Shawn Ashmore was cast in the lead role of the SciFi Channel miniseries Legend of Earthsea, based on the novels of Ursula K. Le Guin, in December 2004. He played the role of Ged, a budding wizard who seeks advice from a Magus (Danny Glover) and falls in love with Tenar (Kristin Kreuk), a ward of the High Priestess of the Tombs of Atuan (Isabella Rossellini).
In 2005, Ashmore starred in a CTV TV movie that was broadcast in September of the same year and chronicled Terry Fox’s legendary journey across Canada. He also had an appearance in the 2008 horror movie The Ruins as one of the main characters. Ashmore played Joe Lynch in Adam Green’s suspenseful film Frozen 2010.
Alongside Dominic Monaghan, Michael Eklund, Shannyn Sossamon, Ashley Bell, and others, Ashmore appeared in the post-apocalyptic siege warfare movie The Day. He also played a significant part in the Kevin Bacon-starring drama television series The Following. In the 2014 movie X-Men: Days of Future Past, Ashmore played Iceman once more.
Ashmore had an appearance in the single-player, third-person shooter video game Quantum Break, which was created by Remedy Entertainment and released by Microsoft Studios in April 2016. He performed the voice acting and motion capture for the role of Jack Joyce, the main character.
He played Sam Spencer from October 2016 to January 2017 in the Toronto-filmed American judicial drama Conviction.
What movies did Shawn Ashmore play in?
Shawn Ashmore has starred in these movies:
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- Frozen
- Aftermath
- Cadet Kelly
- X2
- The Ruins
- X-Men
- X-Men: The Last Stand
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
- Underclassman
- Acts of Violence
- The Free Fall
- Breaking the Girls
- Devil’s Gate
- The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan
- Solstice
- The Day
- Mariachi Gringo
- Darkness Falls
- The Quiet
- Mother’s Day
- Hollow in the Land
- 3 Needles
- Wolf Girl
- Terry
- The Barrens
- Married to It
- All I Wanna Do
- Animorphs
- Diverted
- The Underclassman