Brendan Beiser

Brendan Beiser is a Canadian actor whose best-known part is Agent Pendrell on the science fiction show The X-Files. Born in Boston in 1970, he has worked mostly in comedy, including sketch productions and comic roles. He appeared in the sketch comedy Aardvark and took comic parts in the feature Something Beneath (2007) and in television series such as Night Man, Wolf Canyon, Ice Angel (2000), and The Fear: Resurrection (1999). He voiced Quincy in Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action!, the animated series featuring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. For the 1997 Canadian Fringe Festival, he and Trevor White co-starred in Aardvark!, a stage play and short film that Beiser wrote and directed. He also directed a short about his attempt to produce a film for a festival competition, and the 2003 ReelFast 48 Hour Film Festival gave it the ZeD People's Choice Award. Beiser and White also run their own production company, Duck, a Whale.