Ashmore Group plc (LSE: ASHM) is a large British investment manager dedicated to the emerging markets. Established in 1992, the company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The Chairman is Michael Benson and the Chief Executive is Mark Coombs. It is headquartered in London.

Senior management[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site

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Coordinates: 50°57′35″N 2°07′31″W / 50.9598°N 2.12536°W / 50.9598; -2.12536

Ashmore
Ashmore
Ashmore pond
Ashmore  Ashmore shown within Dorset
Population	162 [1]
OS grid reference	ST912178
- London	116 miles (187 km)
Civil parish	Ashmore
District	North Dorset
Shire county	Dorset
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SALISBURY
Postcode district	SP5
Dialling code	01722
Police	Dorset
Fire	Dorset
Ambulance	South Western
EU Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	North Dorset
List of places: UK • England • Dorset

Ashmore is a small village in the North Dorset district of Dorset, England; situated 20 miles (32 km) south-west of Salisbury. The local travel links are located 7 miles (11 km) from the village to Tisbury railway station and 18 miles (29 km) to Bournemouth International Airport. The main road running through the village is North Road. The village has a population of 162 according to the 2001 Census.

It is situated on Cranborne Chase five miles (8 km) south east of Shaftesbury. The village consists of a church and 83 old stone cottages and farms, many with thatched roofs. The village is situated on chalk rock which is permeable and therefore dry, and the village is built around a clay-lined dew pond which provided water before pipes were installed. This pond or "mere" is what gave the village its original name of "Ashmere".^[2] At over 700 feet (210 m) above sea level the village is the highest in Dorset.

The village is situated on the Roman road from Bath to Badbury Rings, and the pond may have been significant in Roman times. It is probable that there was a settlement at Ashmore in Roman times, though the village name is Saxon and there is little Roman archaeology in the village.

References[link]

• Pitt-Rivers, Michael, 1968. Dorset. London: Faber & Faber.
• Taylor, Christopher, 1970. The Making of the Dorset Landscape. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

External links[link]

• Media related to Ashmore at Wikimedia Commons
• Census data
• The Dorset Page: Ashmore
• Ashmore in the Domesday Book

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Shawn Ashmore
Born	Shawn Robert Ashmore (1979-10-07) October 7, 1979 (age 32) Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1991 – present

Shawn Robert Ashmore (born October 7, 1979)^[1] is a Canadian film and television actor, perhaps best known for his role as Jake in the Animorphs television series and Iceman in the X-Men films. He is the twin brother of actor Aaron Ashmore.

Early life[link]

Ashmore was born in Richmond, British Columbia,^[1] the son of Linda, a homemaker, and Rick Ashmore, a manufacturing engineer. He was raised in Brampton, Ontario, where he attended Turner Fenton Secondary School, and Earnscliffe Senior Public School. His twin brother, Aaron 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 and, according to Aaron, Shawn often gets cast as the nice guy while Aaron himself is cast as the bully.^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

One of Ashmore's major roles was as Iceman in X-Men and its sequels X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand. While many of the minor characters were portrayed by different actors, Ashmore was kept for all the movies since his character was major in the first movie, unlike Shadowcat who had minor screen time in the first and second films^{[citation needed]}. Ashmore reprised his role as Iceman in the animated series The Super Hero Squad Show.

Ashmore starred as Cadet Major Brad Rigby in Cadet Kelly, a Disney Channel original film which aired in 2002 and he also guest-starred as Eric Summers in two episodes of Smallville, a series on which his brother later got the role of Jimmy Olsen. Ashmore also had starring roles on Animorphs as Jake Berenson and In a Heartbeat as Tyler Connell.

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. Le Guin. 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 2005, Ashmore starred in a CTV TV movie about Terry Fox's historic run across Canada, which aired in September of that year. In 2008, he starred as one of the leads in the 2008 horror film The Ruins. Ashmore was cast in Adam Green's 2010 dramatic thriller Frozen as Joe Lynch.

Ashmore will also star in an upcoming apocalyptic siege warfare film The Day with Dominic Monaghan and Michael Eklund.

Filmography[link]

Films[link]

Television[link]

Video games[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Shawn Ashmore at the Internet Movie Database

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Michael Eklund
Born	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Occupation	actor
Years active	2000—present

Michael Eklund is a Canadian actor, who has made numerous appearances in both television and film roles.

Biography[link]

Acting career[link]

Since 2006, Eklund has appeared as Vancouver Narcotics detective, Rene Dejardins, in CBC's drama, Intelligence.

In 2007 Eklund starred in the film Walk All Over Me, playing Aaron, a recently released ex-convict. The same year, he appeared as a creepy doorman in a scene with Al Pacino in the movie. "88 Minutes."

In 2008 Eklund starred in Supernatural in the episode Monster Movie, as Ed Brewer.

Eklund has also guest starred in Smallville twice (Season 1 as a janitor & Season 6 as a fight ring announcer).

In 2009 he had a small role in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

In 2010 he made a guest appearance on J.J. Abrams's Fringe in the third season episode "The Plateau" playing Milo, a savant capable of calculating all future possibilities based on patterns.

In 2010 he also played Larry in the comedy-western film Gunless with Paul Gross.

Also Eklund has appeared in the action movie Hunt to Kill, with Steve Austin in 2010.

In 2012 Eklund appeared as the title escapee in the Alcatraz episode "Kit Nelson."

Future Projects[link]

He and Michael Biehn is also set for the lead in Xavier Gens future thriller The Divide.

Eklund will also be part of an upcoming apocalyptic siege warfare film The Day with Dominic Monaghan and Shawn Ashmore.

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Michael Eklund

• Michael Eklund at the Internet Movie Database

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Aaron Ashmore
Ashmore at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival eTalk Star! Schmooze
Born	Aaron Robert Ashmore (1979-10-07) October 7, 1979 (age 32) Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1991–present

Aaron Robert Ashmore (born October 7, 1979)^[1] is a Canadian film and television actor, perhaps best known for his roles in American TV shows, as Jimmy Olsen in Smallville and as Steve Jinks in Warehouse 13. He is the twin brother of actor Shawn Ashmore.

Career[link]

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 television shows such as The Eleventh Hour, The West Wing, and 1-800-Missing. Ashmore played the recurring role of Troy Vandegraff on The WB television series Veronica Mars, and is currently playing the role of Agent Steve Jinks on the Syfy show Warehouse 13.

He was cast as Jimmy Olsen, first love interest of Chloe Sullivan, for the sixth season of Smallville on the WB television network and continued to play him into its eighth season.^[2] Two years after leaving the show, Ashmore returns to play his character's younger brother on the series finale. Coincidentally, his friend Sam Huntington played Olsen in Superman 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 comedy film Servitude, which stars Joe Dinicol, Lauren Collins, Linda Kash, and John Bregar.^[6] Servitude is to start filming in November.

Personal life[link]

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

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Aaron Ashmore at the Internet Movie Database