Shawn Ashmore: I really think Aaron is an amazing actor and my best friend as well, so to get to work together would be amazing.
Shawn Ashmore is a presenter for the 21st Annual Gemini Awards airing November 4.
Shawn Ashmore won a Leo Award for "Best Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama" for his work on "Earthsea". It was in 2005
Shawn Ashmore has been nominated for a gemini award for his portrayal of Terry Fox in the Canadian made-for-television movie "Terry." The last time he was nominated was for "Guitarman" in 1994.
Shawn played Canadian legend Terry Fox in the movie Terry.
Shawn Ashmore was nominated for an ACTRA award for his performance in "Terry."
Shawn: My roommates are comic fans too, so I always pick up whatever they have lying around.
Shawn: Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.
Shawn: It was a completely different shooting schedule than X2. That was six months doing a two-hour movie.
Shawn: It doesn't get more iconic than Terry Fox.
Shawn: I've always been into sci-fi and fantasy stuff, but I wasn't aware of Earthsea or Le Guin's work.
Shawn: I'm a video game buff.
Shawn: I'd take telekinesis. I could move things with my mind, and with telepathy I could control other people's minds and make them do whatever I wanted.
Shawn: I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.
Shawn: I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.
Shawn: I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over.
Shawn: I really liked Ged's dark side. He's a young man who is strongheaded, growing up in the middle of nowhere and feels destined for something else.
Shawn: I play Bobby Drake, a.k.a. Iceman. The way I see Bobby is that he's basically a normal kid who's grown up with this mutant ability.
Shawn: I loved working with our director, Rob Lieberman, and our producer, Robert Halmi Sr.
Shawn: I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just love the scene at the end between David Carradine and Uma Thurman.
Shawn: I haven't read anything for a while, but I always flip through X-Men to keep up to date. Spider-Man, also.
Shawn: Getting to play superheroes is a pretty good job.
Shawn: Everyone definitely has a different technique: Hugh can turn it on and off. He's like, Hugh Jackman fun and games, and then all of the sudden, he snaps into Wolverine.
Shawn: Don't get me wrong; everybody has been completely welcoming, but at the end of the day, read-throughs are my least favorite part about starting a new project.
Shawn: Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.
Shawn: Also, I did a film called Dot with Edie Falco and Elisha Cuthbert. I play a character named Connor who is a typical high school jock that has a relationship with this deaf girl named Dot.
Shawn Ashmore's newest project involves him producing and acting (playing the title character) in the made-for-television CTV movie Terry Fox. It tells the story of one-legged runner Terry attempting to fulfill his dream of running across Canada to raise money for the cancer society. Unfortunately, he dies at Thunder Bay, Ontario which is the half way point of Canada. Yet, his memories will live on in the hearts of Canadians.
Shawn Ashmore plays Rob Donovan, a high school basketball player who gets forced into a stolen car ring in the 2005 release of The Underclassman, a movie currently being filmed.
Shawn is currently dating actress Michelle Trachtenberg, who is 6 years younger than him.
Shawn reunited with Eugene Lipinski after 4 years for the hit television series Animorphs.
In 1994, Shawn Ashmore won a Gemini Award for best actor on the made-for-television movie Guitarman.
Shawn landed a role as his brother's twin in the movie My Brother's Keeper due to come out in Spring of 2004. This is the first time the Ashmore twins have worked together since their work on Animorphs at the age of 18.
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