Shawn Ashmore

Shawn Ashmore
Born	Shawn Robert Ashmore October 7, 1979 (1979-10-07) (age 30) Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1991–present

Shawn Robert Ashmore (born October 7, 1979)^[1] is a Canadian film and television actor, most famously known in his role as Jake in the Animorphs and Iceman in the X-Men films. He is easily confused with his twin brother Aaron Ashmore.

Biography

Early life

Ashmore was born in Richmond, British Columbia,^[1] the son of Linda, a homemaker, and Rick Ashmore, a manufacturing engineer. He was raised in Brampton, Ontario where he attended 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 himself is cast as the bully.

Career

Ashmore's most famous role may be as Iceman in X-Men and its sequels X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand. While many of the minor characters were portrayed by different actors, Ashmore was kept for all the movies since his character was major in the first movie, unlike Shadowcat who had minor screen time in the first and second films. Ashmore will reprise his role as Iceman in the animated series The Super Hero Squad Show.

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

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. He played the role of Ged, a young wizard-in-training, who takes advice from Ogion (Danny Glover) and falls in love with Tenar (Kristin Kreuk), the protege of the High Priestess of the Tombs of Atuan (Isabella Rossellini). In 2005, Ashmore starred in a CTV TV movie about Terry Fox's historic run across Canada, which aired in September of that year. His most recent project was starring as one of the leads in the 2008 horror film The Ruins.

Personal life

He has his grandfather's initials tattooed on his wrist, as does his twin brother Aaron.

Shawn enjoys spending time with his brother, listening to music, playing guitar and snowboarding. He is also fluent in French. Shawn has one pet, Jessica, a golden retriever, that he got from his grandmother when he was nine.^{[citation needed]}

Shawn previously dated actress Michelle Trachtenberg.^[2]

Filmography

References

External links

• Shawn Ashmore at the Internet Movie Database