Halling in Stargate Atlantis, Sam in Van Helsing, "Swede" in Hell on Wheels, Bigfoot and John Druitt in Sanctuary, and Marcus in The Twilight Saga.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Christopher Heyerdahl
Name (Japanese): クリストファー・ハイアーダール
Reading: くりすとふぁー・はいあーだーる
Born: September 18, 1963 (age 62)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Virgo / Rabbit
Origin: British Columbia, Canada
Blood type: Private
Height: 201 cm
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Occupation: actor / film actor / television actor / dub actor

2. Background

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4. Personality

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