Ron Pardo
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Ron Pardo is a Canadian actor and impressionist, known for playing a wide variety of characters on the television show History Bites.
He was raised in Pardoville, Ontario (named for his ancestors), a small farming hamlet near Chatham and went to school in nearby Blenheim. He later studied radio and television at Ryerson University in Toronto, followed by working on-air and as a copywriter at CFCO Radio in Chatham. Pardo later attended the University of Western Ontario in London to study education, and worked as a teacher for a few years.
He realized early on that he had a talent for mimicry, first of cartoon characters and later of celebrities. In 1993 he decided to see if he could make a career of comedy and in 1995 he resigned his teaching position, having won Yuk Yuk's Search For Canada's Funniest New Comic Award.
In 1997 Pardo came to the attention of former Frantic Rick Green, who hired Ron to perform his characters for the pilot of Rick's new show History Bites. Pardo starred on the show for 5 seasons, receiving a Gemini Award nomination in 2000.
In March 2008, the animated TV series World of Quest began airing on the Kids WB on The CW Television network in the U.S. Pardo provides the voice of the title character Quest, as well as numerous supporting characters in the show. He also provides the voice for the evil character Hal-G in the animated TV series Bakugan Battle Brawlers. [1]
