Ashton Kutcher

Christopher Ashton Kutcher (Birth in February 7, 1978), best accepted as Ashton Kutcher, is an American actor, producer, above appearance archetypal and comedian, best accepted for his assuming of Michael Kelso in the Fox ball That '70s Show. He aswell created, produced and hosted Punk'd, and played advance roles in the Hollywood films Dude, Where's My Car?, Just Married, The Butterfly Effect, The Guardian, and What Happens in Vegas. He is aswell the ambassador and co-creator of the abnormal TV appearance Room 401 and the absoluteness TV appearance Beauty and the Geek. It was appear in May 2011 that Kutcher would alter Charlie Sheen in the hit CBS ball Two and a Half Men.

Early life

Kutcher was built-in in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Larry Kutcher, a branch worker, and Diane (née Finnegan), a Procter & Gamble employee. Kutcher was aloft in a bourgeois Roman Catholic family, with an earlier sister, Tausha, and a congenial twin, Michael, who had a affection displace if the brothers were adolescent children. Kutcher's accompanying brother aswell has Cerebral Palsy and is a agent for the advancement alignment Reaching for the Stars.

Kutcher abounding Washington Top Academy in Cedar Rapids for his apprentice year afore his ancestors confused to Homestead, Iowa, area he abounding Clear Creek Amana Top School. In a 2010 account on Late Night with David Letterman, Kutcher claimed to be an all-state linebacker who averaged 15 tackles per bold in top school. According to a above coach, however, Kutcher played sparingly as a advanced receiver on a aggregation that won alone two amateur in his absolute top academy football career. Kutcher aswell appeared in academy plays.

Kutcher's brother's cardiomyopathy acquired his home activity to become added stressful. He has declared that "I didn't wish to arise home and acquisition added bad account about my brother" and "kept myself so active that I didn't acquiesce myself to feel". Kutcher accepted that during adolescence, he advised committing suicide. At thirteen, he attempted to jump from a Cedar Rapids hospital balcony, with his ancestor amid in the incident. Kutcher's home activity worsened as his parents afar if he was sixteen. During his chief year, he bankrupt into his top academy at midnight with his accessory in an attack to abduct money; he was arrested abrogation the scene. Kutcher was bedevilled of catechize break-in and bedevilled to three years' acquittal and 180 hours of association service. Kutcher declared that although the acquaintance "straightened him out", he absent his adherent and advancing academy scholarships, and he was abandoned at academy and in his community.

Kutcher enrolled at the University of Iowa in August 1996, area his planned above was biochemical engineering, motivated by the admiration to acquisition a cure for his brother's affection ailment. At college, Kutcher was kicked out of his accommodation for getting too "noisy" and "wild".Kutcher stated, "I anticipation I knew aggregate but I didn't accept a clue. I was partying, and I woke up abounding mornings not alive what I had done the night before. I played way too hard. I am afraid I am not dead. To acquire money for his tuition, Kutcher formed as a academy summer appoint in the atom administration for the General Mills bulb in Cedar Rapids, and sometimes donated claret for money. During his time at UI he was approached by a advance at a bar alleged "The Airliner" in Iowa City and was recruited to access the "Fresh Faces of Iowa" clay competition. Afterwards agreement first, he alone out of academy and won a cruise to New York City to the International Clay and Talent Association (IMTA) Convention. Following his break in New York City, Kutcher alternate to Cedar Rapids afore relocating to Los Angeles to accompany a career in acting.

Career

Modeling career

After accommodating as a clay adversary in an IMTA antagonism (losing to Josh Duhamel) in 1998, Kutcher active with the Next clay bureau in New York, appeared in ads for Calvin Klein, modeled in Paris and Milan, and appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial.

Television and blur career

Kutcher with Two and a Half Men co-star, Jon Cryer in September 2011

After some success in modeling, Kutcher confused to Los Angeles and, afterwards his aboriginal audition, was casting as Michael Kelso in the television alternation That '70s Show, which debuted in 1998 and concluded in 2006. Kutcher was casting in a alternation of blur roles; although he auditioned but was not casting for the role of Danny Walker in Pearl Harbor (2001), (role went to Josh Hartnett),[13] he starred in several ball films, including Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), Just Affiliated (2003), and Guess Who (2005). He briefly appeared in the 2003 ancestors film, Cheaper By The Dozen, arena a self-obsessed actor. His 2004 blur The Butterfly Effect was an almighty affecting role for Kutcher, arena a conflicted adolescent man who fell in adulation with a babe alleged Kayleigh; the blur accustomed alloyed to abrogating reviews, but was a box-office success.

In 2003, Kutcher produced and starred in his own alternation on MTV's Punk'd as the host. The alternation complex assorted hidden camera tricks performed on celebrities. Kutcher is aswell an controlling ambassador of the absoluteness television shows Beauty and the Geek, Adventures in Hollyhood (based about the rap accumulation Three 6 Mafia), and The Real Marriage Crashers and the bold appearance Opportunity Knocks. Abounding of his assembly credits, including Punk'd, arise through Katalyst Films, a assembly aggregation he runs with accomplice Jason Goldberg.

Because of scheduling conflicts with the filming of The Guardian, Ashton was affected not to renew his arrangement for the eighth and final division of That 70s Show, although he did arise in the aboriginal four episodes of it (credited as a appropriate bedfellow star) and alternate for the alternation finale.

Kutcher produced and starred in the 2010 activity comedy, Killers, in which he played a hitman.

In May 2011, Kutcher was appear as Charlie Sheen's backup on Two and a Half Men. Kutcher's arrangement is for one year and is believed to be account about $20 million.His admission as the appearance Walden Schmidt, advantaged "Nice to Meet You, Walden Schmidt", was apparent by 28.7 actor humans on 19 September, 2011. The Nielsen ratings aggregation appear that amount was added than any added adventure in the show's aboriginal eight seasons, if Sheen starred in it.

Other work

Kutcher was allotment of the administration aggregation for Ooma, a tech start-up launched in September 2007. Ooma is in the Voice over Internet Protocol business and Ashton's role was as Artistic Director. He was spearheading a business attack and bearing viral videos to advance this service. Kutcher has aswell created an alternate arm of Katalyst alleged Katalyst Media with his accomplice from Katalyst Films, Jason Goldberg. Their aboriginal website is the activated animation Blah Girls. Ooma revamped its sales and business action with a new administration aggregation in the summer of 2008, replacing Ashton Kutcher as their artistic director. Rich Buchanan, from Sling Media, became Ooma's Chief Business Officer.

He currently advertises for Nikon cameras. In July 2011, Brazilian appearance characterization Colcci assassin Kutcher and Alessandra Ambrosio to affection in a mild denim advertisement.

Personal life

Kutcher and Moore, September 2008

In 2003, Kutcher began dating extra Demi Moore. Moore and Kutcher affiliated on September 24, 2005, in a clandestine commemoration conducted by a Rabbi of the Kabbalah Center; the marriage was abounding by about 150 abutting accompany and ancestors of the couple, including Bruce Willis, Moore's ex-husband. In October 2010, Kutcher and Moore met with co-director of the Kabbalah Center Rabbi Yehuda Berg in Israel.

Kutcher has invested in an Italian restaurant, Dolce (other owners cover Danny Masterson and Wilmer Valderrama) and a Japanese-themed restaurant alleged Geisha House amid in Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York.

Kutcher is a self-described budgetary bourgeois and amusing liberal. He is a apprentice of Kabbalah; his co-star, Natalie Portman, declared in 2011 that Kutcher "has accomplished me added about Judaism than I anticipate I accept anytime abstruse from anyone else".

On September 17, 2008, Kutcher was alleged the abettor drillmaster for the apprentice football aggregation at Harvard-Westlake Academy in Los Angeles. However, he was clumsy to acknowledgment in 2009 because he was filming Spread.