Biography
Cameron McKendry was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, where he discovered his passion for entertainment at the age of three. His career began with hip-hop dance, and by age eight, he was invited to join the prestigious second class at Shaker Dance Academy in Shaker Heights, Ohio, where he was paired with teenagers and young adults. At nine, he shifted his focus to acting, performing in professional and community theater throughout the Greater Cleveland area, including productions at the Cleveland Play House such as A Christmas Story and Inherit the Wind. Around age 14, Cameron transitioned to film, appearing in numerous independent features, short films, and local and national commercials in Ohio. In 2014, he relocated to Los Angeles, where he signed with talent manager Ryan Daly at Zero Gravity Management and later with agent Jason Zenowich at Abrams Artists Agency.
Cameron is best known for his lead role as Alex Dickerson in the 2016 PureFlix/Universal Studios film I'm Not Ashamed, which tells the story of Rachel Joy Scott, the first victim of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting. He also portrayed Moose, a bully at Jeffrey Dahmer’s high school, in My Friend Dahmer (2017). His other film credits include Madtown (2018), starring Milo Ventimiglia, where he played Mike Joss; The Pastor (2018), in which he starred as troubled teen Jacob Holloway; and An Accidental Zombie (Named Ted) (2018), playing the lead role of Ted, a man struggling with a curse turning him into a zombie. This film also featured Naomi Grossman from American Horror Story, comedian Gary Anthony Williams, and Kane Hodder from Friday the 13th. Additional roles include indie films Since I Don't Have You (2013), Young Harvest (2013), Chasing Death (2013), A Reprise (2013), and a guest appearance on Nickelodeon's Supah Ninjas. Cameron had a recurring role as conservative student union president Josh in the fifth season of Freeform’s The Fosters (2018) and is set to recur in the upcoming third season of GO-90, Stage 13, and Warner Bros’ horror-comedy series Snatchers (2017), whose first two seasons premiered at SXSW.
