Rodd Christensen is an American actor who portrayed Spencer the painter on the BBC children's television programme ''

Balamory ''Balamory'' is a Scottish live-action children's programme on CBeebies for pre-school children, about a fictional small island community off the west coast of Scotland, named ''Balamory''. Four series were produced from 2002 to 2005 by BBC Sco ...

''. He was the show's only non-British lead actor. He is also known for presenting shows for BBC Two. Christensen was born in

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and trained as an actor. A devout Christian, in 1991 he moved to Scotland, and spent eleven years doing youth work with charity

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."Balamory star Spencer gets himself a new job.. as a bus driver"
'' Daily Record'' Between 2002 and 2005, he appeared in ''

'' in the role of Spencer, a

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

and musician. Rodd presented a children's educational programme called 'Talkie Time' for BBC Two, with episodes airing in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, Rodd starred as a presenter for BBC Two for a programme called 'Counting With Rodd', an educational programme teaching children all about maths and numbers. His daughter is

Skin Diamond Raylin Joy (born February 18, 1987), formerly known by her stage name Skin Diamond, is an American actress, model, singer-songwriter and pornographic actress. Joy retired from adult film acting in 2016 to pursue other interests such as songwrit ...

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