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• Is half-Norwegian, half-Scottish; his father came to Canada from Norway in the 1950s.
• Explorer Thor Heyerdahl is his father's cousin.
• Grew up in a house on Vancouver's Hollyburn Mountain with no running water.
• Considered becoming a psychologist before turning to acting.
• Spent two years acting with the Stratford Theatre Festival.
• For five months in 2011, he flew back and forth between the Vancouver set of Sanctuary and the Calgary set of Hell on Wheels.
• Wife is a high-school teacher.
• The facial tattoo he sported in Stargate: Atlantis was inspired by KISS guitarist Ace Frehley.
• Is fluent in French.