Mark Rendall (born October 21, 1988) is a Canadian actor. He is perhaps best known for starring in the title role of the 2005 film, Childstar. He played Bastian Bux in the TV series, Tales from the Neverending Story as well as playing the title character in The Interrogation of Michael Crowe. He also does voice work for the television series Jane and the Dragon as Jester. He also starred in the popular kid TV series Arthur (Season 6-8). He is also known for voicing a ten year old boy magician Joe in kid's TV series Time Warp Trio. Rendall was born in Toronto, Ontario to 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 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. He surprised everyone when he won the role of Spider and the lead role Oliver as the understudy (He surprised them because he had no training in acting or singing). He starred in many other things later such as The Impossible Elephant, Tales from the Neverending Story (for which Mark received a 2002 Gemini nomination), the multi-award-winning Touching Wild Horses (2002) opposite Jane Seymour (for which Mark 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 Mark 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. Mark's voice is also well-known as he was not only the voice of Arthur (1996) for 3 seasons in the PBS animated series of the same name, but a lead voice in such animated TV King, Time Warp Trio, "Wayside" and Jane and the Dragon. Rendall currently plays the role of Hawk in TV Series Revelations. He also appears in the TV movie Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story. In his spare time, Mark enjoys juggling, playing guitar, photography, baseball and spending time with his pet sugar gliders -- tiny flying Australian marsupials. He also stars in Silk, which was released in 2007. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
