Ashton Kutcher
It doesn’t happen to many actors that their first role is also their breakthrough role, but for Ashton Kutcher, his first role as Michael Kelso in That 70’s Show was also the role that placed him on the Hollywood map. But Ashton Kutcher didn’t initially intend on being an actor; rather, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in modeling. To earn money for college tuition, Kutcher worked in a General Mills factory in the cereal department, which was anything but glamorous.
He embarked on his short, but fruitful, modeling career when a modeling scout discovered him at a college bar in Iowa and encouraged him to enter a modeling contest. Kutcher won first place, which granted him a trip to the International Modeling and Talent Association in New York. That’s how Kutcher was signed with New York’s Next Modeling Agency and became a model for Calvin Klein, touring in Europe and appearing in commercials.