Aaron Ashmore

Aaron Robert Ashmore (born October 7, 1979)^[1] is a Canadian film and television actor, best known as Jimmy Olsen in Smallville. He is the twin brother of actor Shawn Ashmore.

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 WB Television Network television series Veronica Mars.

He was cast as Jimmy Olsen for the sixth season of Smallville on the WB and continued to play him into its eighth season.^[2] Coincidentally, his friend Sam Huntington played Olsen inSuperman Returns and the two have both appeared in Veronica Mars.^[3] Ashmore's twin brother appeared on Smallville in earlier seasons. Besides his recurring role on Smallville, Ashmore had roles in the 2007 films Palo Alto,^[3] Privileged, The Stone Angel and The Christmas Cottage.^[4]Aaron is currently filming Fear Island, a horror film also starring Haylie Duff in Vancouver.^[5]

MTV.ca announced on October 6, 2010, that he will have a role in Maple Pictures new restaurant comedy Servitude alongside Joe Dinicol, Lauren Collins, Linda Kash and John Bregar.^[6]Servitude is to start filming in November.

Personal life

Both he and his brother were born in Richmond, British Columbia,^[1] and raised in Brampton, Ontario, where he attended Turner Fenton Secondary School. They have a "GMA" tattoo on their wrists that stands for "Good Man Ashmore". Their grandfather had a similar tattoo.^[7]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1991	Married to It	Student in Pageant
1993	Gross Misconduct	Young Byron Spencer	TV film
	Are You Afraid of the Dark?	Billy	TV series The Tale of the Thirteenth Floor
1996	Due South	Teenager	TV series Juliet is Bleeding
1999	Animorphs	Ax double	TV series
	Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly	Luke Lawson	TV film
	Love Letters	Bob Bartram	TV film
2000	Run the Wild Fields	Charlie Upshall	TV film
	The Famous Jett Jackson	Robert	TV series Something to Prove
	Are You Afraid of the Dark?	Jake	TV series The Tale of the Lunar Locusts Second appearance
	La Femme Nikita	Neil Hudson	TV series Time to Be Heroes
	Twice in a Lifetime	Paul	TV series Grandma's Shoes
2001	Blackout	Second Son	TV film
	The Familiar Stranger	Chris Welsh	TV film
	The Safety of Objects	Bobby Christianson	Independent film
	Dying to Dance	Jason	TV film
	Treed Murray	Dwayne
	Blue Murder		TV series Baby Point
2002	The Skulls II	Matt "Hutch" Hutchinson
	Emily of New Moon	Harrison Bowles	TV series A Fall from Grace
	Charms for the Easy Life	Ted	TV film
	Conviction	Whiff	TV film
	A Christmas Visitor	John Boyajian	TV film
	The Eleventh Hour	Taz Thomas	TV series Tree Hugger
2003	The Pentagon Papers	Randy Kehler	TV film
2004	My Brother's Keeper	Eric/Lou Woods
	Brave New Girl	Tyler	TV film
	Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story	Marc Hall	TV film
	Safe	Bobby
	A Separate Peace	Chad	TV film
	A Bear Named Winnie	Corporal Randy Taylor	TV film
2005	The Eleventh Hour	Trevor Gordon	TV series Kettle Black Second appearance
	The West Wing	Trevor	TV series Two episodes
2005–2006	1-800-Missing	Colin McNeil	TV series Fifteen episodes
2004–2006	Veronica Mars	Troy Vandegraff	TV series Five episodes
2007	Palo Alto	Alec	Independent film
	The Stone Angel	Matt
2008	Thomas Kinkade's Home for Christmas	Pat Kinkade	Direct-to-video film
	Fear Island	Mark
2006–2009	Smallville	Jimmy Olsen	TV series Fifty-two episodes
2009	The Thaw	Atom
2010	The Shrine	Marcus
	In Plain Sight		TV series Son of Mann
	Fringe	Matthew Rose	TV series "Amber 31422" (episode 3.5)
2011	Servitude	Chad

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