Ashmore landed the lead part in the SciFi Channel miniseries Legend of Earthsea, based on Ursula K. Le Guin’s novels, in December 2004. He played Ged, a young wizard-in-training who seeks advice from a Magus (Danny Glover) and develops romantic emotions for Tenar (Kristin Kreuk), the protege of Isabella Rossellini’s High Priestess of the Tombs of Atuan.
Ashmore appeared in a CTV TV movie on Terry Fox’s unprecedented trek across Canada in 2005, which aired in September of that year. In the 2008 horror thriller The Ruins, he played one of the main characters. In Adam Green’s 2010 drama thriller Frozen, Ashmore played Joe Lynch.
Along with Dominic Monaghan, Michael Eklund, Shannyn Sossamon, and Ashley Bell, Ashmore appeared in the apocalyptic siege warfare thriller The Day. He also played a significant role in Kevin Bacon’s television drama series The Following. In the 2014 film X-Men: Days of Future Past, Ashmore reprised his role as Iceman.
Ashmore appeared in Quantum Break, a single-player third-person shooter video game created by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Studios, in April 2016. He played the main character, Jack Joyce, as well as doing motion capture and voice acting.
From October 2016 to January 2017, he played Sam Spencer in the American legal drama Conviction, which was shot in Toronto.
Were there both Ashmores in Smallville?
What role did Shawn Ashmore play in Smallville? Shawn Ashmore played the antagonist in two cameos on “Smallville” as Clark Kent’s foe. Aaron Ashmore, Shawn’s identical twin brother, later played Jimmy Olson on “Smallville.”