Shawn Ashmore
Shawn Ashmore | |
|---|---|
Ashmore in 2014 | |
| Born | Shawn Robert Ashmore October 7, 1979 Richmond, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Spouse |
Dana Renee Wasdin (m. 2012) |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Aaron Ashmore (twin brother) |
Shawn Robert Ashmore (born October 7, 1979) is a Canadian actor known for roles in film, television, and interactive media.
As a child actor he first appeared as Jake Berenson on Nickelodeon's Animorphs (1998–1999), Tyler Connell in Disney Channel's In a Heartbeat (2000–2001), and Brad Rigby in the Disney Channel film Cadet Kelly (2002). At age 14, his performance in the family telefilm Guitarman (1994) earned Ashmore a Gemini nomination for Best Performance in a Children's Program.
Ashmore gained international recognition as Bobby Drake / Iceman in the 20th Century Fox X-Men films (2000–2014), winning the 2003 MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Male Performance for X2. His later work includes portraying Canadian hero Terry Fox in Terry (2005) and headlining the horror films The Ruins (2008) and Frozen (2010).
On television, he starred as FBI agent Mike Weston in The Following (2013–2015) and has played attorney Wesley Evers on The Rookie since 2018. He leads several performance-capture video games, notably Quantum Break (2016), The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan (2019) and Alan Wake II (2023).
Ashmore won a 2004 Leo Award for Legend of Earthsea and has received further Gemini and Saturn Award nominations. He is the identical twin of actor Aaron Ashmore.
Early life and education
Shawn Robert Ashmore was born on October 7, 1979, in Richmond, British Columbia, to Linda Davis, a homemaker, and Rick Ashmore, a senior manager in the floor-covering industry.[1][2] When he was a few weeks old, the family moved to St. Albert, Alberta, where he spent much of his early childhood. They later settled in Brampton, Ontario, when Ashmore was around ten years old, where he went on to attend Turner Fenton Secondary School.[3][4]
Shawn and his identical twin brother, Aaron Ashmore, began appearing in television commercials while still in elementary school. Ashmore stated that he and Aaron entered acting when a talent agent approached their mother about the twins auditioning for a commercial. Aaron was initially cast, but when he fell ill on the shoot day, Shawn filled in for him–effectively landing his first acting job.[5] Early in their careers, casting directors occasionally resolved the dilemma of choosing between the look-alike brothers by "flipping a coin" to decide which twin would be hired.[6]
Career
Early work and breakthrough (1990s–2004)
At age nine, Shawn made his screen debut on the CTV series Katts and Dog (1990).[7] The following year both brothers had small roles in the feature film Married to It (1991).[8] His first starring vehicle was the family TV film Guitarman (1994), which earned the 14-year-old Ashmore a Gemini Award nomination for Best Performance in a Children's/Youth Program.[9] He ultimately decided in his late teens to pursue acting as a full-time career, after realizing he was never happier than when working on set.[5]
Ashmore’s first sustained television role was playing Jake Berenson in Animorphs (1998–1999), a Nickelodeon series based on the popular children's sci-fi books by K. A. Applegate. Reflecting on the series in 2022, he said its enduring popularity "is so crazy to me" and noted that he is "always amazed" when fans still recognise him from the show.[10] He next headlined the Disney Channel series In a Heartbeat (2000–2001) as EMT cadet Tyler Connell, then starred as cadet major Brad Rigby in the Original Movie Cadet Kelly (2002).[11] He later summarised that stretch as "a real Nickelodeon/Disney moment" in his late teens and early twenties.[10]
Ashmore debuted as Bobby Drake / Iceman in X-Men (2000), appearing alongside Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, and Anna Paquin. The film was a box office success, grossing $296.3 million worldwide[12] and launching a long-running franchise in which Ashmore would reprise his role in multiple sequels. He also guest-starred as Eric Summers in two episodes of Smallville (2002, 2004), a series on which his brother was later cast in the role of Jimmy Olsen.[13] He returned as Iceman with an expanded storyline in X2 (2003), earning the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Male Performance in 2004.[14] During the lead-up to the film's release, Ashmore reflected on the growing public attention, saying his family "were a little freaked out when they started realizing that my face was going to be on buses and at movie theatres."[15]
In December 2004, Ashmore starred as the young wizard Ged in the Syfy miniseries Legend of Earthsea, adapted from Ursula K. Le Guin's novels.[16] Although the production drew mixed notices, Tom Shales of The Washington Post wrote that "Ashmore makes a likable and modest hero,"[17] and his performance earned him the 2005 Leo Award for Best Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama.[18]
Film and television (2005–2015)
In 2005, he portrayed Canadian icon Terry Fox in the CTV biographical film Terry (2005), dramatizing the Marathon of Hope. Discussing the role, Ashmore admitted that "the roughest part is the physicality, learning the skip-hop to make it real, and remembering and knowing the movement".[19] His performance earned him a Gemini Award nomination for Best Actor.[20] Alongside that, he balanced three very different feature films. He played Rob Donovan, a prep school student coerced into a stolen-car ring in the action comedy Underclassman.[21] That same autumn, he headlined one of the three intersecting stories in the HIV/AIDs drama 3 Needles, anchoring the Canadian chapter depicting the ripple effects of a hidden HIV diagnosis.[5] He closed 2005 with psychological thriller The Quiet, portraying basketball player Connor Kennedy who befriends social outcast Dot.[22]
In May 2006, he reprised his role as Iceman in X-Men: The Last Stand, the third installment in 20th Century Fox's X-Men film series.[23] Ashmore also reprised the role in the tie-in video game X-Men: The Official Game, which bridges the events between the film and X2.[24] In 2008, he starred in the horror film The Ruins[25] as Eric, an American tourist in Mexico enticed by the opportunity to visit a remote Mayan ruin in the jungle. In 2009, he starred in the CTV telefilm Diverted (2009), playing an air‑traffic manager coping with flights grounded in Newfoundland during the September 11 attacks.[26] During that same year, he returned to voice Iceman in several episodes of the animated series The Super Hero Squad Show.[27]
Ashmore's work in 2010 included playing Joe Lynch in Adam Green's dramatic thriller Frozen[28] and co‑starring as George Barnum in the ensemble horror remake Mother's Day.[29] Subsquently, Ashmore served as an executive producer and starred as hard-living air-ambulance doctor Fitz in the eight-part HBO Canada miniseries Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, adapted from Vincent Lam's Giller Prize–winning stories. The show went on to receive nine Gemini nominations.[30][31] That November, he and his twin brother Aaron guest-starred in the Fringe episode "Amber 31422". Den of Geek praised the pair as "rather good actors."[32] It was the first project the brothers had worked on together in fifteen years. Shawn said in an interview that "it's usually because the stuff that came along is kind of hokey, but I think the quality of Fringe is really high and the episode is done well and our characters are intelligent. We're going to have some fun."[33]
In 2011, Ashmore played Adam, one of five survivors besieged by cannibals, in the post-apocalyptic thriller The Day. The film premiered in the Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness programme and was later picked up for U.S. distribution by WWE Studios.[34][35] He next head-lined the bilingual road-movie romance Mariachi Gringo (2012) as an aimless Kansan who relocates to Guadalajara to become a mariachi singer, which premiered as the opening-night gala of the 29th Miami International Film Festival.[36] From 2013 to 2015, Ashmore starred as FBI Special Agent Mike Weston on Fox's crime thriller series The Following. Weston, who works closely with Kevin Bacon's Ryan Hardy, remained part of the core ensemble throughout the show's three-season run.[37] In 2014, Ashmore reprised his role as Iceman in X-Men: Days of Future Past, appearing in the film's dystopian future timeline alongside returning cast members Anna Paquin and Elliot Page. He praised the decision to unite the original and prequel casts into one film, calling it "a very interesting and smart way to continue telling this story."[38]
Continued screen work and video game debut (2016–2020)
In 2016, Ashmore moved into interactive media as the lead of Microsoft and Remedy Entertainment's action-adventure game Quantum Break. Using full-body performance capture and voice work, he portrayed time-manipulating protagonist Jack Joyce in both the gameplay sequences and live-action companion episodes.[39][40] Upon release, Quantum Break became Microsoft Studios' biggest-selling new Xbox One IP and the platform's most-played new title in its first week.[41] Game Informer noted that Ashmore gives Jack Joyce "the scope and complexity to be interesting for such long periods of time," praising his natural banter and effective escalation of tension in the action sequences.[42] That year, he also returned to network television as assistant district attorney Sam Spencer in the American legal drama Conviction.[43]
Ashmore followed with a run of genre features, headlining the sci-fi horror Devil's Gate as Deputy Conrad "Colt" Salter, which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival,[44] and as troubled brother Officer Darryl Tarasoff in the Canadian mystery Hollow in the Land (2017).[45] In 2018, he starred in the action thriller Acts of Violence as a Cleveland police officer pursuing a human‑trafficking ring,[46] and began a recurring role on the police-procedural series The Rookie as defence attorney Wesley Evers, which expanded to a series regular role in Season 3.[47] In 2019, he appeared in Hulu's anthology series Into the Dark, playing migrant‑rights activist Thomas in the Independence Day episode "Culture Shock".[48] That same year he continued working in interactive media, providing voice, likeness, and motion capture as the playable character Conrad in the horror game The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan (2019).[49]
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.[50] Reflecting on the role, Ashmore noted the contrast with his earlier portrayal of Bobby Drake / Iceman, calling the latter "the quintessential good guy" and stating that his casting as Lamplighter "wasn't a coincidence". He added, "One of the things I liked about The Boys is that they subvert the genre, and I really got to lean into that."[51] Showrunner Eric Kripke revealed that Ashmore first auditioned for another part, but he "really wanted to get him into the show" and felt Ashmore was "perfect" for Lamplighter due to his "X-Men pedigree" and strong acting. Ashmore himself enjoyed the irony, saying it was fun to play "both sides of a superhero".[52]
Television main cast and expanded game work (2021–present)
In 2021, Ashmore appeared in two thriller features: he played Kevin Dadich in the Netflix release Aftermath[53] and also starred as Nick Miller, an increasingly controlling husband, in the psychological‑horror film The Free Fall, which premiered at Grimmfest on October 7.[54] That same year, Ashmore's recurring role as Wesley Evers, a defence attorney who becomes an assistant district attorney, on ABC's The Rookie was upgraded to the main cast at the start of the third season. He has remained a series regular through the eighth season.[47][55] Ashmore later reprised the role in the spin‑off The Rookie: Feds episode "Standoff" (2022).[56]
In 2023, Ashmore voiced and performed motion capture for Sheriff Tim Breaker in Remedy Entertainment's survival-horror video game Alan Wake II,[57] and in the Night Springs DLC he portrays an alternate-reality version of himself filming a time-travel game scene, a sequence one review described as "a real fourth wall break" rife with in-jokes referencing Ashmore's past role in Quantum Break.[58] Remedy's Sam Lake noted that this character was written specifically for Ashmore as a nod to their previous collaboration.[59]
Ashmore continued his game work by voicing Timmy LeBlanc in Sons of the Forest. GamesRadar+ noted that Ashmore had joined the cast as side character Timmy LeBlanc and that the February 2024 update would expand Timmy's role in the story.[60] In 2025, Ashmore starred as Randall Harris in the supernatural-horror film It Feeds, directed by Chad Archibald.[61]
Ashmore is set to star in The Huntsman, a psychological thriller directed by Kyle Kauwika Harris. Based on Judith Sanders's novel, Ashmore will play a repressed ICU nurse who volunteers to read to a coma patient suspected of serial murders.[62] He will also co-star in Just Breathe, a crime thriller marking the feature debut of director Paul Pompa III. The film was in post-production as of late 2024[63] and in June 2025, Shout! Studios acquired the North American distribution rights.[64]
Personal life
On July 27, 2012, Ashmore married Dana Renee Wasdin in Los Angeles after meeting her on the set of the thriller Frozen where Wasdin was an assistant director.[65] They have one son together, Oliver, born in 2017.[66][67]
Ashmore and his twin brother Aaron have matching "GMA" tattoos on their wrists. According to Aaron, the initials stand for "Good Man Ashmore," in tribute to their step-grandfather, Gangu Jagtiani, who married their grandmother before the twins were born and was considered their grandfather.[68] Ashmore has also supported breast‑cancer causes. In October 2021, he joined a virtual meet‑and‑greet auction run by the nonprofit A Cause for Entertainment, with proceeds funding research and patient support.[69]
Filmography
| † | Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released |
Film
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| Hatchet II | Fisherman #1 | ||
| 2011 | The Day | Adam | |
| 2012 | Mariachi Gringo | Edward | |
| Already Gone (short) | Jude Mulvey | [70] | |
| The Barrens | Dale | ||
| Breaking the Girls | Eric | ||
| 2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Bobby Drake / Iceman | |
| Happy Halloween (short) | David | [71] | |
| 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 | |
| The Free Fall | Nick Miller | ||
| 2025 | It Feeds | Randall Harris | |
| The Huntsman † | ICU nurse (lead) | Post-production[72] | |
| TBA | Just Breathe † | Chester | Post-production[73] |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Katts and Dog | Episode: "Mistaken Identity" | |
| 1992 | The Ray Bradbury Theater | Charlie | Episode: "Colonel Stonesteel and the Desperate Empties" |
| 1992–1993 | Mr. Dressup | Shawn | 4 episodes[74] |
| 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 | 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
| 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 |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Gemini Awards | Best Performance in a Children's/Youth Program | Guitarman | Nominated | [9] |
| 2003 | MTV Movie & TV Awards | Best Breakthrough Male Performance | X2 | Won | [75] |
| 2004 | Leo Awards | Best Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama | Legend of Earthsea | Won | [18] |
| Saturn Awards | Cinescape Genre Face of the Future (Male) | X2 | Nominated | [75] | |
| Teen Choice Awards | Choice Movie – Chemistry (with Anna Paquin) | X2 | Nominated | [75] | |
| 2005 | Gemini Awards | Best Actor in a Dramatic Program or Mini‑Series | Terry | Nominated | [20] |
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The rest of the post reveals that ... Shawn Ashmore has joined the cast, voicing side character Timmy LeBlanc, as well as expanding Timmy's role in Sons of the Forest.
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Episode cards dated March 19, 1992 ("Bird Watching"), January 13, 1993 ("Tricky Chester"), March 3, 1993 ("The Twins Visit"), and December 11, 1993 ("A Yard Sale").
- ^ a b c "MTV Movie Awards 2004 – Winners" (Press release). MTV Press. June 5, 2004. Retrieved May 3, 2025.
External links
- Media related to Shawn Ashmore at Wikimedia Commons
- Shawn Ashmore at IMDb