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Shawn Ashmore
Ashmore in 2014
Born
Shawn Robert Ashmore

(1979-10-07) October 7, 1979 (age 45)
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
OccupationActor
Years active1989–present
Spouse
Dana Renee Wasdin
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(m. 2012)​
Children1
RelativesAaron Ashmore (twin brother)

Shawn Robert Ashmore (born October 7, 1979)[1] is a Canadian actor. He is known for his roles as Bobby Drake / Iceman in the X-Men film series, Jake in the television series Animorphs, Agent Mike Weston in the television drama series The Following, Eric in the horror film The Ruins, Sam Spencer in the ABC series Conviction, Wesley Evers in the ABC series The Rookie, and Lamplighter in the Amazon Prime Video superhero series The Boys. Ashmore also plays the main character, Jack Joyce, in the 2016 video game Quantum Break, as well as Conrad in 2019's Man of Medan. For the portrayal of Terry Fox in the film Terry, Ashmore received a Gemini Award nomination. He is the identical twin brother of actor Aaron Ashmore.

Early life

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Ashmore was born in Richmond, British Columbia,[1] the son of Linda (née Davis), a homemaker, and Rick Ashmore,[2] a manufacturing engineer. He was raised in St. Albert, Alberta and Brampton, Ontario, where he attended Earnscliffe Senior Public School and Turner Fenton Secondary School. His identical twin brother, Aaron Ashmore, is also an actor. Aaron and Shawn have played twins in several movies, but have also pursued roles independently. Aaron is slightly taller than Shawn and, according to Aaron, Shawn often gets cast as the nice guy while Aaron is cast as the bully.[3] They have a "GMA" tattoo on their wrists that stands for "Good Man Ashmore"; their grandfather had a similar tattoo.[4]

Career

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Ashmore in January 2010

One of Ashmore's notable roles was as Iceman in X-Men and its sequels X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand. Ashmore also reprised his role as Iceman in the animated series The Super Hero Squad Show, as well as voicing the role for X-Men: The Official Game.[5][6]

Ashmore starred as Cadet Major Brad Rigby in Cadet Kelly,[7] a Disney Channel original film which aired in 2002 and he guest-starred as Eric Summers in two episodes of Smallville, a series on which his brother was later cast in the role of Jimmy Olsen.[8] Ashmore had starring roles on Animorphs as Jake and In a Heartbeat as Tyler Connell.[9][10]

In December 2004, Ashmore was cast in the lead role in the SciFi Channel mini series Legend of Earthsea, based on the novels by Ursula K. Le Guin.[11] He played the role of Ged, a young wizard-in-training, who takes advice from a Magus (Danny Glover) and falls in love with Tenar (Kristin Kreuk), the protege of the High Priestess of the Tombs of Atuan (Isabella Rossellini).[12]

In 2005, Ashmore starred in a CTV TV movie about Terry Fox's historic run across Canada, which aired in September of that year.[13][14] In 2008, he starred as one of the leads in the 2008 horror film The Ruins.[15] Ashmore was cast in Adam Green's 2010 dramatic thriller Frozen as Joe Lynch.[16]

Ashmore starred in the apocalyptic siege warfare film The Day with Dominic Monaghan, Michael Eklund, Shannyn Sossamon, and Ashley Bell.[17][18] Ashmore also starred in the television drama series The Following, starring Kevin Bacon.[19][20] He reprised his role as Iceman in the 2014 film X-Men: Days of Future Past.[21][22]

In April 2016, Shawn appeared in Quantum Break, a singleplayer third-person shooter video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Studios, that features high budget live action TV show-like cut scenes where Shawn plays the main character, Jack Joyce.[23][24] He also did the motion capture and voice acting for the character.[25][26]

From October 2016 to January 2017, he played the role of Sam Spencer on the U.S. legal drama Conviction.[27][28] The series was filmed in Toronto.[29]

In 2020, Ashmore recurred in the second season of the Amazon Prime Video superhero series The Boys as Lamplighter, a former member of the superhero group the Seven.

Personal life

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On July 27, 2012, Ashmore married film executive Dana Renee Wasdin, whom he met while filming Frozen.[30] The couple has one son, born in 2017.[31][32]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1991 Married to It Student in pageant
1998 All I Wanna Do Photographer Originally titled The Hairy Bird
2000 X-Men Bobby Drake / Iceman
2001 Wolf Girl Beau
2002 Cadet Kelly Brad Rigby Disney Channel Original Movie
2003 X2 Bobby Drake / Iceman MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (with Anna Paquin)
Nominated—Saturn Award for Cinescape Genre Face of the Future (Male)
Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Chemistry (with Anna Paquin)
2005 Underclassman Rob Donovan
3 Needles Denys, the porn actor
The Quiet Connor
2006 X-Men: The Last Stand Bobby Drake / Iceman
2008 Solstice Christian
The Ruins Eric
2010 Frozen Joe Lynch
Mother's Day George Barnum
2011 The Day Adam
2012 Mariachi Gringo Edward
Breaking the Girls Eric
2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past Bobby Drake / Iceman
2016 Home Invasion N/A Executive producer
2017 Devil's Gate Conrad "Colt" Salter
Hollow in the Land Darryl
2018 Acts of Violence Brandon
2020 Darkness Falls Jeff Anderson
2021 Aftermath Kevin Dadich

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1989 Katts and Dog Episode: "Mistaken Identity"
1992 The Ray Bradbury Theater Charlie Episode: "Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties"
Mr. Dressup Shawn [33]
1993 Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer Young Brian Spencer TV film
1996 Any Mother's Son Billy TV film
1997 Flash Forward Gord Episode: "Mudpack"
Promise the Moon Leviatus Bennett TV film
Melanie Darrow David Abbott TV film
Fast Track Young Chandler Episode: "Combustions"
1998–1999 Animorphs Jake Main role
1999 Deep in the City Tyler Episode: "Departures"
Real Kids, Real Adventures Aaron Hall Episode: "Mountain Lion"
At the Mercy of a Stranger Danny TV film
2000 Earth: Final Conflict Max Episode: "Sanctuary"
The Famous Jett Jackson Chet Episode: "What You Wish For"
2000–2001 In a Heartbeat Tyler Connell Main role
2001 The Big House Trevor Brewster TV film
Blackout First Son TV film
The Outer Limits Morris Shottwell Episode: "Lion's Den"
Wolf Girl Beau TV film
2002 Aces TV film
2002–2004 Smallville Eric Summers Episodes: "Leech", "Asylum"
2004 Earthsea Ged Miniseries
Leo Award for Best Lead Performance By a Male in a Feature Length Drama
2005 Terry Terry Fox TV film
Nominated—Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series
2009 Diverted Mike Stiven TV film
2009–2010 The Super Hero Squad Show Bobby Drake / Iceman (voice) Episodes: "Mysterious Mayhem at Mutant High!", "The Ice Melt Cometh!"
2010 Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures Fitz Miniseries
Fringe Joshua Rose Episode: "Amber 31422"
2013–2015 The Following Mike Weston Main role
2016 Relationship Status Ben 3 episodes
2016–2017 Conviction Sam Spencer Main role
2018 S.W.A.T. William Tanner 1 episode
2018–present The Rookie Wesley Evers Recurring role (seasons 1–2); main role (season 3–present)
2019 Into the Dark Thomas Episode: "Culture Shock"
2020 The Boys Lamplighter 3 episodes
2022 The Rookie: Feds Wesley Evers Episode: "Standoff"

Video games

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Year Title Voice role Notes
2006 X-Men: The Official Game Bobby Drake / Iceman
2016 Quantum Break Jack Joyce Also likeness and motion capture
2019 The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan Conrad Also likeness and motion capture
2023 Alan Wake II Tim Breaker / the actor Also likeness and motion capture
2024 Sons of the Forest Timmy

References

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  1. ^ a b "Shawn Ashmore". TV Guide. Retrieved September 23, 2009.
  2. ^ "Richard Ashmore Obituary (1949 - 2021) - St. Catharines, ON - St. Catharines Standard". www.legacy.com.
  3. ^ Bull, Ron. "The Famous Aaron Ashmore Closes in on Stardom". The Toronto Star. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
  4. ^ "Tattoos". Aaron-Ashmore.com. Retrieved August 29, 2006.
  5. ^ Wong, Curtis M. (December 9, 2015). "X-Men Star Shawn Ashmore Wants To Play Iceman As Gay". HuffPost. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  6. ^ "Iceman, alias mutante de Bobby Drake en "X-Men", se da su primer beso gay". Universo Gay (in Spanish). Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  7. ^ Lakshmin, Deepa. "Why Do You Still Love Disney Channel Movies? Cadet Kelly's Shawn Ashmore Explains". MTV News. Archived from the original on April 27, 2016. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  8. ^ "Shawn Ashmore (Seasons 1 and 3) from 30 Smallville Stars and Guest Stars You Might Have Forgotten About". E! Online. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  9. ^ Barbosa, José (April 21, 2016). "Video: the last Animorphs mystery solved by star Shawn Ashmore". The Spinoff. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  10. ^ "In a Heartbeat Gives Disney a Lifeline to Older Teens". Los Angeles Times. August 26, 2000. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  11. ^ "Legend of Earthsea | TV Guide". TVGuide.com. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  12. ^ Lowry, Brian (December 12, 2004). "Legend of Earthsea". Variety. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  13. ^ "An emotional, wrenching run". Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  14. ^ "Relive Terry Fox's Dream with CTV Original Movie TERRY, Premiering Sunday, September 11". www.bce.ca. Archived from the original on September 2, 2019. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  15. ^ "Exclusive: Shawn Ashmore Visits The Ruins". ComingSoon.net. March 30, 2008. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  16. ^ Catsoulis, Jaannette (February 4, 2010). "A Nightmare on a Ski Lift". New York Times. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
  17. ^ "On A Gray Day, One Last Post-Apocalyptic Stand". NPR.org. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  18. ^ "AFM 2011: Entertainment One Seizes Post-Apocalyptic Thriller The Day". The Hollywood Reporter. November 2, 2011. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  19. ^ Jim, Big (January 9, 2013). "Shawn Ashmore of The Following on FOX Once Played His Twin Brother Playing His Twin Brother [Celebrity Interview]". 983 The KEY. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  20. ^ "The Following Postmortem: Shawn Ashmore on the Aftermath of a Big Team Change". The Hollywood Reporter. February 4, 2013. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  21. ^ "Canadian Shawn Ashmore talks his role in X-Men: Days of Future Past". www.citynews1130.com. October 14, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  22. ^ "X-Men: Days of Future Past Star Shawn Ashmore: 'I've Been Waiting to See Bobby Drake Do His Thing' (Video)". TheWrap. May 13, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  23. ^ "Quantum Break: Shawn Ashmore talks time travel, virtual reality and Andy Serkis". Empire. April 4, 2016. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  24. ^ Loveridge, Sam (April 5, 2016). "Shawn Ashmore talks making Quantum Break and gay Iceman". Digital Spy. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  25. ^ Quantum Break's Shawn Ashmore on the Future of Performance Capture - IGN, April 26, 2016, retrieved September 2, 2019
  26. ^ Schulz, Chris (April 12, 2016). "Why Quantum Break star Shawn Ashmore can't play his own game". The New Zealand Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  27. ^ "Shawn Ashmore". vox.de (in German). July 12, 2018. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  28. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (February 11, 2016). "Shawn Ashmore Joins ABC's Conviction". Deadline. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  29. ^ "Conviction Video Clips". ABC. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
  30. ^ "Shawn Ashmore is married". People. August 29, 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
  31. ^ "Shawn Ashmore Welcomes a Son". E! Online. July 18, 2017. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  32. ^ "Shawn Ashmore Welcomes Son Oliver". People. July 18, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  33. ^ "Mr. Dressup with Guest Shawn Ashmore (1992)". YouTube. April 23, 2023.
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