Ashton Kutcher

Kutcher married established actress Demi Moore in 2005, after being in a relationship for two years. She was senior to him by fifteen years. They separated after five years of married life.

In 2009, he, along with his wife, established DNA Foundation, later known as Thorn, which raises the issues of sexual exploitation of children and the sudden increase of child pornography.

This actor is known for his entrepreneurial skills and has successfully invested in technology start-ups. Some of his investments are in Skype, Foursquare, Airbnb, Oath and Fab.com.

Kutcher was born in Iowa to Diane and Larry M Kutcher on February 7, 1978. He was raised in a conservative Roman Catholic family.

He has two siblings - his older sister, Tausha, and a fraternal twin, Michael. His brother’s heart condition and cerebral palsy traumatised his childhood. He went through emotional turmoil till his brother’s heart transplant.

He attended Washington High School till his freshman year. As his family moved to Homestead, he continued in Clear Creek Amana High School. His interest in acting started with school plays.

His home life was not stable as his parents divorced when he was sixteen. He fell in bad company and was convicted of third degree burglary, when still in high school.

The probation and community service turned him, but he realised he had ruined his chances of college scholarships. He was affected by the ostracism at school and community, and loss of his girlfriend.

His brother’s ailment was an emotional influence on him, so much so that he joined University of Iowa in 1996, to major in biochemical engineering to find a cure for his brother’s condition.

He was recruited to enter the ‘Fresh Faces of Iowa’ modelling competition by a model scout during his university days. He was placed first in the competition and with that he quit college.

His exposure in IMTA and participation in modelling competitions opened up modelling opportunities for him in Paris and Milan. In 1998, he signed up with Next and modelled for Calvin Klein.

He moved to Los Angeles, and was cast as Michael Kelso in his first television series ‘That ‘70s Show’ successfully till 2006. He also began auditioning for movies during this period.

He became popular for his comedy acts. He starred in several comedy films like ‘Dude, Where’s My Car?’, ‘Just Married’ and ‘Guess Who’. These movies were released one after the other after 2000.

He worked as an executive producer of reality television shows Beauty and the Geek, Adventures in Hollywood, The Real Wedding Crashers, and the game show, Opportunity Knocks.

His foray into television saw him working in sitcoms. Kutcher currently stars as Walden Schmidt on the CBS sitcom, Two and a Half Men, since Charlie Sheen's departure from the show, in 2011.

In 2013, Lenovo declared they had hired Kutcher as a Product engineer. In this new role, he would market the Yoga line of tablets by providing inputs in design, specifications software, and usage scenarios.