Mark Rendall

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[edit] ==
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[edit] ==
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[edit] ===
After Justin Bradley ended voicing Arthur, Rendall took his place for seasons 7 and 8. He also dubbed over Bradley's voice for reruns of season 6 due to Bradley's voice being too deep and lacking the vocal range of Michael Yarmush, who was the character's previous voice actor.
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[edit] ===
In August 2021, Rendall and Elliot Page released three home recorded, low-fidelity tracks and gave them away on Bandcamp.[3][4]
== Filmography[edit] ==
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
2000 	The War Next Door 	Lucas Smith 	3 episodes
2000 	Yo Awesome Awesome! 	Kid 	Episode: "Dirty Knees"
2001 	Tales from the Neverending Story 	Bastian Balthazar Bux	
2001 	The Impossible Elephant 	Daniel Harris 	
2001 	Screech Owls 	Brandon Williams 	Episode: "Dead on Arrival"
2001 	Beyblade 	Nicky, Boy 	Voice, episode: "A Star is Born"
2002 	The Scream Team 	Ian Carlyle 	
2002 	The Interrogation of Michael Crowe 	Michael Crowe 	
2002–2003	Arthur 	Arthur Read 	Voice, 20 episodes; seasons 7 and 8
2003 	Open House 	Travis Morrow 	
2003 	Blizzard 	Joe 	
2003 	The Save-Ums! 	Noodle 	Voice, season 1
2003–2005	King 	Russell Wright 	Voice, main role
2004 	A Different Loyalty 	Oliver Cauffied 	
2004 	Childstar 	Taylor Brandon Burns 	
2004 	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 	
2006 	Jane and the Dragon 	Additional voices 	26 episodes
2007 	30 Days of Night 	Jake Oleson 	
2007 	Charlie Bartlett 	Kip Crombwell 	
2007 	Silk 	Ludovic Berbek 	
2009 	Victoria Day 	Ben Spektor 	
2009 	The Exploding Girl 	Al 	
2009 	My One and Only 	Robbie 	
2009 	Year of the Carnivore 	Eugene Zaslavsky 	
2013 	Hannibal 	Nicholas Boyle 	
2013 	The Bird Men 	Ben 	
2013 	Algonquin 	Jake Roulette 	
2016 	The History of Love 	Young Léo Gursky 	
2016 	Murdoch Mysteries 	Mr. Foley 	Episode: "The Devil Inside"
2017 	Versailles 	Thomas Beaumont 	
2017 	Shimmer Lake 	Chris Morrow 	
2017 	We Forgot to Break Up 	Lugh 	
2018 	Stockholm 	Elov Eriksson 	
2020 	Dead Still 	Percy Cummins 	
2020 	No Good Deed 	Jeremy 	
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Category:Canadian male voice actors
Category:Canadian male television actors
Category:21st-century Canadian male actors
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