Kendall Schmidt American Singer Born 1990 in Wichita

Early life

Kendall Schmidt was born on 2 November 1990 in Wichita, Kansas. He started acting as a small child, appearing in a television commercial for a breakfast cereal at the age of five. At nine he was hired as a stand-in and body double for Haley Joel Osment on the Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. When he was ten, his family moved from Kansas to California. Two of his brothers, Kenneth and Kevin, are also actors.

Career

Schmidt's first screen work came in the early 2000s. In 2001 he took recurring parts on shows including General Hospital, Titus, Raising Dad, Gilmore Girls and CSI: Miami, and he made guest appearances on ER, MADtv, Frasier and Phil of the Future. Later guest roles included Without a Trace and Ghost Whisperer. His film credits from this period include Minority Report and According to Spencer.

His breakthrough came in 2009, when he was cast in the lead role of Kendall Knight in the Nickelodeon series Big Time Rush. The show followed a fictional boy band, and the cast also performed as a real group under the same name. Nickelodeon signed the group, and its first album, BTR, was released on 11 October 2010. It debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 and later received a gold certification from the RIAA. A holiday EP followed in November 2010, and the single "Boyfriend" reached number 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2011, the group's highest-placing song. A second album, Elevate, was released on 21 November 2011 and opened at number 12 on the Billboard 200 with more than 70,000 copies sold in its first week. The cast starred in a feature film, Big Time Movie, in 2012. Nickelodeon renewed the series for a fourth season of 13 episodes in 2013, and the third album, 24/Seven, appeared in June of that year. The group went on hiatus in March 2014.

After the break he returned to Heffron Drive, the duo he had performed with before the Nickelodeon show. Its first single of that period, "Parallel", came out in March 2014 on his own label, TOLBooth Records. Later releases included "Living Room" in January 2017 and "Mad at the World" in January 2018, and the duo's second album is titled Separate Lives. In April 2020 the Big Time Rush members posted a video together for fans during the early part of the pandemic, and they formally reunited in 2021. The reunited group released its fourth studio album, Another Life, on 2 June 2023. Schmidt plays guitar and is credited as a songwriter and music producer as well as a singer. He also appeared in the 2015 film Janoskians: Untold and Untrue.

Public roles

Beyond music and acting, Schmidt runs a YouTube channel that had about 187,000 subscribers when last counted in May 2025, and his Instagram account has more than 1.7 million followers.

Personal life

Schmidt became engaged to Mica Von Turkovich on 30 June 2022 after a relationship of seven years, and the couple later married. They announced the birth of their daughter in March 2024.