Kyle Rideout

Kyle Rideout is a Canadian actor. He co-owns a production company called Motion 58 with business partner Josh Epstein. He co-wrote and directed the short films Hop the Twig and Wait for Rain as well as the feature films Eadweard and Adventures in Public School. Rideout's film have garnered a nomination for the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Discovery Award in 2017 for Adventures in Public School.

Career As an actor, Rideout won a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award as Best Newcomer in 2005, for his performance in a production of Josh MacDonald's play Halo. The following year, he won the award for Best Supporting Actor, Small Theatre Division, for his performance as Gordon in David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin's The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Production of A Christmas Carol. In 2007, he starred as Romeo in Bard on the Beach's production of Romeo and Juliet.

In 2010, he appeared in Studies in Motion: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge; Eadweard Muybridge, the subject of that play, would also become the subject of Eadweard the film. He also appeared in Minecraft Mini Series as Durango.

Rideout has also had guest roles in Da Vinci's Inquest and Supernatural, and voice roles in Packages from Planet X, Littlest Pet Shop, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and the English language edition of The Story of Saiunkoku.

Filmography

Film + Year Film Role Notes 2006 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Additional voices English dub 2007 Sword of the Stranger Feng-Wu English dub 2010 Hop the Twig Woodsman 2013 Barbie and the Pink Shoes Hilarion / Ballet Scout #2 (voice) 2020–2021 My Little Pony: Pony Life Dishwater Slog Voice 2021 Catch! Teenieping Freezeping Voice; Episode "The Coolest Friendship" 2023 The Good Doctor Bob Wachowski Episode: "365 Degrees" 2023 Psi Cops Rich Jerk 2 Episode: "Illuminaughty"2025 Happy Face Brendan Episode: "Controlled Burn"