Biography - Chelah Horsdal

Who is Chelah Horsdal?

Chelah Horsdal is an actress by profession and Canadian by nationality. She is well known for starring in the TV series Hell on Wheels, When Calls the Heart, The Man in the High Castle, Stargate SG-1, Level Up, Arrow, and in the films Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Chelah Horsdal – Age, Parents, Siblings

Chelah Horsdal was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on June 19, 1973. Her full name is Chelah Phoebe Horsdal, her mother’s name is Lindsay Whalen, and her father's name is Paul Valdemar Horsdal, who is a legendary Canadian folk singer. She is the only child of her parents and has no siblings. She was raised by her mother.

Education, Ethnicity

For education, she attended Bayview Elementary School and later studied at Lord Byng Secondary School. Chelah Horsdal also enrolled at the Lyric School of Acting in Vancouver where she studied acting.

Her ethnicity includes Danish, English, and Irish.

Chelah Horsdal – Boyfriend, Husband, Children, Divorce

There are no details of her past relationships, boyfriend, and dating history. She has never married, and sans husband, children. Horsdal seems to be very secretive about her personal life.

Chelah Horsdal – Career

Early Days

Horsdal began her career as a model, initially modeling in locally shot TV shows and commercials at the age of 18. She then moved to the Caribbean where she lived for a year. She began her career as an actress in the year 2002, her debut role being in a 2003 episode of Andromeda.

This was followed by appearances in the TV series Five Days to Midnight (2004), Stargate SG-1 (2004-2006), Criminal Minds (2005), Whistler (2006), and The L Word (2006-2008), to name a few. Moreover, Chelah Horsdal has starred in the films X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Hollow Man 2 (2006), Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), etc.

Films, TV Series

Over the years Chelah Horsdal has appeared in the films Passengers (2008), Helen (2009), Altitude (2010), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), No Clue (2013), Candiland (2016), Boundaries (2018), Noelle (2019), Ash (2019), and Spontaneous (2020), to name a few.

Among more than two dozen TV series in which she has portrayed characters, some are namely Bionic Woman (2007), Exes and Ohs (2007-2011), Blackstone (2011-2013), Level Up (2012-2013), Arrow (2012-2014) as Kate Spencer, Arctic Air (2013), Hell on Wheels (2013-2016) as Maggie Palmer, When Calls the Heart (2017), The Returned (2015), The Man in the High Castle (2015-2019), You Me Her (2016-2017), Firefly Lane (2020), among others.

Chelah Horsdal has also been credited for working on TV films Gym Teacher: The Movie (2008), Stargate: Atlantis (2008), It's Christmas, Carol! (2012), Pretty Little Addict (2016), etc.

Co-stars

On the set of Firefly Lane, Chelah Horsdal has worked with Roan Curtis, Brandon Jay McLaren, Ali Skovbye, Jason McKinnon, and Martin Donovan.

Chelah Horsdal – Awards, Nominations

For her work in films and series, Horsdal has been nominated for eight Leo Awards (2005, 2010, 2015 (2), 2014 (2), 2016, 2017), UBCP/ACTRA Award, and has won Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Award (2016), Leo Award (2017).

Chelah Horsdal – Net Worth, Salary

The net worth and annual salary of Horsdal are under review.

Chelah Horsdal – Instagram, Twitter, Facebook

On social media handles including Instagram, and Twitter, Chelah Horsdal is followed by thousands of followers but seems to be absent from Facebook.