Bloodletting

FITZ

 

Fitz is a romantic at heart, which has doomed and also saved him from his self-destructive tendencies throughout his life.  His constant string of love affairs, with both women and alcohol, has replaced his two true loves, his ex-girlfriend Ming and medicine. To complicate matters, not only is Ming now married to his friend and colleague Chen, but she desperately wants to have a baby and has enlisted Fitz to be the sperm donor. After his drinking and disruptiveness get him fired from Mercy Hospital, Fitz takes a job as an air ambulance doctor with a company flying sick and injured travellers home from their misadventures. In the process, he has more than a few of his own.

 

SHAWN ASHMORE

 

Shawn Ashmore, best known for the X-Men trilogy, is currently filming the remake of the 1980’s horror film Mother’s Day alongside Rebecca De Mornay in Winnipeg, Alberta.  Ashmore recently finished filming Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, an eight-part mini-series based on the award winning novel by Vincent Lam, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, shooting in Canada and produced by Shaftesbury Films. Shawn stars as ‘Fitz’ a troubled Air-Ambulance doctor with a lust for life and alcohol.

 

Shawn will next be seen starring in the upcoming motion picture Frozen, written and directed by Adam Green, set to come out in 2010. The film depicts the events of three skiers that are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.

 

This past year, Shawn appeared in the CBC TV movie, Diverted also produced by Shaftesbury Films. The film tells a fictional story inspired by what happened to the passengers aboard airplanes on September 11, 2001, when Federal Aviation Authority shut down the skies over the US. Shawn played the character of Mike Stiven, a young air traffic controller. In 2008, Shawn played the comedic role of Eric in DreamWorks’ sci-fi thriller The Ruins, which is based on Scott Smith’s 2005 novel and directed by Carter Smith.

 

Shawn’s career took off in 1994 when he was nominated for a Gemini Award for his work as Waylon Tibbins, the starring role in the TV movie Guitarman. When he was seventeen, he won the role of Jake on Nickelodeon’s series Animorphs working on it for two seasons and immediately following it with the starring role of Tyler Connell on Disney Channel’s In a Heartbeat. Two days after filming the pilot for the new series, director Bryan Singer chose Shawn to play Robert Bobby Drake/Iceman on 20th Century Fox’s feature film X-Men.

 

The film spawned a franchise and in 2004, Shawn received the MTV Movie Award Breakthrough Male for his role as Bobby Drake/Iceman in Fox’s blockbuster sequel X2: X-Men United directed again by Bryan Singer.  He starred opposite an ensemble cast that included Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry and Anna Paquin.  Shawn’s role was greatly expanded in this sequel, in which he and Anna Paquin (Rogue) become a couple with all the trials and tribulations their mutant powers cause.  Then, in 2006, Shawn reprised his role as Bobby Drake/Iceman in the third installment of the blockbuster franchise, X-Men: The Last Stand.

 

In 2005, Shawn starred in three projects. The first was Miramax Film’s Underclassman opposite Nick Cannon. After that, Shawn starred in 3 Needles alongside Stockard Channing, Lucy Liu, Sandra Oh, Chloe Sevigny and Olympia Dukakis. An indie feature for writer-director Thom Fitzgerald, the film is about the AIDS pandemic that plays out in China, South Africa and North America. He then played the title role of Terry in an original TV movie of the same name for CTV and produced by Shaftesbury Films.  Terry was based on the true story about how after Terry Fox lost his leg to cancer, he set out to run across Canada on the Marathon of Hope to raise money and awareness for cancer research.

 

Shawn also appeared in the leading role on Earthsea, a fantasy drama for the SCI FI Channel in the fall of 2004, starring alongside Isabella Rossellini, Danny Glover and Kristin Kruek. That same year he guest starred in the hugely popular WB series, Smallville in one of the most widely watched episodes that season.