Shawn Ashmore

Shawn Robert Ashmore is a Canadian film and television actor, perhaps best known for his role as 'Mike Weston' alongside Kevin Bacon in the Fox Broadcasting Company television series, The Following, and as 'Iceman' in the X-Men films. He is the twin brother of actor Aaron Ashmore.

One of Ashmore's major 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 also guest-starred as 'Eric Summers' in two episodes of Smallville, a series on which his brother later got the role of 'Jimmy Olsen'. Ashmore also 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 miniseries 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.

In addition to his role on the television drama series The Following, which ran from 2013 to 2015, Ashmore has also starred in the ABC drama, Conviction, as 'Sam Spencer.'