Chelah Horsdal is a Canadian actress. She is known for her regular roles in the television series Hell on Wheels, When Calls the Heart, and The Man in the High Castle, recurring roles on Stargate SG-1, Level Up, Arrow, and Star Trek: Discovery, and for her roles in the films Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem and Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Horsdal was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She says she "was born to hippie parents while surrounded by friends and family on the 'farm' Headacres."
She is the daughter of mother Lindsay and folksinger father Valdy. She grew up with her mother in Kitsilano and attended Bayview Elementary followed by Lord Byng Secondary. She began modelling in locally shot TV shows and commercials at 18, and then lived in the Caribbean for a year.
Horsdal began her acting career in 2002. She has since appeared in more than 75 commercials as well as in films and on television. She has played lead and supporting roles on Hell on Wheels, The Man In the High Castle, When Calls the Heart, Candiland, Patterson's Wager, Three Weeks, Three Kids, On Strike For Christmas, Marley & Me: The Puppy Years, and Lifetime's The Client List. She had lead roles in Lying To Be Perfect and Mrs. Miracle.
Additional credits include leads on the feature Burning Mussolini, Nickelodeon's Gym Teacher: The Movie, co-starring Christopher Meloni and Amy Sedaris, Flirting with Forty with Heather Locklear and the FOX TV pilot The Virgin of Akron, Ohio. Supporting leads include Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem for 20th Century Fox and Possession alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar, as well as Elegy with Ben Kingsley and Penélope Cruz and Rise of the Planet of the Apes with John Lithgow and James Franco.
Her performances in the short films Dark Room (2006) and The Hostage (2010) both earned Leo nominations for Best Performance. Recurring roles include Battlestar Galactica, Exes & Ohs, The L Word, Stargate: SG1, Saved, DaVinci's Inquest, Whistler, Blackstone, Clue and Cartoon Network's Level Up.
The Hostage, for which Horsdal was nominated for Best Actress at the 2011 Leos, co-starred and was produced by Tahmoh Penikett and Aleks Paunovic. Horsdal was nominated for four more Leo Awards for her guest starring turn on Arctic Air (2013), for Hell on Wheels and When Calls the Heart, and for Patterson's Wager.
Gender
Female
Birthday
1973-06-19
Place of birth
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
The Cabin in the Woods
2012
6.63
Elegy
2008
6.30
Possession
2009
5.50
Gym Teacher: The Movie
2008
7.10
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
7.33
Altitude
2010
4.69
Burning Mussolini
2009
6.40
The Tortured
2010
5.29
Pursued
2004
5.15
Prom Pact
2023
7.30
Last Stand to Nowhere
2019
0.00
Three Weeks, Three Kids
2011
6.20
Kill for Me
2013
5.70
Midnight Stallion
2013
4.94
Hunting Season
2013
5.70
Flirting with Forty
2008
5.19
Passengers
2008
6.10
Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
2007
5.17
Hollow Man II
2006
4.92
If I Stay
2014
7.37
Past Lies
2008
3.00
Perfect Child
2007
5.25
Lying to Be Perfect
2010
6.07
Sole Custody
2014
8.00
Dreams in the Witch House
2005
6.50
Helen
2009
6.70
Mrs. Miracle
2009
6.00
Come Dance at My Wedding
2009
6.40
The Client List
2010
5.90
Paycheck
2003
6.21
Pretty Little Addict
2016
6.00
Clue: A Movie Mystery Adventure
2014
6.90
Patterson's Wager
2015
6.00
Candiland
2016
5.40
Gord's Brother
2015
7.00
Fallen
2006
6.90
Alien Trespass
2009
5.11
The Grim Sleeper
2014
4.90
The Show
2017
5.69
A Decent Proposal
2007
2.00
Boundaries
2018
5.60
X-Men: The Last Stand
2006
6.41
Marley & Me: The Puppy Years
2011
5.70
Noelle
2019
6.60
Ash
2019
1.00
Spontaneous
2020
6.80
It's Christmas, Carol!
2012
5.60
Even Lambs Have Teeth
2015
5.70
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2005
6.60
The Pink Panther
2006
5.84
Vice
2008
4.05
Ashes Fall
2007
0.00
Betwixt
2010
0.00
When Calls the Heart: The Dance
2014
0.00