Michael Eklund is a Canadian television and film actor who is known for playing the role of the villain or antihero. His characters are often described as being “creepy”.
Who played Jacob Van Helsing?
Van Helsing (TV Series 2016–2021) – Michael Eklund as Abraham Van Helsing, Jacob Van Helsing.
What happened to Jacob in Van Helsing?
After Jacob tried to turn the sisters against each other by telling them only one of them would make it out of their mission alive, Vanessa gruesomely dispatched the Elder by tearing out his throat with her teeth and disemboweling him with her bare hands.
Despite Jacob Van Helsing’s brutal death in season 3 of the Syfy TV show, “Crooked Steps” wasn’t the character’s last appearance in the series.
In the Van Helsing season, 4 episode “The Prism”, a flashback to the Victorian era revealed that Jacob was turned into a vampire by his apprentice Hansen (Neal McDonough) who went on to establish Blak Tek – a shady organization that sought to use the more desirable aspects of vampire genetics to develop a life-lengthening drug for humans.