Mark Rendall

Mark Rendall
Born	(1988-10-21) October 21, 1988 (age 36) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1999–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). Recently, Rendall has appeared in several Hollywood films.

Early life

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

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

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

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

Filmography

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

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. 28 August 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
4. "Mark and Elliot". Bandcamp. Retrieved 29 August 2021.

External links

• Mark Rendall at IMDb

Preceded by Justin Bradley

Voice of Arthur Read 2002-2003

Succeeded by Cameron Ansell