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Mark Rendall

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Mark Rendall
Born (1988-10-21) October 21, 1988 (age 36)
OccupationActor
Years active1999–present

Mark Rendall (born October 21, 1988[1]) is a Canadian film, television and voice actor whose roles include the lead in the 2004 film, Childstar and Mick in season 1 of the Canadian television drama series ReGenesis. He played Bastian Bux in the TV series, Tales from the Neverending Story, and the title character in The Interrogation of Michael Crowe. He has also done voice work for the television series Jane and the Dragon and Time Warp Trio, and starred in the popular PBS Kids TV series Arthur (seasons 7–8; season 6 redub). Recently, Rendall has appeared in several Hollywood films.

Early life

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Rendall was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Cathy and Henry Rendall. He has two older brothers, David (an actor) and Matthew. His father is Jewish and his mother is Christian and he celebrates both Jewish and Christian holidays.[2]

Career

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Rendall started acting at the age of ten, when he asked his parents if he could try his hand at acting. Fortunately, around the same time, the Cameron Maclntosh London touring production of the musical "Oliver" was holding auditions for children. Having had no formal training in either acting or singing, he surprised everyone when he was cast in the role of Spider, and as understudy to the lead role, Oliver.

He later starred in several films, including The Impossible Elephant, Tales from the Neverending Story (for which he received a 2002 Gemini nomination), the multi-award-winning Touching Wild Horses (2002) opposite Jane Seymour (for which he received a 2003 Young Artists Award nomination), Disney's The Scream Team with Eric Idle, the Court TV Peabody Award-winning true story, The Interrogation of Michael Crowe (for which he received a 2004 ACTRA Award nomination for Outstanding Performance - Male), Don McKellar's dark comedy Childstar (2004), opposite Jennifer Jason Leigh, Eric Stoltz and Dave Foley; the title role in Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story (2004) with Ed Begley, Jr. and Graham Greene, NBC's mini-series Revelations (2005) opposite Bill Pullman and Natascha MacElhone, and Francois Girard's Silk. In 2013, he played the lead role in the Canadian film Algonquin, shown at Montreal Film Festival.

Rendall played supporting roles in the films 30 Days of Night, opposite Josh Hartnett and Melissa George, and Charlie Bartlett, with Anton Yelchin and Kat Dennings. In 2009, he starred in the films, Victoria Day, directed by David Bezmozgis and The Exploding Girl, directed by Bradley Rust Gray.

Voice acting

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After Justin Bradley ended voicing Arthur, Rendall took his place for seasons 7 and 8.

In 2003, he voiced Noodle in the children's show The Save-Ums!.

In 2005, he voiced the 14-year-old Jester character of the New Zealand CGI animated show Jane and the Dragon. He has also provided voices for other animated shows, namely King, Time Warp Trio, and Wayside.

Music

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In August 2021, Rendall and Elliot Page released three home recorded, low-fidelity tracks and gave them away on Bandcamp.[3][4]

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
2000 The War Next Door Lucas Smith 3 episodes
Yo Awesome Awesome! Kid Episode: "Dirty Knees"
2001 Tales from the Neverending Story Bastian Balthazar Bux
The Impossible Elephant Daniel Harris
Screech Owls Brandon Williams Episode: "Dead on Arrival"
Beyblade Nicky, Boy Voice, episode: "A Star is Born"
2002 The Scream Team Ian Carlyle
The Interrogation of Michael Crowe Michael Crowe
2002–2003 Arthur Arthur Read Voice, 20 episodes; seasons 7 and 8
2003 Open House Travis Morrow
Blizzard Joe
The Save-Ums! Noodle Voice, season 1
2003–2005 King Russell Wright Voice, main role
2004 A Different Loyalty Oliver Cauffied
Childstar Taylor Brandon Burns
The Winning Season Joe Soshack
2004–2010 Franny's Feet Additional voices 6 episodes
2005 Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story Simon Jackson
2005–2006 Time Warp Trio Joe Arthur Voice, main role
2007–2008 Wayside Todd Voice, main role
2006 Len and Hugo Len
Jane and the Dragon Additional voices 26 episodes
2007 30 Days of Night Jake Oleson
Charlie Bartlett Kip Crombwell
Silk Ludovic Berbek
2009 Victoria Day Ben Spektor
The Exploding Girl Al
My One and Only Robbie
Year of the Carnivore Eugene Zaslavsky
2013 Hannibal Nicholas Boyle
The Bird Men Ben
Algonquin Jake Roulette
2016 The History of Love Young Léo Gursky
Murdoch Mysteries Mr. Foley Episode: "The Devil Inside"
2017 Versailles Thomas Beaumont
Shimmer Lake Chris Morrow
We Forgot to Break Up Lugh
2018 Stockholm Elov Eriksson
2020 Dead Still Percy Cummins
No Good Deed Jeremy

References

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  1. ^ "Mark Rendall Biography & Movies". Tribute. 2023.
  2. ^ CANOE - JAM! Movies - Artists - Rendall, Mark[usurped]
  3. ^ "Elliot Page just dropped his first album. It's a quirky 'lo-fi bedroom pop adventure'". LGBT Nation. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  4. ^ "Mark and Elliot". Bandcamp. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
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Preceded by Voice of Arthur Read
2002-2003
Succeeded by