Ashton Kutcher Wiki, Biography

Born Christopher Ashton Kutcher February 7, 1978 (1978-02-07) (age32) Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S. Ashton Kutcher (pronounced / k t r/; born February 7, 1978) is an American actor, producer and former fashion model, best-known for playing Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show. Early life Kutcher was born Christopher Ashton Kutcher in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Larry Kutcher, a worker at a General Mills factory, and Diane (nee Finnegan), a Procter he was arrested leaving the scene. Career After participating as a modeling contestant in an IMTA competition (losing to Josh Duhamel) in 1998, Kutcher signed with the Next modeling agency in New York, appeared in ads for Calvin Klein, modeled in Paris and Milan, and appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial. After some success in modeling, Kutcher moved to Los Angeles and, after his first audition, was cast as Michael Kelso in the television series That '70s Show, which debuted in 1998 and ended in 2006. His 2004 film The Butterfly Effect was an unusually dramatic role for Kutcher, playing a conflicted young man who fell in love with a girl called Kayleigh; the film received mixed to negative reviews, but was a box-office success. In 2003, Kutcher produced and starred in his own series on MTV's Punk'd as the host. Kutcher is also an executive producer of the reality television shows Beauty and the Geek, Adventures in Hollyhood (based around the rap group Three 6 Mafia), and The Real Wedding Crashers and the game show Opportunity Knocks. Kutcher has also created an interactive arm of Katalyst called Katalyst Media with his partner from Katalyst Films, Jason Goldberg. Ooma revamped its sales and marketing strategy with a new management team in the summer of 2008, replacing Ashton Kutcher as their creative director. Kutcher produced and starred in the 2010 action comedy, Killers, in which he played a hitman. On September 17, 2008, Kutcher was named the assistant coach for the freshman football team at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. Twitter presence On April 16, 2009, Kutcher ("aplusk") became the first user of Twitter to have more than 1,000,000 followers, beating out CNN in the "Million followers contest". However, there have been several reports that Twitter manipulated the contest's results by preventing users from "unfollowing" Kutcher or CNN. ^ "Ashton Kutcher Biography". ^ a b "Interview With Ashton Kutcher - Part 2". ^ "Living The Dream The Making of Spread" (Commentary with Ashton Kutcher saying; "I'm from the Mid West. Profile: Ashton Kutcher Contemplate. Profile: Ashton Kutcher on past party days and his rock-solid relationship. ^ "Two New Producers, Lots of New Projects" ^ "Ashton Kutcher to Shoot 'Five Killers'" ^ Oldenburg, Ann (September 27, 2006). Times report on Kutcher ^ L.A. Times blogsite ^ "Inside Ashton Kutcher's world of Twitter". ^ CNN report on Kutcher ^ Fox News report on Kutcher ^ MTV article on Kutcher ^ How to unfollow Ashton Kutcher ^ http://10starmovies.com/profiles/Ashton_Kutcher_158202/ Ashton Kutcher at the Internet Movie Database Ashton Kutcher at Allmovie Ashton Kutcher at People.com Ashton Kutcher on Twitter