Chelah Horsdal
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.
Born: 19 June 1973
Played In
Off Campus
Carrie Wells
Sheriff Country
Judge Merry MacRae
Prom Pact
Mrs. Lansing
Firefly Lane
Margie
Spontaneous
Denise
Noelle
Shelley Sussman
Ash
Gail Hurst
Last Stand to Nowhere
Wylona Earp
Boundaries
Therapist
The Good Doctor
Tessa
Star Trek: Discovery
UFP President Laira Rillak
The Show
Elliot's Mom
Pretty Little Addict
Donna Phillips
Candiland
Tess/The Queen
Even Lambs Have Teeth
Abby
UnREAL
Louise
The Returned
Kris
Patterson's Wager
Audrey
Gord's Brother
Amanda
The Man in the High Castle
Helen Smith
When Calls the Heart: The Dance
Cat Montgomery
When Calls the Heart: A Telling Silence
Cat Montgomery
If I Stay
Liddy
Clue: A Movie Mystery Adventure
Headmistress Kroger
The 100
Simone Lightbourne
The Grim Sleeper
Livi Vazquez
When Calls the Heart
Cat Montgomery
Sole Custody
Ann
Hunting Season
Nancy
Midnight Stallion
Rita Shephard
Kill for Me
Maria Klein
Motive
Deana Mitchell
It's Christmas, Carol!
Tanya
Emily Owens, M.D.
Marian Kramden
Arrow
Kate Spencer
The Cabin in the Woods
Demo Girl
Level Up
Barbara
Hell on Wheels
Margaret Palmer
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Irena - Charles' Nurse
Marley & Me: The Puppy Years
Carol Grogan
Three Weeks, Three Kids
Mandy Norton
Fairly Legal
Brooke Keller
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
Chris' Mom
Altitude
Mrs. Taylor
The Client List
Doreen
The Tortured
Liane Strader
Lying to Be Perfect
Nancy
Betwixt
Vanessa
Life Unexpected
Prosecutor
Mrs. Miracle
Kate Preston
Helen
Kara
Possession
Miranda
Come Dance at My Wedding
Nancy Reed
Alien Trespass
Betsy's Mother
Burning Mussolini
Cheryll Witherspoon
Flirting with Forty
Anne
Passengers
Janice
Gym Teacher: The Movie
Winnie
Elegy
Susan Reese
Vice
Woman in Elevator
Past Lies
Danielle
The Guard
Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
Darcy
Exes & Ohs
Lauren Brooks
Bionic Woman
Suicidal Woman
Perfect Child
Jen
Crossroads - A Story of Forgiveness
Cindy
Ashes Fall
Joanna
A Decent Proposal
Cynthia Lewis
Men in Trees
Pretty Redhead
Fallen
Lori Corbett
Eureka
Mary-Beth Curtis
Psych
Beth
Whistler
X-Men: The Last Stand
Minivan Mother
Hollow Man II
Blind Secretary
The Evidence
The Pink Panther
Security Guard
Dreams in the Witch House
Frances Elwood
Masters of Horror
Frances Elwood
Criminal Minds
Heather Woodland
Supernatural
Cute Librarian
Supernatural
Bobby's Mother
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Asst. DA #3
Reunion
Robson Arms
Pursued
Sharon
Battlestar Galactica
Didi Cassidy
Stargate Atlantis
Erran
The 4400
Jeanine
Paycheck
Young Mother
Tru Calling
Admissions Officer
The Dead Zone
Janet Miller
Smallville
Dr. McCann
Andromeda
Misabo Ahm
Stargate SG-1
Lt. Catherine Womack
Stargate SG-1
Lt. Womack
The Hat Squad
Young Woman
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Cindy
The Ambassador
Mrs. Spencer
Never Use Alone
Ramona