1. Shawn Robert Ashmore was born on October 7,1979 and is a Canadian actor.
20 Facts About Shawn Ashmore
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Shawn Ashmore is the identical twin brother of actor Aaron Ashmore.
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Shawn Ashmore was born in Richmond, British Columbia, the son of Linda, a homemaker, and Rick Shawn Ashmore, a manufacturing engineer.
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Shawn Ashmore was raised in St Albert, Alberta and Brampton, Ontario, where he attended Earnscliffe Senior Public School and Turner Fenton Secondary School.
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Shawn Ashmore's identical twin brother, Aaron Ashmore, is an actor.
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Aaron and Shawn Ashmore have played twins in several movies, but have pursued roles independently.
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Aaron is slightly taller than Shawn Ashmore and, according to Aaron, Shawn Ashmore often gets cast as the nice guy while Aaron is cast as the bully.
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Shawn Ashmore 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.
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Shawn 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.
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Shawn Ashmore had starring roles on Animorphs as Jake and In a Heartbeat as Tyler Connell.
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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.
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Shawn Ashmore played the role of Ged, a young wizard-in-training, who takes advice from a Magus and falls in love with Tenar, the protege of the High Priestess of the Tombs of Atuan.
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In 2005, Shawn Ashmore starred in a CTV TV movie about Terry Fox's historic run across Canada, which aired in September of that year.
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Shawn Ashmore was cast in Adam Green's 2010 dramatic thriller Frozen as Joe Lynch.
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Shawn Ashmore starred in the apocalyptic siege warfare film The Day with Dominic Monaghan, Michael Eklund, Shannyn Sossamon, and Ashley Bell.
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Shawn Ashmore starred in the television drama series The Following, starring Kevin Bacon.
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Shawn Ashmore reprised his role as Iceman in the 2014 film X-Men: Days of Future Past.
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Shawn Ashmore did the motion capture and voice acting for the character.
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In 2020, Shawn 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.
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On July 27,2012, Shawn Ashmore married film executive Dana Renee Wasdin, whom he met while filming Frozen.