Ashton Kutcher is an American actor, producer, and model whose net worth ascends to $200 million. Christopher Ashton Kutcher was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (USA) on February 7th, 1978. Son of Diane Finnegan, a Procter & Gamble employee, and Larry Kutcher, who worked in a General Mills factory. He has Czech ancestry by his father and Irish by his mother.
He was raised in a Catholic household with his older sister, Tausha, and a twin brother, Michael Kutcher, who had a heart transplant when the siblings were young. His brother suffers from cerebral palsy and is a spokesman for the Reaching for the Stars Foundation. His childhood was difficult, and he had several jobs, including carpentry, and other jobs related to farm life.
Education and tough adolescence.
He attended Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for about a year when his family moved to Tiffin, Iowa, where he attended Clear Creek-Amana High School. In addition to being a student, he participated in the football team as a receiver. Meanwhile, his life in the house was stressful. Kutcher admitted that as a teenager, he thought about suicide. At thirteen, he tried to jump off a balcony of a hospital, but his father intervened at the last minute.
Around that time, his parents divorced. During his senior year, he burst into high school at night with his cousin to steal the money, but upon leaving he was arrested. Kutcher was convicted in third degree for trespassing and sentenced to three years’ probation and 180 hours of community service.
Career.
During his time at the University, he was approached by a talent hunt at a bar called The Airliner in Iowa City, Iowa, and was hired to enter “Fresh Faces of Iowa,” a model competition. After placing first, he won a trip to New York to the International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) Convention. After his stay in New York, Ashton returned to his home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, before moving to Los Angeles to continue his acting career.
After participating as a contestant in an IMTA competition (losing against Josh Duhamel) in 1998, Kutcher signed with an agency in New York, appeared in advertisements for Calvin Klein, modeled in Paris and Milan, and appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial. After being a model with certain success, Kutcher decided to Los Angeles, where he made his first audition, from which he was chosen as Michael Kelso on the television series That ’70s Show, which debuted in 1998 and ended in 2006. He starred in several comic films, including Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000), Newlyweds (2003), and Guess Who (2005).
He appeared briefly in the 2003 film Cheaper by the Dozen, playing a self-obsessed actor. His 2004 film The Butterfly Effect represented an unusual character for him, because he was playing a troubled young man who falls in love with a girl called Kayleigh; The film received negative mixed reviews, but it was a blockbuster hit.
Personal life.
He married actress Demi Moore on September 24th, 2005 at a private ceremony, held by a rabbi from the Kabbalah Center. It was attended by about 150 guests, including friends and family like Bruce Willis, Moore’s former husband. In November 2011, Demi Moore announced that she would divorce Ashton Kutcher after six years of marriage. Since 2012, he has a relationship with actress Mila Kunis, with whom he married in 2015.
