Kyle Rideout

Kyle Rideout is a Canadian actor, writer, and film director. He garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 as cowriter with Josh Epstein of the film Eadweard, which Rideout directed.[1]

Kyle Rideout
Kyle Rideout at a CFC event in L.A.
Born	(1981-11-09) 9 November 1981 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	Actor, writer, director
Years active	2004–present

As an actor, he won a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award as Best Newcomer in 2005,[2] for his performance in a production of Josh MacDonald's play Halo.[3] 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.[4] In 2007, he starred as Romeo in Bard on the Beach's production of Romeo and Juliet.[5]

In 2010, he appeared in Studies in Motion: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge;[6] Eadweard Muybridge, the subject of that play, would also become the subject of Eadweard the film.[7]

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.