Kendall Francis Schmidt was born
November 2, 1990 in Wichita, Kansas, but almost immediately his family settled in the city of Andover. He is the son of Kent and Kathy Schmidt and has two older brothers named
Kevin and Kenneth Schmidt respectively.
From a very young age he wanted to be an actor and this idea was due to the fact that his brothers also wanted to become artists and pursue a career as actors. When he was ten years old, he moved with his family to the city of Los Angeles, California.
At the age of six and after appearing in a casting, he was selected to appear in the Chex brand cereal commercial. Four years later, he would be the actor’s double Haley Joel Osment in the movie Artificial intelligence from Steven Spielberg.
Later as a teenager, he would have the opportunity to appear in an episode of the Ghost Whisperer series, next to Jennifer Love Hewitt.
In 2009 the cast for the Big Time Rush series was almost complete, and it would be Logan Henderson who recommended that the show’s producers give Kendall a test run. In this way, he would be the last actor selected to play the role of Kendall Knight. Kendall did not appear in the first episode of the series, but on the day it was released, it had an audience of 6.8 million viewers, making Big Time Rush one of the most watched shows on the Nickelodeon network.
The musical band that bears the same name as the TV series is made up of James Maslow, Carlos Pena Jr. Y Logan Henderson. For 2009, he would sign a musical contract with his companions with the record label Columbia Records.
With Big Time Rush he has recorded several songs such as “City is Ours”, “Nothing Even Matters”, “Halfway There”, “Famous”, “Till Forget About you” and his debut single “Big Time Rush”. They have an official single from the album called Boyfriend, the album was released on February 8, 2011 and they had the support of the rapper. Snoop dogg.
The debut album was released on October 11, 2010 on Sony and Columbia Records. The disc was placed in the number three on the Billboard 200 chart and # 1 on ITunes’ Digital Albums chart.All members of the band were present at the 2010 Kids Choice Awards and the 2011 Kids Choice Awards.
On November 21, 2011, the band released the second album they called Elevate, this includes the songs “If Ruled The world”, “Show me”, “Superstar”, “Invisible”, “Intermission”, “Love Me Love Me “,” paralyzed “,” All Over Again “,” Cover girl “,” Time of our life “,” You’re not alone “,” Elevate “and the one with the highest tune” Music Sounds Better with You “.
Kendall is also an excellent dancer and has shown it more than once in the series.
In his acting career he has played several supporting roles in other series such as ER, Without a trace, Phil of the Future and Frasier.