Shawn Ashmore

**Shawn Robert Ashmore** is a Canadian actor. He is known for his roles as Bobby "Iceman" Drake in the *X-Men* movie series (since 2000) and Jack Joyce in the video game *Quantum Break* (2016).

He voiced and motion captured the role of and was the face model for Conrad, a protagonist in *The Dark Pictures Anthology*'s first installment, *Man of Medan*.

## 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 Earnscliffe Senior Public School and Turner Fenton Secondary School.

He has a twin brother, Aaron Ashmore, who is also an actor and sometimes confused with him. Shawn and Aaron 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. They have a "GMA" tattoo on their wrists that stands for "Good Man Ashmore"; their grandfather had a similar tattoo.

## Career

### Film & Television

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 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*.

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

### Video games

In 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. He also did the motion capture and voice acting for the character.

Ashmore would later be one of the five protagonists of the first installment of the horror anthology known as *The Dark Pictures Anthology* by Supermassive Games, *Man of Medan*. The story focused on the legend of the SS Ourang Medan. He (as Conrad) shared scene with other Canadian actors such as Ayisha Issa (Fliss), Arielle Palik (Julia), Kareem Alleyne (Alex), and Chris Sandiford (Brad, who is notably Ashmore's favorite character).

## Filmography

### Video games

 2016
 2019