As an actor, Rideout won a
Jessie Richardson Theatre Award as Best Newcomer in 2005, for his performance in a production of Josh MacDonald's play
Halo. The following year, he won the award for Best Supporting Actor, Small Theatre Division, for his performance as Gordon in
David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin's ''The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Production of A Christmas Carol''. In 2007, he starred as
Romeo in
Bard on the Beach's production of
Romeo and Juliet. In 2010, he appeared in
Studies in Motion: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge;
Eadweard Muybridge, the subject of that play, would also become the subject of
Eadweard the film. He also appeared in Minecraft Mini Series as Durango. Rideout has also had guest roles in ''
Da Vinci's Inquest and Supernatural, and voice roles in Packages from Planet X, Littlest Pet Shop, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and the English language edition of The Story of Saiunkoku''. ==Filmography==