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'''Ashton Kutcher''' (born '''Christopher Ashton Kutcher''' on February 7 1978) is an American actor, former male fashion model and television producer.
Biography
Early life
Kutcher was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Larry Kutcher (an employee of General Mills) and Diane Finnegan (who worked for Procter & Gamble). He is of Irish descent on his mother's side,
[family tree can be viewed at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=geolarson2&id=I222129] and has distant Native American and Bohemian ancestry on his father's side. Kutcher has an older sister, Tausha, and a fraternal twin, Michael, who suffers from cerebral palsy and had a heart transplant at age thirteen immediately after cardiomyopathy-induced seizure. Kutcher desperately considered committing suicide so that Michael could have his heart, but a doctor rushed in and announced that a woman died in Georgia in a car accident, and the operation successfully went forward.
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. Kutcher, whose brother's condition caused much stress in the family and eventually his parents' divorce, said in ''USA Weekend'', "I saw some stuff I probably shouldn't have seen, and I didn't want to be involved, and I didn't want to have to take a side. I didn't want to come home and find more bad news about my brother ... I kept myself so busy that I didn't allow myself to feel." in 1994 Chris went to Orlando, Florida to landed the Nickelodeon sketch comedy ''All That'' and left the show in 1996 however, after left the show "All That" He attended Clear Creek-Amana high school, where he was an avid competitor in soccer and wrestling, and took part in every 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 as "Michael Kelso" in the television series ''
That '70s Show'', which became a long-running success. He left the show (along
