The Ashton Kutcher Handbook - Everything you need to know about Ashton Kutcher

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Description

Christopher Ashton Kutcher (born February 7, 1978), best known as Ashton Kutcher, is an American actor, producer, former fashion model and comedian, best known for his portrayal of Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show.

He also created, produced and hosted Punk'd, and played lead roles in the Hollywood films Dude, Where's My Car?, Just Married, The Butterfly Effect, The Guardian, and What Happens in Vegas.He is also the producer and co-creator of the supernatural TV show Room 401 and the reality TV show Beauty and the Geek.Kutcher currently co-stars in the hit CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men as the character Walden Schmidt.

This book is your ultimate resource for Ashton Kutcher. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Ashton Kutcher, Coming Soon (1999 film), Down to You, Reindeer Games, Dude, Where's My Car?, Texas Rangers (film), Just Married, My Boss's Daughter, Cheaper by the Dozen (2003 film), The Butterfly Effect, Guess Who (film), A Lot Like Love, Robot Chicken, Bobby (2006 film), The Guardian (2006 film), Open Season (film), What Happens in Vegas, Spread (film), Personal Effects, Valentine's Day (film), Killers (2010 film), No Strings Attached (film), New Year's Eve (film), That '70s Show, Grounded for Life, Punk'd, Miss Guided, Two and a Half Men, Beauty and the Geek, Pop Fiction, The Beautiful Life: TBL

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• Autobiography

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• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2012
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• EAN13: 9781743335314
• Langue: English
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Contents

Articles Ashton Kutcher Coming Soon (1999 film) Down to You Reindeer Games Dude, Where's My Car? Texas Rangers (film) Just Married My Boss's Daughter Cheaper by the Dozen (2003 film) The Butterfly Effect Guess Who (film) A Lot Like Love Robot Chicken Bobby (2006 film) The Guardian (2006 film) Open Season (film) What Happens in Vegas Spread (film) Personal Effects

Valentine's Day (film)

Killers (2010 film) No Strings Attached (film) New Year's Eve (film) That '70s Show Grounded for Life Punk'd Miss Guided Two and a Half Men Beauty and the Geek Pop Fiction The Beautiful Life: TBL

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Ashton Kutcher

Ashton Kutcher

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Occupation

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Spouse

Children

Ashton Kutcher

Ashton Kutcher, September 2008

Christopher Ashton Kutcher February 7, 1978 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.

Actor, producer, former fashion model, comedian, television host

1998–present

Demi Moore (m. 2005–present)

Rumer Willis (step-daughter)

[1] Christopher Ashton Kutcher(/ˈkʊtʃər/; born February 7, 1978), best known asAshton Kutcher, is an American actor, producer, former fashion model and comedian, best known for his portrayal of Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcomThat '70s Show. He also created, produced and hostedPunk'd, and played lead roles in the Hollywood films Dude, Where's My Car?,Just Married,The Butterfly Effect,The Guardian, andWhat Happens in Vegas. He is also the producer and co-creator of the supernatural TV showRoom 401and the reality TV showBeauty and the Geek. Kutcher currently co-stars in the hit CBS sitcomTwo and a Half Menas the character Walden Schmidt.

Early life Kutcher was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Larry Kutcher, a factory worker, and Diane (n e Finnegan), a Procter & [2] [3] [4] [5] Gamble employee. Kutcher was raised in a conservative Roman Catholic family, with an older sister, Tausha, and a fraternal twin, Michael, who had a heart transplant when the brothers were young children. Kutcher's [6] twin brother also has Cerebral Palsy and is a spokesperson for the advocacy organization Reaching for the Stars. 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. In a 2010 interview onLate Night with David Letterman, Kutcher claimed to be an all-state linebacker who averaged 15 tackles per game in high school. According to a former coach, however, Kutcher played sparingly as a wide receiver on a team that won only two [7] games in his entire high school football career. Kutcher also appeared in school plays. Kutcher's brother's cardiomyopathy caused his home life to become increasingly stressful. He has stated that "I didn't want to come home and find more bad news about my brother" and "kept myself so busy that I didn't allow myself to

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[8] feel". Kutcher admitted that during adolescence, he contemplated committing suicide. At thirteen, he attempted to [9] jump from a Cedar Rapids hospital balcony, with his father intervening in the incident. Kutcher's home life worsened as his parents divorced when he was sixteen. During his senior year, he broke into his high school at midnight with his cousin in an attempt to steal money; he was arrested leaving the scene. Kutcher was convicted of third-degree burglary and sentenced to three years' probation and 180 hours of community service. Kutcher stated that although the experience "straightened him out", he lost his girlfriend and anticipated college scholarships, and he [7] was ostracized at school and in his community. Kutcher enrolled at the University of Iowa in August 1996, where his planned major was biochemical engineering, [4] motivated by the desire to find a cure for his brother's heart ailment. At college, Kutcher was kicked out of his [10] apartment for being too "noisy" and "wild". Kutcher stated, "I thought I knew everything but I didn't have a clue. I was partying, and I woke up many mornings not knowing what I had done the night before. I played way too hard. [11] I am amazed I am not dead." To earn money for his tuition, Kutcher worked as a college summer hire in the [12] cereal department for the General Mills plant in Cedar Rapids, and sometimes donated blood for money. During his time at UI he was approached by a scout at a bar called "The Airliner" in Iowa City and was recruited to enter the "Fresh Faces of Iowa" modeling competition. After placing first, he dropped out of college and won a trip to New York City to the International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) Convention. Following his stay in New [10] York City, Kutcher returned to Cedar Rapids before relocating to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting.

Career

Modeling 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.

Television and film career

After some success in modeling, Kutcher moved to Los Angeles and, after his first audition, was cast as Michael Kelso in the television seriesThat '70s Show, which debuted in 1998 and ended in 2006. Kutcher was cast in a series of film roles; although he auditioned but was not cast for the role of Danny Walker inPearl Harbor(2001), (role went to Josh Hartnett), he starred in several comedy films, includingDude, Where's My Car?(2000),Just Married(2003), and Guess Who(2005). He briefly appeared in the 2003 family film, Cheaper By The Dozen, playing a self-obsessed actor. His 2004 film The Butterfly Effectwas an unusually dramatic role for Kutcher, playing a conflicted young man who fell in love with a girl named Kayleigh; the film received mixed to negative reviews, but was a [7] box-office success.

Kutcher withTwo and a Half Menco-star, Jon Cryer in September 2011

In 2003, Kutcher produced and starred in his own series on MTV'sPunk'das the host. The series involved various hidden camera tricks performed on celebrities. 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), andThe Real Wedding Crashersand the game showOpportunity Knocks. Many of his production credits, includingPunk'd, come through [13] Katalyst Films, a production company he runs with partner Jason Goldberg.

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Because of scheduling conflicts with the filming ofThe Guardian, Ashton was forced not to renew his contract for the eighth and final season ofThat 70s Show, although he did appear in the first four episodes of it (credited as a [7] special guest star) and returned for the series finale. [14] Kutcher produced and starred in the 2010 action comedy,Killers, in which he played a hitman. [15] In May 2011, Kutcher was announced as Charlie Sheen's replacement onTwo and a Half Mencontract. Kutcher's [16] is for one year and is 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 19 September, 2011. The Nielsen ratings company reported that figure was more than any other episode in the show's first eight seasons, when Sheen [17] [18] starred in it.

Other work Kutcher 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 Ashton's role was as Creative Director. He was spearheading a marketing campaign and producing viral videos to promote this service. Kutcher has also created an interactive arm of Katalyst called Katalyst Media with his partner from Katalyst Films, Jason Goldberg. Their first site is the animated cartoon Blah Girls. Ooma revamped its sales and marketing strategy with a new management team in the summer of 2008, replacing Ashton Kutcher as their creative director. Rich Buchanan, from Sling Media, became Ooma's Chief Marketing Officer. He currently advertises for Nikon cameras. In July 2011, Brazilian fashion label Colcci hired Kutcher and [19] Alessandra Ambrosio to feature in a steamy denim advertisement.

Personal life

Kutcher and Moore, September 2008

In 2003, Kutcher began dating actress Demi Moore. Moore and Kutcher married on September 24, 2005, in a private ceremony conducted by a Rabbi of the Kabbalah Center; the wedding was attended by about 150 close friends and family of the couple, including [20] Bruce Willis, Moore's ex-husband. In October 2010, Kutcher and Moore met with co-director of the Kabbalah Center Rabbi Yehuda [21] Berg in Israel. [7] Kutcher has invested in an Italian restaurant,Dolce(other owners include Danny Masterson and Wilmer Valderrama) and a Japanese-themed restaurant namedGeisha Houselocated in Atlanta,

Los Angeles and New York. [22] Kutcher is a self-described fiscal conservative and social liberal. He is a student of Kabbalah; hisNo Strings Attachedco-star, Natalie Portman, stated in 2011 that Kutcher "has taught me more about Judaism than I think I have [23] ever learned from anyone else". On September 17, 2008, Kutcher was named the assistant coach for the freshman football team at Harvard-Westlake [24] [25] School in Los Angeles. However, he was unable to return in 2009 because he was filmingSpread. [26] In February 2011, Kutcher sold his Hollywood Hills home, that he originally bought in 2004.

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Twitter presence [27] On April 16, 2009, Kutcher became the first user of Twitter to have more than 1,000,000 followers, beating CNN [28] [29] [30] in the "Million followers contest". Kutcher announced via Twitter that he would be donating $100,000 to a charity to fight malaria. However, there have been several reports that Twitter manipulated the contest's results by [31] preventing users from "unfollowing" Kutcher or CNN.

Main role

Supporting role

Voice

Main role

Main role

Dude, Where's My Car?

Just Shoot Me!

2003

Guess Who

Robot Chicken

Cheaper by the Dozen

Reindeer Games

Texas Rangers

Oliver Martin

A Lot Like Love

The Butterfly Effect

Fisher

Louie

2011

No Strings Attached

Jim Morrison

2010

2008

Killers

Evan Treborn

Nikki

Jack Fuller

Randy

Various

Hank

Personal Effects

2009

Spread

Valentine's Day

Elliot

What Happens in Vegas

Open Season

New Year's Eve

The Guardian

Down to You

Just Married

Filmography

Controversy In April 2011, Kutcher and wife Demi Moore began a public service announcement campaign claiming that "Real [32] Men" do not engage the services of child prostitutes who are the victims of human trafficking. Kutcher's claims that 100,000 to 300,000 American children were sold into sexual slavery were criticized by newspaper theVillage Voice, which gave evidence refuting the claims. Kutcher represented a study referring to minors 'at risk' for sexual exploitation as referring to children actually being prostituted. Experts estimate the true numbers to be in the [33] hundreds, not the hundreds of thousands. Kutcher reacted to the criticism by accusing theVillage Voiceof promoting child prostitution and using Twitter to request thatVillage Voiceadvertisers including American Airlines, [34] [35] Disney, and Domino's Pizza withdraw their advertising from the publication.

Walter

Spencer Aimes

Year

Film

1999

Coming Soon

Simon Green

Notes

Role

Supporting role

Dean Cassidy

1 episode

Tom Leezak

George Durham

Adam Franklin

Reed Bennet

Jesse Montgomery III

College Kid

Tom Stansfield

Main role

Main role

Jake Fischer

Voice

Lead role

Bobby

2006

2005

2004

My Boss's Daughter

2000

2001

My Boss's Daughter

5

5 episodes

The Butterfly Effect

Punk'd

Beauty and the Geek

Seasons 1–7 (Regular); Season 8 (Recurring) 180 episodes

Notes

Adventures in Hollyhood

1 episode

Voice

2001

Year

1998–2006

1 episode

Ashton Kutcher

2008

Main role season 9

2010

2005–2008

2003

Robot Chicken

Miss Guided

Various

Walden Schmidt

Two and a Half Men

Himself/Host

Dean Cassidy

Role

Just Shoot Me

Title

Michael Kelso

That 70's Show

The Beautiful Life

True Beauty

A Lot Like Love

Killers

The Real Wedding Crashers

Pop Fiction

Room 401

Opportunity Knocks

Beaux

48 episodes Executive producer

Executive producer

8 episodes

Executive producer

Co-producer

Executive producer

7 episodes

Executive producer/host

8 episodes

Executive producer

Executive producer

Executive producer

TV series (Executive producer)

8 episodes

Executive producer

Executive producer

2004

2003–2007

Year

You've Got a Friend

Miss Guided

Spread

2005

2009

2008–2009

Title

Episodes

1 episode

Executive producer

Executive producer

7 episodes

2007

Game Show in My Head

Grounded for Life

Cousin Scott

2008

2011–present

As a producer

2005

2003–2007

Notes

69 episodes

Television

2002

Punk'd

Ashton Kutcher

Awards a Young Artist Award a 1999–Best Performance in a TV Series - Young Ensemble forThat '70 Show (shared with Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Mila Kunis, Wilmer Valderrama and Danny Masterson) - Nominated Kid's Choice Awards a 2004–Favorite Movie Actor forJust Married,My Boss's DaughterandCheaper by the Dozen–Nominated a 2004–Favorite Television Actor forThat '70s ShowandPunk'd–Winner a 2005–Favorite TV Actor forThat '70s ShowandPunk'd–Nominated a 2006–Favorite TV Actor forThat '70s Show- Nominated a 2007–Favorite Voice in a Cartoon forOpen Season–Nominated People's Choice Awards a 2010–Favorite Web Celeb–Winner Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award

a 2000–Sierra Award Best Male Newcomer forDude, Where's My Car?–Nominated MTV Movie Awards

a 2001–Breakthrough Male Performance forDude, Where's My Car?–Nominated a 2011–Best Comedic Performance forNo Strings Attached–Nominated Teen Choice Awards

a 2003–Choice Reality Hunk forPunk'd-Winner a 2003–Choice TV Reality/Variety Host forPunk'd-Winner a 2003–Choice TV Actor - Comedy forThat '70s Show-Winner a 2004–Choice TV Personality -Winner a 2004–Choice Reality/Variety TV Star - Male forPunk'd-Winner a 2004–Choice TV Actor - Comedy forThat '70s Show-Winner a 2004–Choice Movie Hissy Fit forCheaper by the Dozen- Nominated a 2004–Choice Movie LiplockCheaper by the Dozen (shared with Piper Perabo) - Nominated 2005–Choice: TV Male Personality forPunk'd–Winner 2005–Choice TV Actor: Comedy forThat '70s Show-Winner 2005–Choice Movie Actor: Comedy forGuess WhoandA Lot Like Love- Nominated 2005–Choice Movie Rockstar Moment forA Lot Like Love-Winner 2007–Choice Movie Actor: Drama forThe Guardian- Nominated 2008–Choice: Movie Actor Romantic Comedy forWhat Happens In Vegas–Winner 2010–Choice: Movie Actor Romantic Comedy forValentine's Day–Winner 2011–Choice: Movie Actor Romantic Comedy forNo Strings Attached–Winner Golden Raspberry Awards a 2003 - Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple forJust Married (shared with Brittany Murphy) andMy boss's Daughter (shared with Tara Reid) - Nominated a 2004 - Razzie Award for Worst Actor forCheaper By The Dozen,Just MarriedandMy Boss's Daughter- Nominated a 2010 - Razzie Award for Worst Actor forKillers–Winner

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