Ashton Kutcher Biography
Ashton Kutcher is an American actor, producer, and entrepreneur. He began his acting career portraying Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That ’70s Show (1998–2006). He made his film debut in the romantic comedy Coming Soon (1999), followed by the comedy film Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000), which was a box office hit.
In 2003, Kutcher moved into romantic comedies, appearing in that year’s Just Married and My Boss’s Daughter. In 2003, he created and produced the television series Punk’d, also serving as host for the first eight of its ten seasons. In 2004, Kutcher starred in the lead role of the psychological film The Butterfly Effect.
He has appeared in more romantic comedies, including Guess Who (2005), A Lot Like Love (2005), What Happens in Vegas (2008), and No Strings Attached (2011). He starred as Walden Schmidt on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men (2011–2015). In 2013, he portrayed Steve Jobs in the biographical film Jobs.
Since 2016, he starred as Colt Bennett in the Netflix series The Ranch. Beyond entertainment, he is a venture capitalist. He is also the co-founder of the venture capital firm A-Grade Investments. At SXSW on March 14, 2015, Kutcher announced Sound Ventures, the successor to A-Grade Investments managing a fund backed by institutional funding.
Kutcher has also successfully invested in several high technology startups. Kutcher has investments in over 60 companies, the most prominent of which include Skype, Foursquare, Airbnb, Path and Fab.com. Kutcher has invested in five startups as of August 2017 Neighborly, Zenreach, ResearchGate, Kopari Beauty, and Lemonade marking his foray into the “insurtech” sector.
Ashton Kutcher Age
Ashton Kutcher was born on February 7, 1978,
39 years of age. He celebrates his birthday on February 7, every year. Kutcher was raised in a “relatively conservative” Catholic family.Ashton Kutcher Family
Ashton Kutcher was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Larry M. Kutcher and Diane Finnegan Kutcher. Kutcher’s mother, Diane, is of German, Bohemian and Irish descent, and was an employee at Procter and Gamble; his father, Larry, is also of Bohemian ancestry and worked in a factory.
Ashton Kutcher Siblings
Ashton has two other siblings, his sister Tausha who is older than him and his brother Michael, who is Kutcher’s fraternal twin. He has a nephew and niece namely, Jackson Kutcher and Dakota.
Ashton Kutcher Wife|Wives
Kutcher was previously married to actress and film producer Demi Moore from 2005 until their divorce in 2013. He is now married to actress Mila Kunis.
Ashton Kutcher Kids
Kutcher has two kids namely Wyatt Isabelle Kutcher and Dimitri Portwood Kutcher.
Ashton Kutcher Demi Moore
Ashton and actress Demi Moore married on September 24, 2005. Six years later, on November 17, 2011, Moore announced her intention to end the marriage. Kutcher then began dating his former That ’70s Show co-star Mila Kunis during the first half of 2012.
Ashton Kutcher Salary
Kutcher makes around $200,000 and $280,000 per episode. His increased salary is reported to be at least $700,000 per episode by the time he replaced Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men.
Ashton Kutcher Quick facts
Weight: 80 kg (176 lb)
Shoe Size: 11 US
Body Shape:
Hair Colour: Brown
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Chest: 44 in (111 cm)
Waist: 32 (81 cm)
Ashton Kutcher Net Worth
Kutcher is an American actor, producer, and entrepreneur who has an estimated net worth of $200 million dollars making him one of the richest actors in the world.
Ashton Kutcher Acting Career
Modeling
After participating in IMTA competition in 1998, he signed with Next modeling agency in New York, where he appeared in commercials for Calvin Klein, and modeled in Paris and Milan.
Actor
Upon his success in modeling, he moved to Los Angeles after his first audition. He was then cast as Michael Kelso in the television series That ’70s Show, from 1998 to 2006. He was then cast in a series of film roles; although he auditioned but he was not cast in the role of Danny Walker in Pearl Harbor (2001) (replaced by Josh Hartnett), he starred in several comedy films, including Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000), Just Married (2003), and Guess Who (2005).
He appeared in the 2003 family film Cheaper By The Dozen as a self-obsessed actor. In the 2004 drama film The Butterfly Effect, Kutcher played a conflicted young man who time travels. The film received mixed to negative reviews but was a box office success. In 2003, Kutcher produced and starred as the host in his own series, MTV’s Punk’d that involved hidden camera tricks performed on celebrities.
He 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), The Real Wedding Crashers, and the game show Opportunity Knocks. Many of his production credits, including Punk, ‘d come through Katalyst Films, a production company he runs with partner Jason Goldberg.
In 2004, an interviewer described him as a “hunky young actor [who] is heading in all different directions at once”, including “the hot L.A. restaurant Dolce”: “If anything, I’m a trier,” says Kutcher between puffs of filtered Lucky Strikes. “I think, more than anything, it comes from the fact that my father always had several irons in the fire. Also, I don’t want to fail.
If something doesn’t work out if That ’70s Show got canceled or if I wasn’t going to have a film career—I always wanted to have backup contingency plans. So I just started doing other things; and on a half-hour sitcom, you’re really only working for 30 hours a week. It allows a lot of time sitting around, which I always kind of filled with work.
Because of scheduling conflicts with the filming of The Guardian, Kutcher was unable to renew his contract for the eighth and final season of That ’70s Show, although he appeared in its first four episodes (credited as a special guest star) and returned for the series finale. Kutcher produced and starred in the 2010 action comedy, Killers, in which he played a hitman.
In May 2011, Kutcher was announced as Charlie Sheen’s replacement on the series Two and a Half Men. Kutcher’s contract was for one year and was believed to be worth nearly $20 million. His debut as the character Walden Schmidt, entitled “Nice to Meet You, Walden Schmidt”, was seen by 28.7 million people on September 19, 2011.
The Nielsen rating company reported that figure was more than any episode in the show’s first eight seasons when Sheen starred in it. Kutcher earned $750,000 an episode on the show. The show ended with a forty-minute series finale “Of Course He’s Dead” on February 19, 2015. Kutcher appeared as a guest Shark during the seventh season of reality TV show Shark Tank, which premiered on September 25, 2015.
He appeared in the “Candy, Quahog Marshmallow” episode of Family Guy in 2016. Since 2016, he has starred in the Netflix series, The Ranch, alongside Danny Masterson, Elisha Cuthbert, and Debra Winger, playing the role of Colt Bennett, the son of a Colorado rancher (Sam Elliott) returning home from a semi-pro football career to run the family business on the ranch.
Ashton Kutcher Investments
Kutcher has invested in multiple high-profile technology startups, both individually and with investment funds. He co-founded A-Grade Investments in 2010 with entertainment executive Guy Oseary and billionaire investor Ron Burkle. His early notable investments include Skype Inc., Airbnb Inc and Uber Technologies Inc. Kutcher and Oseary in 2015 launched another investment company, Sound Ventures. Kutcher began his career as a model before joining the Fox sitcom “That ’70s Show.” He has starred in numerous TV shows and movies.
Ashton Kutcher Venture capital
Beyond the entertainment world, he has invested in several high technology startups. Ashton has also invested in five startups in August 2017 Neighborly, Zenreach, ResearchGate, Kopari Beauty, and most recently, Lemonade marking his foray into the “insurtech” sector. He is the co-founder of venture capital firm A-Grade Investments with Guy Oseary and Ron Burkle and fund manager Chris Hollod.
Kutcher, Oseary & Burkle started by initially investing $30m of their own funds in 2010 when they founded the firm, by 2016 Forbes valued the firm’s holdings at $236m. At SXSW on March 14, 2015, Kutcher announced Sound Ventures, the successor to A-Grade Investments managing a fund backed by institutional funding. Lenovo announced that it had hired Kutcher as a product engineer on October 29, 2013.
Ashton was part of the management team for Ooma, a tech start-up launched in September 2007. Ooma is in the Voice over Internet Protocol business and Kutcher’s role was as Creative Director. He spearheaded a marketing campaign and produced viral videos to promote this service. He also created an interactive arm of Katalyst called Katalyst Media, with his partner from Katalyst Films, Jason Goldberg.
Their first site was the animated cartoon Blah Girls. Ooma revamped its sales and marketing strategy with a new management team in the summer of 2008, replacing Kutcher as their creative director. Rich Buchanan, from Sling Media, became Ooma’s, Chief Marketing Officer.
Kutcher has invested in an Italian restaurant, Dolce (other owners include Danny Masterson and Wilmer Valderrama) and a Japanese-themed restaurant named Geisha House with locations in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York City. Geisha House went out of business on June 1, 2013. In 2019 Ashton Kutcher, Mark Cuban, Steve Watts and Watts’ wife Angela, invested a 50% stake in Veldskoen shoes fledgling US business.
Ashton Kutcher Other work
In 2009, Kutcher established an international human rights organization with his then-wife Demi Moore. DNA Foundation, later known as Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children, works to address the sexual exploitation of children and the proliferation of child pornography on a global scale. On March 23, 2011, Kutcher launched his own Twitter client with UberMedia called A.plus.
While the app was initially available exclusively for desktop computers with Adobe Air installed, it eventually became available on mobile platforms, for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. In order to download on one of the 3 mobile platforms, users must first have the UberSocial client installed on their device and then proceed to the device’s browser to download A.plus.
In 2013, Kutcher teamed up with Evan Beard and Kendall Dabaghi to launch A Plus, where Kutcher is currently Chairman of the Board. Initially a product discovery service, it morphed in April 2014 to a social media-driven content platform focused on upbeat stories.
It was officially launched in that incarnation in January 2015. It was reported 27.5 million monthly uniques in the United States, has an Alexa rank of about 11787 (4019 in the US), and is ranked by Quantcast as a top 50 site in the US in terms of unique visitors.
Ashton Kutcher Controversy
Ashton Kutcher received widespread criticism for his appearance in a Popchips ad campaign in May 2012. The campaign featured Kutcher as an Indian man “looking for love” in a dating ad-style spoof. Kutcher’s use of brown face paint and a stereotypical Indian accent received backlash from online viewers and members of the Indian-American community.
Ashton Kutcher Interests and beliefs
Kutcher describes himself as a fiscal conservative and social liberal. He is a gun owner; however, he supports new gun laws to help stop mass shootings. Following the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, he said on his Twitter “I’ve had a gun since I was 12 yrs old but enough is enough. I’m a hunter and a sportsman but nobody needs [Assault rifles]. Let’s pray.
Then let’s change the law.” He trains in the martial art Brazilian jiu-jitsu and is currently a brown belt under Rigan Machado. On September 17, 2008, Kutcher was named the assistant coach for the freshman football team at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. However, he was unable to return in 2009 because he was filming Spread.
In February 2011, Kutcher sold his Hollywood Hills home, which he originally bought in 2004. Kutcher, a Roman Catholic, has visited Israel and studied the Kabbalah. His No Strings Attached co-star, Natalie Portman, stated in 2011 that Kutcher “has taught me more about Judaism than I think I have ever learned from anyone else”.
On trips to Israel, Kutcher visited Kabbalah centers in Tel Aviv and in Tsfat. In 2013, Kutcher remarked, “Israel is near and dear to my heart … coming to Israel is sort of coming back to the source of creation trying to get closer to that.
And as a creative person, going to the source of creation is really inspiring. And this place has been really inspiring for me not only on a spiritual level but also on an artistic and creative level.” In April 2012, Kutcher became the 500th paying customer to sign up to ride Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo.
Ashton Kutcher Social media presence
On April 16, 2009, Kutcher became the first Twitter user to reach more than 1 million followers, beating CNN in the site’s “Million followers contest”. However, there have been several reports that Twitter manipulated the contest’s results by preventing users from “unfollowing” Kutcher or CNN.
In November 2011, Kutcher received heavy criticism for his tweet in response to the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal, calling the firing of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno “in poor taste”. Kutcher subsequently turned over management of his Twitter account to his team at the Katalyst Media company.
On March 8, 2015, Kutcher sparked a national debate regarding the lack of equal access to diaper changing facilities in men’s restrooms with this Facebook post: “There are NEVER diaper changing stations in men [sic] public restrooms. The first public men’s room that I go into that has one gets a free shout out on my FB page!”
Kutcher has leveraged his social media presence, particularly on Facebook, to post and promote content published by A Plus, a social media-driven content platform and associated company of which he is the chairman. In April 2011, Kutcher and then-wife Demi Moore began a public service announcement campaign to end child sex trafficking.
Kutcher claimed that 100,000 to 300,000 American children were sold into sexual slavery. The number was criticized by the newspaper The Village Voice. Kutcher and others including the New York Times, CSPAN, and CNN used a peer-reviewed study referring to minors at risk for sexual exploitation.
The Village Voice, from their research, said it was only hundreds of children. Kutcher claimed the criticism by the Village Voice promoted child prostitution and used Twitter to request that Village Voice advertisers withdraw their advertising from publications owned by its parent company.
Ashton Kutcher Suicide Attempt
Kutcher suffered from a traumatic time during his teens when his brother Michael was attacked by cardiomyopathy. His life at home had become pretty tense and nerve-racking causing Kutcher to become stressed at all times.
He started keeping himself occupied with other chores and didn’t feel like staying at home. This is when he attempted to commit suicide. He was only 13 when he tried jumping from a balcony of a hospital in Cedar Rapids, where Michael was admitted. Fortunately, his father interceded and stopped him from ending his life.
Ashton Kutcher Arrested for Stealing During his Senior Year in High School
When Kutcher was sixteen years old, his life at home became unbearable when his parents got divorced. This episode adversely affected Kutcher to such an extent, that he burglarized his high school with his cousin to steal some money, but was arrested while he attempted to escape from the building. He was charged with third-degree burglary and was put on a probation period for three years and also had to perform community service of 180hours.
Ashton Kutcher Awards and nominations
Since he started acting, Kutcher has been nominated by the Teen Choice Awards the most. He has also won awards for his romantic comedies A Lot like Love, What Happens in Vegas and No Strings Attached. In 1999, he was nominated by the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series by a Supporting Young Actor as Michael Kelso in That ’70s Show. He has also been nominated by the Kid’s Choice Awards, MTV Movie Awards, People’s Choice Awards, and the Golden Raspberry Awards.
Ashton Kutcher Movies
- No Strings Attached 2011
- Spread 2009
- The Butterfly Effect 2004
- Jobs 2013
- Just Married 2003
- Killers 2010
- A Lot like Love 2005
- What Happens in Vegas 2008
- The Guardian 2006
- Dude, Where’s My Car? 2000
- New Year’s Eve 2011
- Guess Who (film) 2005
- Valentine’s Day 2010
- Open Season 2006
- My Boss’s Daughter 2003
- Texas Rangers 2001
- Boog and Elliot’s Midnight Bun Run 2001
Ashton Kutcher TV Shows
- That ’70s Show 1998-2006
- The Ranch 2016-2020
- Two and a Half Men 2003-2015
- Punk’d 2003-2007
- Shark Tank 2009
- Miss Guided 2008
- You’ve Got a Friend (TV program) 2004
- Beauty and the Geek Australia 2009-2014
- The Fam Fite 2009
- Robot Chicken 2005
- Just Shoot Me! 1997-2003
- Room 401 2007
- Grounded for Life 2001-2005
Frequently Asked Questions About Ashton Kutcher
Who is Ashton Kutcher?
Ashton is an American actor, producer, and entrepreneur.
How old is Ashton Kutcher?
He is 42 years old as of 2019.
How tall is Ashton Kutcher?
He stands at a height of 189.2 cm (6 ft 2.5 in)
Is Ashton Kutcher married?
Yes, he is married and he is married actress Mila Kunis.
How much is Ashton Kutcher’s worth?
He has an estimated net worth of $200 million dollars as of 2019.
How much does Ashton Kutcher make?
Kutcher makes around $200,000 and $280,000 per episode. His increased salary is reported to be at least $700,000 per episode by the time he replaced Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men.
Where does Ashton Kutcher live?
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis just purchased up a sweet oceanfront home for $10 million in Carpinteria, California U.S.A
Is Ashton Kutcher dead or alive?
He is still alive and in good health.
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