Mark Rendall

Mark Rendall (born October 21, 1988 ) 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 television 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 as the title character 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, the son of Catherine (née Sachs), a watercolour artist and Henry Rendall, an advertising agent. He has two older brothers, David, who is also an actor and Matthew. His father is Jewish while his mother is Christian and he celebrates both Jewish and Christian holidays.

Career Rendall started acting at the age of ten, when he asked his parents if he could try his hand at acting. At about that time, the Cameron Maclntosh London touring production of the musical "Oliver" was holding auditions for children. Although he had no formal training in either acting or singing, Rendall 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. He also redubbed Bradley's voice as the title character in Season 6.

In 2003, he voiced Noodle in the first season of the children's series The Save-Ums!.

In 2005, he voiced 14-year-old Jester in the Canadian-New Zealand CGI animated series 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.

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 Arthur It's Only Rock 'n' Roll Arthur Read Voice, TV film 2002–2003 Arthur Voice, 20 episodes; seasons 7 and 8 2003 Open House Travis Morrow Blizzard Joe The Save-Ums! Noodle Voice, season 1 Ghost Cat Pearson Shawn 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 Jester 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 2024 The Apprentice Roger Stone 2025 Ginny & Georgia Mr. Kay 5 episodes