Ashmore was cast in Adam Green's 2010 dramatic thriller Frozen as Joe Lynch. In 2008, he starred as one of the leads in the 2008 horror film The Ruins. In 2005, Ashmore starred in a CTV TV movie about Terry Fox's historic run across Canada, which aired in September of that year. He played the role of Ged, a young wizard-in-training, who takes advice from a Magus ( Danny Glover) and falls in love with Tenar ( Kristin Kreuk), the protege of the High Priestess of the Tombs of Atuan ( Isabella Rossellini). In December 2004, Ashmore was cast in the lead role in the SciFi Channel mini series Legend of Earthsea, based on the novels by Ursula K.
Ashmore had starring roles on Animorphs as Jake Berenson and In a Heartbeat as Tyler Connell. Īshmore starred as Cadet Major Brad Rigby in Cadet Kelly, a Disney Channel original film which aired in 2002 and he guest-starred as Eric Summers in two episodes of Smallville, a series on which his brother was later cast in the role of Jimmy Olsen. Ashmore also reprised his role as Iceman in the animated series The Super Hero Squad Show, as well as voicing the role for X-Men: The Official Game. One of Ashmore's notable roles was as Iceman in X-Men and its sequels X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand.
