Mark Rendall

Rendall was born in Toronto, the son of Catherine (née Sachs), a watercolour artist and Henry Rendall, an advertising agent.^[2][3] 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.^[4]

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.^[5][6]