Christopher Ashton Kutcher (born February 7, 1978) is an American actor and model born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, of Irish and Native American heritage. His height is 6' 2". Ashton has an older sister, Tausha and fraternal twin, Michael, who is younger by 5 minutes. Michael was born with cardiomyopathy, a deadly disease that eats away at the heart's muscles; he was given about six hours to live, but survived with a transplant.
At one time Kutcher had a job sweeping floors at a General Mills plant. He once was so poor, he donated blood for money. He was kicked out of the school play because he was caught drinking beer. He got arrested at 18 years old for breaking into his school, Clear Creek Amana High School, with a friend and stealing money from a vending machine. Because his probation prohibited him from leaving Iowa, Kutcher majored in biochemical engineering and was a member of the Delta Chi fraternity at the University of Iowa in 1997 but dropped out to pursue modeling.
Kutcher began his career as a model and later moved to television. He was discovered in a bar in Iowa City, Iowa. A month before he was discovered, he had planned to move to Hollywood, but was asked to go back to college by his mother. Kutcher achieved stardom on the Fox television series That '70s Show and has gone on to star in his own MTV hidden camera show Punk'd.
Kutcher has starred in the films Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), Just Married (2003), The Butterfly Effect (2004) and Guess Who (2005). He also auditioned for the role of Danny Walker in Pearl Harbor, but lost out to Josh Hartnett.
Despite the significant difference in their ages (15 years), on September 24, 2005 Kutcher and actress Demi Moore got married in a lavish ceremony in Los Angeles, California.
In September 2005, a website called www.ashtonhacked.com surfaced. On it is a series of telephone answering machine messages that were allegedly stolen from Kutcher's own machine by two men who continually dialed into it until they correctly guessed his passcode. These included a series of irate messages from Bruce Willis expressing rage at Kutcher for not showing up for a planned appointment. It turned out to have been an elaborate prank arranged by Kutcher in conjunction with his show Punk'd. Those who called into the number that was posted and left their own messages will potentially be played on the program.
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