Biography
Hans Christopher Brofeldt was born on February 21, 1982, in Sacramento, California — the son of a Swedish doctor and an American flight attendant. He spent the first year of his life in Playa Del Rey, Los Angeles, before his family relocated to Sacramento, where he was raised.
After graduating high school, Christopher enrolled at California State University, Long Beach, where he studied pre-medicine. He had no plans to become an actor. The pivot came unexpectedly — while helping a girlfriend who was studying drama to read lines, he discovered a fascination with the craft that he couldn't put down. He left the pre-med track and began studying acting in Los Angeles.
That scientific rigor didn't disappear. It became the foundation of his approach to character work — methodical preparation, close observation of human behavior, and a discipline about process that shows up in every role.
Christopher began his career in print and commercial work while training. His first film role came in 2012 with the short film The Take. Between 2012 and 2017, he appeared in more than a dozen short films including Far Between, Light of Night, and Lockdown — building the craft and accumulating the hours that would prepare him for the breakthrough.
In 2017, Christopher made his first television appearance as Randy Weaver in Paramount's Waco — a six-part miniseries starring Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch. The role put him on screen with established dramatic actors and proved he could hold his own in prestige television.
His first major film role followed quickly. In 2019, he played the alcoholic patriarch John Baker in Dreamland, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and starred Margot Robbie and Travis Fimmel. The role demanded the kind of raw, dangerous vulnerability that would become his signature — a man disintegrating under the weight of his own failures, played with both menace and heartbreak.
The years following the breakthrough brought a consistent stream of work across prestige television, independent film, and genre projects. Christopher appeared in The Walking Dead (AMC) as Nicholls, played the monstrously abusive Nick Archer in Lifetime's Model Citizen, and guest starred on NBC's Midnight, Texas and Hulu's Light as a Feather.
In 2022, his career accelerated. He was cast in a six-episode arc as Auge in the final season of TNT's Animal Kingdom — his most sustained television role. The same year, he appeared in American Gigolo (Showtime) alongside Jon Bernthal, 9-1-1 (Fox), and Sam Barlow's BAFTA Award-winning interactive film Immortality, where he played John Durick across three interconnected films-within-a-film. Immortality premiered at Tribeca and won the BAFTA for Narrative — Christopher's first project to earn a major international award.
He has since appeared in The Curse (A24/Paramount+, 2023) — created by Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie and starring Emma Stone — and Marmalade (2024) alongside Joe Keery and Aldis Hodge. Recent television credits include FBI: Most Wanted (CBS, 2024) and The Rookie (ABC, 2026).
Christopher's most prominent current credit is Reeling (2025), a drama directed by Yana Alliata and executive produced by Werner Herzog. The film world premiered as one of only eight narrative competition selections at the 2025 South by Southwest Film Festival. He stars as John Brown in what has become his most visible leading role to date.
He also appears opposite Joe Cole and Marshawn Lynch in the action crime-thriller He Bled Neon (2026), and stars in the short film The Daughter (2025), directed by Mary Ann Anane (The Farewell).
Directors who work with Christopher describe a performer who combines physical presence with emotional precision. He inhabits characters who carry weight — the father holding a family together by a thread, the cop who crosses the line, the quiet man with something dangerous underneath. His performances live in the spaces between words — long silences, loaded glances, controlled eruptions that feel inevitable rather than scripted.
His range crosses prestige drama, gritty crime thriller, dusty period pieces, and dark character-driven indie work. He is equally comfortable with physical work and intimate close-ups. He has performed in traditional film and television, interactive media, and short-form projects — adapting his process to the demands of each format.
Christopher has appeared alongside Margot Robbie (Dreamland, Tribeca 2019), Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch (Waco, Paramount), Emma Stone (The Curse, A24), Jon Bernthal (American Gigolo, Showtime), Joe Keery and Aldis Hodge (Marmalade), and Joe Cole and Marshawn Lynch (He Bled Neon).
He has worked under the executive production of Werner Herzog (Reeling, SXSW 2025) and BAFTA Award-winning director Sam Barlow (Immortality). The Curse was created by Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie — two of the most distinctive creative voices working in American television.
His work has been produced by or aired on A24, Paramount, AMC, TNT, Showtime, ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, Hulu, Lifetime, and LuckyChap Entertainment (Margot Robbie's production company).
Christopher is a poet and activist based in Venice, Los Angeles. He is a lifelong skateboarder. His cousin is author Kristina Denton. He dreams of someday creating and starring in his own American western.
He is represented by Sarah Nezamzadeh at Stride Management. View his complete filmography, demo reel, or press coverage.
