Kendall Francis Schmidt (born November 2, 1990) is an American actor, pop rock singer-songwriter and music producer. He is best known for playing Kendall Knight in Big Time Rush, participating in a boy band with the same name, and playing small roles on several TV shows such as ER, Without a Trace, Phil of the Future, Ghost Whisperer, Gilmore Girls, and Frasier. Schmidt's first single with Heffron Drive, "Parallel," was released in March 2014 through his very own record label TOLBooth Records.