Ashton Kutcher

At 46 years old, Ashton Kutcher has this physical status:

Christopher Ashton Kutcher (born February 7, 1978) is an American actor, director, and entrepreneur.

In the Fox sitcom That '70s Show (1998–2006), he began his acting career portraying Michael Kelso.

Where's My Car? He made his film debut in the romantic comedy Coming Soon (1999) and the comedy film Dude. (2000), the first time a box office was a hit.

Kutcher shifted into romantic comedies in 2003, appearing in Just Married and My Boss' Daughter, the same year.

He created and produced the television series Punk'd in 2003, as well as serving as host for the first eight of the first eight of the series's ten seasons.

Kutcher appeared in the lead role of the psychological film The Butterfly Effect in 2004. Kutcher appeared in further romantic comedies, including Guess Who (2005), A Lot Like Love (2005), What Happens in Vegas (2008), and No Strings Attached (2011).

On CBS' Two and a Half Men (2011–2015), he starred as Walden Schmidt.

In 2013, Kutcher portrayed Steve Jobs in the biographical film Jobs.

Colt Bennett has appeared in the Netflix series The Ranch since 2016. Kutcher is also a venture capitalist, with a focus on entertainment.

He is a co-founder of A-Grade Investments, a venture capital company.

Kutcher unveiled Sound Ventures, Kutcher's replacement for A-Grade Investments, which is managed by institutional funding at SXSW on March 14, 2015.

Kutcher has also invested in several high-tech startups.

Kutcher has invested in over 60 businesses, the most popular of which include Skype, Foursquare, Airbnb, Path, and Fab.com.

Kutcher has invested in five startups as of August 2017—Neighborly, Zenreach, Applied Mathematics, Kopari Beauty, and Lemonade—marking his foray into "insurtech" markets.

Early life

Kutcher was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Diane (née Finnegan), a Procter & Gamble employee, and Larry M. Kutcher, a factory employee. He has roots in Czech, German, and Irish origins.

Kutcher was raised in a "relatively conservative" Catholic family. Tausha has an older sister and a fraternal twin brother named Michael, who underwent a heart transplant when the brothers were young. Michael is also a spokesperson for Reaching for the Stars, which is also a cerebral palsy. Kutcher's home life became more challenging due to Michael's cardiomyopathy. "I was so occupied that I didn't allow myself to feel," he said.

Kutcher attended Washington High School in Cedar Rapids for his freshman year before his family moved to Homestead, Iowa, where he attended Clear Creek–Amana High School. He developed a passion for acting and appeared in school plays during high school. During his senior year, he burst into his high school at midnight with his cousin in an attempt to loot money; he was arrested and barred from the scene. Kutcher was found guilty of third degree robbery and sentenced to three years of probation and 180 hours of community service. Kutcher said that although the experience "straightened him out," he lost his girlfriend and aspired college scholarships, and was teased out at school and in his neighborhood.

Kutcher joined the University of Iowa in August 1996, where his planned major was biochemical engineering, motivated by the desire to fix his brother's heart ailment. Kutcher was refused admission to his apartment because he was too "noisy" and "wild" in college. "I thought I knew everything but I didn't have a clue," Kutcher said. I was partying, and I woke up several mornings wondering what I had done the night before. I was playing way too hard. I am shocked that I am not dead." Kutcher worked as a student summer employee in the cereal department of the GM plant in Cedar Rapids, where he occasionally sold his blood plasma to earn tuition. He was approached by a model scout at The Airliner bar in Iowa City, Iowa, and entered the "Fresh Faces of Iowa" modeling competition while at the University of Iowa. He placed first in a trip to the International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) Convention in New York City. Kutcher left Iowa for a stay in New York City before returning to Cedar Rapids to pursue a career in acting.

Personal life

Ashley Ellerin, who was dating Ashton Kutcher at the time, was murdered in February 2001. Kutcher, despite not a suspect, appeared in the 2019 trial of serial killer Michael Gargiulo. Ellerin was murdered on the night, he (Kutcher) arrived to pick her up for a date but that she had not answered the door. His details helped to determine the time of death. Gargiulo was found guilty of her murder and sentenced to death on July 16, 2021.

On September 24, 2005, Kutcher and Demi Moore married. Moore announced on November 17, 2011, six years later, that she intended to end the marriage. Kutcher filed for divorce from Moore on December 21, 2012, citing irreconcilable inconsistencies as the reason for the separation of more than a year. On November 27, 2013, the divorce was finalized.

During the first half of 2012, Kutcher began dating his ex That '70s Show co-star Mila Kunis. She gave birth to a daughter in October 2014 after they became engaged in February 2014. Kunis married Kutcher in July 2015. In November 2016, she gave birth to a son. The family lives in a Beverly Hills sustainable farmhouse designed by the couple and architect Howard Backen.

Kutcher referred to himself as a fiscal conservative and social liberal in 2009. He is a gun owner, but he supports new gun regulations to reduce school killings. Following the Las Vegas mass shooting in 2017, he posted on Twitter, "I've had a pistol since I was 12 years old, but enough is enough." I'm a hunter and a sportsman, but no one needs assault rifles. Let's hope. "Let's reform the legislation"

He trains in the martial art Brazilian jiujitsu, and he is a brown belt under Rigan Machado.

Kutcher was named assistant coach for Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles's freshman football team on September 17, 2008. However, he was unable to return in 2009 because he was filming Spread.

Kutcher sold his Hollywood Hills home, which he purchased in 2004 for $1 million dollars.

Kutcher was raised as a Roman Catholic. He practices Kabbalah, has visited Israel, and read the Torah; his wife Mila Kunis said he "taught [me] everything I never knew" about her faith, Judaism, as an adult, although he hasn't converted as an adult. Kutcher visited Kabbalah centers in Tel Aviv and Tsfat on several trips to Israel. "Israel is near and dear to my heart," Kutcher said in 2013; traveling to Israel brings you right back to the source of creation; attempting to get closer to that. And going back to the source of inspiration as a designer is very inspiring. "This location has been really inspiring to me, not just on a spiritual level, but also on a creative and creative level."

Kutcher became the 500th paying customer to ride Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo in April 2012.

Kutcher became the first Twitter user to reach more than 1 million followers on April 16, 2009, beating CNN in the site's "Million followers competition." However, there have been multiple claims that Twitter manipulated the contest's results by blocking users from "unfollowing" Kutcher or CNN.

Kutcher called Joe Paterno's firing "in poor taste" in November 2011 after he condemned his tweet in reaction to the Jerry Sandusky child sexual assault scandal. Kutcher later handed over the account of his Twitter account to his Katalyst Media staff.

"There are never diaper changing stations in men's restrooms," Kutcher wrote on Facebook on March 8, 2015. On my Facebook page, the first public men's room that I enter gets a free shout out.

Kutcher has used his social media — particularly on Facebook — to post and promote material released by A Plus, a social media-driven content platform and a subsidiary of which he is the chairman — has leveraged his social media presence.

Kutcher and then-wife Demi Moore began a public service campaign in April 2011 to combat child sex trafficking. According to Kutcher, 100,000 to 300,000 American children were sold into sexual slavery. The Village Voice, a newspaper, had the number attacked. Kutcher and others, including the New York Times, CSPAN, and CNN, used a peer-reviewed study comparing minors at risk of sexual abuse. It was only hundreds of children, according to the Village Voice, who did their study. Kutcher denied that the Village Voice's attack on child prostitution and took to Twitter to request that Village Voice advertisers remove their ads from publications owned by its parent company.

Kutcher revealed in August 2022 that he had been diagnosed with vasculitis two years ago, which had affected his hearing, vision, and mobility during the course of a year.

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Career

Kutcher first participated in an IMTA competition in 1998 and was modelled in Paris and Milan.

Kutcher performed well in modeling and moved to Los Angeles after his first appearance. Michael Kelso appeared in the television series That '70s Show from 1998 to 2006. Kutcher appeared in a number of film roles, but he auditioned but was not cast for the role of Danny Walker in Pearl Harbor (2001) (replaced by Josh Hartnett). Where's My Car? (2000), Just Married (2003), Guess Who (2005). He appeared in the 2003 family film Cheaper By The Dozen as a self-obsessed actor. Kutcher played a troubled young man whose time travels in the 2004 drama film The Butterfly Effect. Despite poor feedback, the film was a box office hit.

Kutcher produced and starred in MTV's Punk'd, a series that featured hidden camera tricks on celebrities in 2003. He is also a producer of the reality television series Beauty and the Geek, Adventures in Hollyhood (based on the rap group Three 6 Mafia), The Real Wedding Crashers, and the game show Opportunity Knocks. Many of his film credits, including Punk'd, came from Katalyst Films, a production company he co-operates with partner Jason Goldberg. Kutcher was described as a "hunky young actor [who] is going in all different directions at once," including "the hottest restaurant Dolce" in Los Angeles.

Kutcher was unable to renew his contract for the eighth and final season of That '70s Show due to scheduling conflicts, although he appeared in four episodes (credited as a special guest star) and returned for the series finale. In the 2010 action comedy Killers, in which he played a hitman, Kutcher produced and starred. Kutcher was announced as Charlie Sheen's replacement on the series Two and a Half Men in May 2011.

Kutcher's deal was for one year and was estimated to be worth nearly $20 million. On September 19, 2011, Walden Schmidt's debut as the character Walden Schmidt, "Nice to Meet You, Walden Schmidt," was seen by 28.7 million people. That figure, according to the Nielsen ratings company, was more than any episode in the show's first eight seasons, when Sheen appeared in it. On the program, Kutcher made $750,000 per episode. On February 19, 2015, the series "Of Course He's Dead" was the show's conclusion.

During the seventh season of reality TV show Shark Tank, Kutcher appeared as a guest Shark.

In 2016, he appeared in Family Guy's "Candy, Quahog Marshmallow" episode. Kutcher co-starred in Netflix's The Ranch, alongside Danny Masterson, Elisha Cuthbert, and Debra Winger, playing Colt Bennett, the son of a Colorado rancher (Sam Elliott) who went back to work on the ranch from a semi-pro football career to a family business. Kutcher will appear in The '90s Show,' on April 30, 2022, it was announced that Kutcher would appear in the sequel to Kutcher's tour.

Kutcher has invested in several high-tech start-ups, outside of the entertainment industry. As of August 2017, Kutcher has invested in five startups: Neighborly, Zenbeach, StudyGate, Kopari Beauty, and most recently, Lemonade.

He is a co-founder of venture capital firm A-Grade Investments, as well as fund manager Chris Hollod. Kutcher, Oseary & Burkle formed the company in 2010 by investing $30 million of their own funds when the company was established, but by 2016, Forbes valued the firm's assets at $236 million. Kutcher introduced Sound Ventures, the successor to A-Grade Investments, which was managed by institutional funding, at SXSW on March 14, 2015.

Lenovo announced Kutcher as the product engineer on October 29, 2013. Kutcher was part of the Ooma team, a tech start-up that was born in September 2007. Kutcher was a creative Director at Ooma and was in charge of the Voice of Internet Protocol company, and Kutcher's position was as Creative Director. He led a marketing campaign and produced viral videos to advertise the service. Jason Goldberg, Kutcher's partner from Katalyst Films, has also created Katalyst Media, which also includes actor Jason Goldberg from Katalyst Films. Blah Girls, an animated cartoon, was their first website. Ooma redesigned its sales and marketing plan with a new management team in the summer of 2008, replacing Kutcher as their creative director. Rich Buchanan, a Sling Media firm, has been named Ooma's Chief Marketing Officer.

Kutcher has invested in Dolce, an Italian restaurant (other owners include Danny Masterson and Wilmer Valderrama) and Geisha House, a Japanese-themed restaurant with locations in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York City. On June 1, 2013, Geisha House came out of business. Mark Cuban, Steve Watts, and Watts' wife Angela invested a 5 percent stake in the fledgling US market in 2019.

Kutcher and his then-wife Demi Moore formed an international human rights group in 2009. The DNA Foundation, later known as Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children, works to address child sexual abuse and child pornography's worldwide distribution. Kutcher's own Twitter customer, A.plus, was launched on March 23, 2011. Although the app was initially only for desktop computers with Adobe Air running, it was later announced that it would be available on mobile devices, including iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. Users must first have the UberSocial app installed on their computer and then proceed to the device's browser to download A.plus.

Kutcher co-founded A Plus in 2013, where Kutcher is chairman of the board. Evan Beard and Kendall Dabaghi joined Evan Beard and Kendall Dabaghi to create A Plus. It started as a product discovery service in April 2014 and turned into a social media-driven news platform focusing on upbeat news. In January 2015, the first in that form was announced. It has earned 27.5 million monthly uniques in the United States, has an Alexa rank of 11787 (4019 in the United States), and has been named as a top-50 site in the United States in terms of unique visitors.

Kutcher and his partner Mila Kunis established a gofundme page in 2022 to assist refugees fleeing the violence in Ukraine perpetrated by Russia's military. As of March 2022, they earned $34 million dollars. These two organisations are on the ground in Poland and Romania, assisting people. The couple had promised to match the funds. Kunis is a native of Ukraine.

Ashton Kutcher's appearance in a Popchips ad campaign in May 2012 was widely chastised. In a dating ad-style parody, Kutcher was portrayed as an Indian man named Raj who was "looking for love" in a dating ad spoof. Online viewers and Indian-Americans alike reacted an admonition towards Kutcher's use of brown face paint and a stereotypical Indian accent.

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