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Christopher Ashton Kutcher (born February 7 1978) is an American actor.

Early life

Kutcher was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Larry Kutcher (an employee of General Mills) and Diane (who worked for Procter & Gamble); his ancestry is mostly Irish American, as well as distantly Native American and Bohemian (the origin of his surname). Kutcher has an older sister, Tausha and a fraternal twin, Michael, who is younger by five minutes. Michael suffered from cerebral palsy in his childhood and had a heart transplant in his early teens.

Kutcher grew up on a farm in rural Homestead, Iowa. As a teen, he worked as a floor sweeper for a General Mills plant, and once donated blood for money. He attended Clear Creek-Amana high school, where he was an avid competitor in soccer and wrestling, and took part in every theatre play the school staged. He was expelled from the school for underaged drinking and was arrested at age 18 for breaking into the school with a friend and stealing money from a vending machine. Kutcher majored in biochemical engineering and was a member of the Delta Chi fraternity at the University of Iowa. In 1997, he dropped out in order to pursue a modeling career, some of which involved working in underwear ads. Because there were already several well-known models named Chris, Kutcher was asked to use "Ashton" as his professional name.

Career as actor

After some success in modeling, Kutcher had planned to move to Hollywood, but was asked to return to college by his mother. However, a month later, he was discovered in a bar in Iowa City, Iowa and cast in the television series That '70s Show, which became a success. Kutcher achieved some stardom and was cast in a series of film roles; although he auditioned but was not cast for the role of Danny Walker in Pearl Harbor (2001), he starred in a few financially successful comedic films, including Dude, Where's My Car?
(2000), Just Married
(2003) and Guess Who
(2005). His 2004 film, The Butterfly Effect
, was an unusually dramatic role for Kutcher and was also deemed a box office success.

Kutcher is currently filming The Guardian
, a thriller co-starring Kevin Costner, in which the two play Coast Guard rescue swimmers.

Career as producer

In 2003, Kutcher used his status as a television star to produce and star in his own series on MTV, Punk'd. The series involves various hidden camera tricks performed on celebrities; the series has sometimes led to controversy, as when the New York Yankees' third-baseman Alex Rodriguez and the actor Michael Vartan, both victims of the show's pranks, threatened to sue Kutcher. In order to avoid the lawsuits, the videotape of Rodriguez's prank was destroyed without any release and Vartan's prank has not been aired.

Kutcher is also the producer of the reality-television show Beauty and the Geek, which began in 2005.

Private life

Kutcher has dated a variety of celebrities, including actresses January Jones (from 1998 to 2001), Ashley Scott (from 2001 to 2002), Monet Mazur (2002) and his Just Married
co-star, Brittany Murphy, whom he dated from 2002 to 2003. Following his break-up with Murphy in mid 2003, Kutcher began dating actress Demi Moore, whom he married on September 24, 2005 in a lavish ceremony in Los Angeles, California.

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