{"id":18521,"date":"2026-08-28T22:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=18521"},"modified":"2026-08-28T22:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:50:40","slug":"fans-thought-these-two-actors-were-the-same-person-for-years-%f0%9f%98%b3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=18521","title":{"rendered":"Fans Thought These Two Actors Were the Same Person for Years \ud83d\ude33"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years, many fans believed the actor who played <strong>Jimmy Olsen in<\/strong> <em><strong>Smallville<\/strong><\/em> was the same actor who played <strong>Iceman in the<\/strong> <em><strong>X-Men<\/strong><\/em> movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But they were actually watching <strong>identical twins Aaron and Shawn Ashmore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in Canada in 1979, the brothers both began acting at a young age and eventually built successful careers of their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shawn became famous as Iceman in <em>X-Men<\/em>, while Aaron played Jimmy Olsen in <em>Smallville<\/em>. Both also appeared in other popular TV shows, including <em>The Rookie<\/em>, <em>The Following<\/em>, <em>Warehouse 13<\/em>, and <em>Killjoys<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their careers followed such similar paths that fans continued confusing them\u2014even recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Aaron appeared in <em>Ginny &amp; Georgia<\/em>, some viewers who knew Shawn from <em>The Rookie<\/em> were shocked to discover they were actually two different people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The funniest part? Even fans who already knew the brothers were twins admitted they sometimes still couldn&#8217;t tell which one they were watching. \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Two actors. One face. And decades of confused fans.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, many fans believed the actor who played Jimmy Olsen in Smallville was the same actor who played Iceman in the X-Men movies. But they were actually watching identical twins Aaron and Shawn Ashmore. Born in Canada in 1979, the brothers both began acting at a young age and eventually built successful careers of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18523,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18521\/revisions\/18523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}