Aaron Ashmore

Ashmore was born in Richmond, British Columbia, to Linda, a homemaker, and Rick Ashmore, a manufacturing manager. His identical twin brother, Shawn Ashmore, is also an actor. Aaron and Shawn have played twins in several movies, but have also pursued roles independently. Aaron is slightly taller than Shawn in addition to being more muscular and, according to Aaron, Shawn often gets cast as the nice guy while Aaron himself is cast as the bully. He also attended Turner Fenton Secondary School along with his brother.

Career

Aaron Ashmore was best known for playing Marc Hall in the 2004 Canadian TV movie Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story. Since then, he has appeared in the films Safe, A Separate Peace, and A Bear Named Winnie. He has also had guest roles on the television shows The Eleventh Hour, The West Wing, and 1-800-Missing. Ashmore has more recently played the recurring role of Troy Vandegraff on the The CW Television Network television series Veronica Mars.

He was cast as Jimmy Olsen for the sixth season of Smallville on the CW and continues to play him into its now eighth season.[1] Coincidentally, his friend Sam Huntington played Olsen in Superman Returns and the two have both appeared in Veronica Mars.[2] Ashmore's twin brother appeared on Smallville in earlier seasons. Besides his recurring role on Smallville, Ashmore has roles in the upcoming 2007 films Palo Alto[2], Privileged, The Stone Angel and The Christmas Cottage.[3] Aaron is currently filming Deep Cove, a horror film also starring Haylie Duff in Vancouver.[4]

[edit] Personal life

Both he and his brother have a "GMA" tattoo on their wrists that stands for "Good Man Ashmore". Their grandfather had a similar tattoo. He is 6 feet tall. [5]

[edit] Filmography
Year Title Role
1991 Married to It Student in Pageant
1993 Gross Misconduct Young Byron Spencer
Are You Afraid of the Dark? Billy
1996 Due South Teenager
1999 Animorphs Ax Double
Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly Luke Lawson
Love Letters Bob Bartram
2000 Run the Wild Fields Charlie Upshall
The Famous Jett Jackson Robert
Are You Afraid of the Dark? Jake
La Femme Nikita Neil Hudson
Twice in a Lifetime Paul
2001 Blackout Second Son
The Familiar Stranger Chris Welsh
The Safety of Objects Bobby Christianson
Dying to Dance Jason
Treed Murray Dwayne
2002 The Skulls II Matt 'Hutch' Hutchinson
Emily of New Moon Harrison Bowles
Charms for the Easy Life Ted
Conviction Whiff
A Christmas Visitor John Boyajian
The Eleventh Hour Taz Thomas
2003 The Pentagon Papers Randy Kehler
2004 My Brother's Keeper Eric/Lou Woods
Brave New Girl Tyler
Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story Marc Hall
Safe Bobby
A Separate Peace Chad
A Bear Named Winnie Corporal Randy Taylor
2005 The Eleventh Hour Trevor Gordon
The West Wing Trevor
2005 – 2006 1-800-Missing Colin McNeil
2004 – 2006 Veronica Mars Troy Vandegraff
2006 – Present Smallville Jimmy Olsen
2007 Palo Alto Alec
The Stone Angel Matt
2008 Privileged Blake Webber
Thomas Kinkade's Home for Christmas Pat Kinkade
Deep Cove Mark
2010 The Thaw