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Aaron Ashmore Profile |
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Birth Date: October 7, 1979
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Birth Place: Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
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Birth Name: Aaron Robert Ashmore
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Height: 6'0"
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Biography |
Aaron Robert Ashmore (born October 7, 1979) is a Canadian
film and television actor.
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.
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 has been cast as Jimmy Olsen for the sixth season of
Smallville on the CW. Coincidentally, his friend Sam
Huntington played Olsen in Superman Returns and the two have
both appeared in Veronica Mars. Ashmore's twin brother
played a villain on Smallville in earlier seasons. Besides
his recurring role on Smallville, Ashmore has roles in the
upcoming 2007 films Palo Alto, Privileged, The Stone Angel
and The Christmas Cottage. Aaron has joined the cast of
Smallville as regular in season 7.
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. |
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Other Information |
Is twin brother to Shawn Ashmore.
Has his grandfather's initials tattooed on his wrist, as
does his twin brother Shawn.
He and his brother Shawn Ashmore have both played popular
comic book characters. Aaron played Jimmy Olsen on
Smallville (2006) (TV), while Shawn played Bobby "Iceman"
Drake in the X-Men films. |
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since November 27, 2007