Ashton Kutcher is an American actor, producer and entrepreneur. He began his acting career playing Michael Kelso on the Fox sitcom That ’70s Show (1998-2006). He made his film debut in the romantic comedy Coming Soon (1999), followed by the comedy Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000), which was a box office success.
In 2003, Kutcher switched to romantic comedies, appearing in that year’s Just Married and My Boss’s Daughter. In 2003 she created and produced the television series Punk’d, which also hosted the first eight of its ten seasons. In 2004, Kutcher starred in the lead role in 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 played the role of Walden Schmidt on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men (2011-2015). In 2013, he played Steve Jobs in the biopic Jobs.
Since 2016, he has played Colt Bennett on 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 which manages a fund backed by institutional funding.
Kutcher has also successfully invested in several high-tech startups. Kutcher has investments in over 60 companies, the most notable of which include Skype, Foursquare, Airbnb, Path and Fab.com. Kutcher has invested in five startups since 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, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA 39 years of age. He celebrates his birthday on February 7 every year. Kutcher grew up 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 of Procter and Gamble; his father, Larry, is also of Bohemian descent and worked in a factory.
Brothers Ashton Kutcher
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 a niece, namely Jackson Kutcher and Dakota.
Ashton Kutcher Wife
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 children, Wyatt Isabelle Kutcher and Dimitri Portwood Kutcher.
ASHTON KUTCHER DEMI MOORE
Ashton and actress Demi Moore got married on September 24, 2005. Six years later, on November 17, 2011, Moore announced his intention to end the marriage. Kutcher then began dating his former That ’70 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 said to have been at least $ 700,000 per episode when he replaced Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men.
ASHTON KUTCHER QUICK FACTS
Weight: 80kg (176lbs)
Shoe Size: 11 US Your
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Hair Color: Brown
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Chest: 44in (111cm)
Waist: 32 (81cm)
ASHTON KUTCHER NET WORTH
Kutcher is an American actor, producer, and entrepreneur who has an estimated net worth of $ 200 million making him one of the richest actors in the world.
ASHTON KUTCHER ACTING CAREER
Modeling
After entering the IMTA competition in 1998, he signed with modeling agency Next in New York, where he appeared in commercials for Calvin Klein, and modeled in Paris and Milan.
Actor
After his success in modeling, he moved to Los Angeles after his first audition. He was subsequently cast as Michael Kelso in the television series That ’70s Show, from 1998 to 2006. He was then cast in a number of film roles; Although he auditioned but was not cast as Danny Walker in Pearl Harbor (2001) (replaced by Josh Hartnett), he starred in several comedy films, including Friend, 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 The Butterfly Effect, Kutcher portrayed a conflicted young man who travels through time. The film received mixed or negative reviews, but was a box office success. In 2003, Kutcher produced and hosted his own series, MTV’s Punk’d which featured hidden camera tricks performed on celebrities.
He is also an executive producer of the reality shows 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 production credits, including Punk, have come from Katalyst Films, a production company he runs with partner Jason Goldberg.
In 2004, an interviewer described him as a ‘muscular young actor [who] is heading in all directions at once’, including ‘LA Dolce restaurant’: ‘If nothing else, I’m a trevier,’ says Kutcher in between. puff and the other of filtered Lucky Strikes. “I think more than anything else 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 if That ’70s Show got canceled or if I didn’t have a film career, I always wanted to have contingency plans back up. So I started doing other things; and on a half-hour sitcom, you actually only work 30 hours a week. It allows for a lot of time sitting around, which I’ve always filled with work.
Due to scheduling conflicts with filming The Guardian, Kutcher was unable to renew the 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 is back for the series finale. Kutcher produced and starred in the 2010 action comedy Killers, in which he played a hit man.
In May 2011, Kutcher was announced as Charlie Sheen’s replacement in the Two and a Half Men series. Kutcher’s contract was for a year and was believed to be worth nearly $ 20 million. His debut as the character Walden Schmidt, titled ‘Nice to Meet You, Walden Schmidt’, was viewed by 28.7 million people on September 19, 2011.
Rating firm Nielsen reported that the figure was more than any episode in the first eight seasons of the show in which Sheen starred in it. Kutcher earned $ 750,000 per episode on the show. The show concluded with a forty-minute finale of the ‘Of Course He’s Dead’ series on February 19, 2015. Kutcher appeared as a Shark guest during the seventh season of the reality show Shark Tank, which premiered on September 25, 2015.
He appeared in Family Guy’s episode ‘Candy, Quahog Marshmallow’ in 2016. Since 2016, he has starred in the Netflix series The Ranch, alongside Danny Masterson, Elisha Cuthbert and Debra Winger, as Colt Bennett, the son of a farmer Colorado (Sam Elliott) who returns home from a semi-professional football career to run the family business on the ranch.
ASHTON KUTCHER INVESTMENTS
Kutcher has invested in multiple high-profile tech 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. Its first major investments include Skype Inc., Airbnb Inc and Uber Technologies Inc. Kutcher and Oseary launched another investment company, Sound Ventures in 2015. Kutcher began her career as a model before joining the Fox sitcom ‘That’ 70s Show ‘. He has acted in numerous TV shows and films.
ASHTON KUTCHER VENTURE CAPITAL
In addition to the entertainment world, he has invested in several high-tech startups. Ashton also invested in five startups in August 2017 Neighborly, Zenreach, ResearchGate, Kopari Beauty and, most recently, Lemonade, marking her foray into the ‘insurtech’ sector. He is the co-founder of A-Grade Investments venture capital firm with Guy Oseary and Ron Burkle and fund manager Chris Hollod.
Kutcher, Oseary and Burkle began by initially investing $ 30 million of their own funds in 2010 when they founded the company, in 2016 Forbes valued the company’s holdings at $ 236 million. At SXSW on March 14, 2015, Kutcher announced Sound Ventures, the successor to A-Grade Investments which manages a fund backed by institutional funding. Lenovo announced it had hired Kutcher as a product engineer on October 29, 2013.
Ashton was part of the management team of Ooma, a technology start-up launched in September 2007. Ooma is in the Voice over Internet Protocol business and Kutcher’s role was that of Creative Director. He led a viral video marketing and product campaign to promote this service. He also created a Katalyst interactive arm called Katalyst Media, with his Katalyst Films partner Jason Goldberg.
Their first site was the cartoon Blah Girls. Ooma renewed its sales and marketing strategy with a new management team in the summer of 2008, replacing Kutcher as creative director. Rich Buchanan, of Sling Media, has become 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 called Geisha House with locations in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York City. The 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 fledgling Veldskoen shoes in the United States.
ASHTON KUTCHER OTHER WORK
In 2009, Kutcher founded 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 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. To download on any of the 3 mobile platforms, users must first have the UberSocial client installed on their device and then proceed to the device browser to download A.plus.
In 2013, Kutcher partnered with Evan Beard and Kendall Dabaghi to launch A Plus, of which Kutcher is currently chairman of the board. Initially a product discovery service, it evolved in April 2014 into a social media-driven content platform focused on cheerful stories.
It was officially launched in that incarnation in January 2015. It has been reported that 27.5 million monthly unique users in the US, has an Alexa ranking of approximately 11787 (4019 in the US), and is ranked by Quantcast in the top 50 sites in the United States. 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 parody. Kutcher’s use of brown face paint and a stereotypical Indian accent has 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 a social liberal. He is a gun owner; however, it supports new gun laws to help stop mass shootings. After the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, he said on his Twitter: ‘I’ve had a gun since I was 12, but enough is enough. I am a hunter and a sportsman but nobody needs [assault rifles]. Let’s pray.
Then let’s change the law. ‘He trains in the Brazilian martial art jiu-jitsu and is currently a brown belt under Rigan Machado. On September 17, 2008, Kutcher was appointed assistant coach for the freshman football team at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. However, he was unable to return in 2009 as he was filming Spread.
In February 2011, Kutcher sold his Hollywood Hills home, which he had originally bought in 2004. Kutcher, a Roman Catholic, visited Israel and studied Kabbalah. His No Strings Attached co-star, Natalie Portman, said in 2011 that Kutcher ‘taught me more about Judaism than I think I’ve ever learned from anyone else’.
While traveling to Israel, Kutcher visited Kabbalah centers in Tel Aviv and Tsfat. In 2013, Kutcher noted: ‘Israel is near and dear to my heart … coming to Israel is like going back to the source of creation trying to get closer to that.
And as a creative person, going to the source of creation is truly inspiring. And this place was 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 lead Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo.
ASHTON KUTCHER PRESENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA
On April 16, 2009, Kutcher became the first Twitter user to reach more than 1 million followers, beating CNN in the site’s ‘one million followers contest’. However, there have been several reports that Twitter manipulated the contest 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 manager Joe Paterno ‘bad taste’. Kutcher subsequently transferred the management of his Twitter account to his team at Katalyst Media.
On March 8, 2015, Kutcher sparked a national debate about the lack of equal access to diaper changing rooms in men’s restrooms with this Facebook post: ‘There are NEVER changing stations in public men’s restrooms. The first public room for men I enter that has one gets a free shout out on my FB page! ‘
Kutcher has leveraged his social media presence, particularly Facebook, to post and promote content posted by A Plus, a social media-based content platform and associate company of which he is president. In April 2011, Kutcher and then-wife Demi Moore launched a public service announcement campaign to end child sex trafficking.
Kutcher claimed that 100,000 to 300,000 American children were sold as sex slaves. The number was criticized by The Village Voice newspaper. Kutcher and others, including the New York Times, CSPAN, and CNN, used a peer-reviewed study that refers to minors at risk of sexual exploitation.
The Village Voice, from their research, said it was just hundreds of children. Kutcher said the Village Voice’s criticisms promoted child prostitution and used Twitter to request Village Voice advertisers to withdraw their advertising from publications owned by its parent company.
SUICIDE ATTEMPT BY ASHTON KUTCHER
Kutcher suffered from a traumatic period in his teens when his brother Michael was attacked by cardiomyopathy. His life at home had become quite tense and unnerving, causing Kutcher to be stressed at all times.
He began to keep busy with other chores and didn’t want to stay home. This is when he attempted suicide. He was only 13 when he tried to jump off the balcony of a hospital in Cedar Rapids, where Michael was hospitalized. Fortunately, his father intervened and prevented him from ending his life.
ASHTON KUTCHER ARRESTED FOR THEFT IN HIS SENIOR YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL
When Kutcher was sixteen, his home life became unbearable when his parents divorced. This incident negatively affected Kutcher to such an extent that he robbed his high school with his cousin to steal money, but was arrested while trying to escape from the building. He was charged with third-degree burglary and was put on probation for three years and also had to perform 180-hour community service.
ASHTON KUTCHER PREMIUM AND NOMINATION
Since starting acting, Kutcher has been the most nominated for the Teen Choice Awards. 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 Outstanding Performance in a TV Series by a Young Supporting Actor as Michael Kelso in That ’70s Show. It has also been nominated for the Kid’s Choice Awards, MTV Movie Awards, People’s Choice Awards, and Golden Raspberry Awards.
ASHTON KUTCHER MOVIES
- No Strings Attached 2011
- Release 2009
- The butterfly effect 2004
- Work 2013
- Just Married 2003
- Killers 2010
- A Lot like Love 2005
- What Happens in Las Vegas 2008
- The Guardian 2006
- Man, where is my car? 2000
- New Year 2011
- Guess Who (movie) 2005
- Valentine’s Day 2010
- 2006 open season
- 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 have a friend (TV show) 2004
- Beauty and the Geek Australia 2009-2014
- The Fam Fite 2009
- Robot Chicken 2005
- Just shoot me! 1997-2003
- Stanza 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 in 2019.
How Tall Is Ashton Kutcher?
It stands at a height of 189.2 cm (6 ft 2.5 in)
Is Ashton Kutcher Married?
Yes, he is married and is married actress Mila Kunis.
How much is Ashton Kutcher worth?
He has an estimated net worth of $ 200 million as of 2019.
How much does Ashton Kutcher make?
Kutcher makes around $ 200,000 and $ 280,000 per episode. His increased salary is said to have been at least $ 700,000 per episode when he replaced Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men.
Where does Ashton Kutcher live?
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis just bought a sweet oceanfront home for $ 10 million in Carpinteria, California, USA
Is Ashton Kutcher Dead or Alive?
He is still alive and in good health.
Which company has Ashton Kutcher invested in?
Los Angeles, California, United States A-Grade Investments is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by actor Ashton Kutcher, entertainment manager Guy Oseary and billionaire investor Ron Burkle to invest in tech start-ups. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Does Ashton Kutcher have the ripple?
Kutcher and his team donated $ 4 million in Ripple’s XRP tokens to his wildlife charity, The Ellen DeGeneres Wildlife Fund. … He has invested in startups including Ripple and bitcoin payment service provider BitPay. He has been a proponent of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology for quite some time.
