Shawn Ashmore Biography

Shawn Robert Ashmore (born October 7, 1979) is a Canadian film and television actor. He is known for his roles as Jake in the television series Animorphs, Agent Mike Weston in the television drama series The Following, and Bobby Drake/Iceman in the X-Men film series. Ashmore also plays the main character, Jack Joyce, in the 2016 video game Quantum Break. On 3 October 2016, he debuted in his role of Sam Spencer in the new U.S. drama series on ABC, Conviction. Shawn is the identical twin brother of actor Aaron Ashmore.

Early life

Ashmore was born in Richmond, British Columbia, the son of Linda, a homemaker, and Rick Ashmore, a manufacturing engineer. He was raised in St. Albert, Alberta and Brampton, Ontario, where he attended Turner Fenton Secondary School, and Earnscliffe Senior Public School. His 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

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.

Ashmore starred as Cadet Major Brad Rigby in Cadet Kelly, 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. Ashmore 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 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). In 2005, Ashmore starred in a CTV TV movie about Terry Fox's historic run across Canada, which aired in September of that year. In 2008, he starred as one of the leads in the 2008 horror film The Ruins. Ashmore was cast in Adam Green's 2010 dramatic thriller Frozen as Joe Lynch.

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

Shawn recently appeared in Quantum Break, a third-person shooter video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Studios, that features a TV show as cut scenes where Shawn plays the main character, Jack Joyce.

Beginning 3rd October 2016, he began his role as Sam Spencer of New York City's newly created Conviction Integrity Unit on the new U.S. legal drama on ABC, Conviction. The pilot was actually filmed in Toronto, and the series shoots there as well.

Personal life

On July 27, 2012, Ashmore married film executive Dana Renee Wasdin, whom he met while filming Frozen. The couple welcomed their first child, a son, on July 18 2017

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Married to It	Student in Pageant
1998	'	Photographer	aka All I Wanna Do
2000	X-Men	Bobby Drake/Iceman
2002	Past Present	College Kid	Short film New York International Independent Film and Video Festival Award for Best Actor
2002	Cadet Kelly	Cadet Major 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 Nominated"?Saturn Award for Cinescape Genre Face of the Future (Male) Nominated"?Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Chemistry
2004	My Brother's Keeper	Twin Double (uncredited)
2005	Underclassman	Rob Donovan
2005	3 Needles	Denys, the Porn Actor
2005	'	Connor
2006	X-Men: The Last Stand	Bobby Drake / Iceman
2008	Solstice	Christian
2008	'	Eric
2010	Frozen	Joe Lynch
2010	Hatchet II	Fisherman #1 (uncredited)
2010	Mother's Day	George Barnum
2011	'	Adam
2012	Mariachi Gringo	Edward
2012	Already Gone	Jude Mulvey	Short film
2012	Breaking the Girl	Eric
2014	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Bobby Drake / Iceman
2016	Hollow in the Land		Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Katts and Dog		Episode: "Mistaken Identity"
1992	'	Charlie	Episode: "Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties"
1997	Flash Forward	Gord	Episode: "Mudpack"
1997	Promise the Moon	Leviatus Bennett	TV movie
1997	Melanie Darrow	David Abbott	TV movie
1997	Fast Track	Young Chandler	Episode: "Combustions"
1998-1999	Animorphs	Jake Berenson	Main role, 26 episodes
1999	Deep in the City	Tyler	Episode: "Departures"
1999	Real Kids, Real Adventures	Aaron Hall	Episode: "Mountain Lion"
1999	At the Mercy of a Stranger	Danny	TV movie
1999	Dear America: The Winter of Red Snow	Ben Valentine	TV short
2000	Earth: Final Conflict	Max	Episode: "Sanctuary"
2000	'	Chet	Episode: "What You Wish For"
2000-2001	In a Heartbeat	Tyler Connell	Main role, 21 episodes
2001	'	Trevor Brewster	TV movie
2001	Blackout	First Son	TV movie
2001	'	Morris Shottwell	Episode: "Lion's Den"
2001	Wolf Girl	Beau	TV movie
2002	Aces		TV movie
2002-2004	Smallville	Eric Summers	Episodes: "Leech", "Asylum"
2004	Earthsea	Ged	TV miniseries Leo Award for Best Lead Performance By a Male in a Feature Length Drama
2005	Terry	Terry Fox	TV movie 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 movie
2009-2010	'	Iceman	Voice role; episodes: "Mysterious Mayhem at Mutant High!", "The Ice Melt Cometh!"
2010	Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures	Fitz	TV miniseries
2010	Fringe	Joshua Rose	Episode: "Amber 31422"
2013-2015	'	Agent Mike Weston	Main role, 45 episodes
2016	Relationship Status	Ben	3 episodes
2016-2017	Conviction	Sam Spencer	Main role

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	X-Men: The Official Game	Bobby Drake / Iceman	Voice role
2016	Quantum Break	Jack Joyce	Voice, likeness and motion capture