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Yancy Butler
Yancy Butler attending the Motor City Comic Con on May 16, 2009.
Born	Yancy Victoria Butler July 2, 1970 (1970-07-02) (age 39) Greenwich Village, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1992–present

Yancy Victoria Butler (born July 2, 1970; Greenwich Village, New York City) is an American television and movie actress. She is the daughter of Joe Butler, drummer for the sixties rock group The Lovin' Spoonful. As an actress she's best known for her role as Det. Sara "Pez" Pezzini on the TNT supernatural drama Witchblade.

Contents 1 Career 2 Personal life 3 Awards 4 TV series 5 Filmography 6 References

Career

Butler's first major role was in the television series Mann & Machine in 1992, in which she played an android police officer partnered with a human detective. The series was set in Los Angeles in the near future. The series was co-created by Dick Wolf, of Law & Order fame. A year later, she starred in her second series, South Beach also for Dick Wolf, in which she played a con artist and thief who made a deal with the federal government: in exchange for their wiping of her criminal record, she performs certain tasks for them. Seven episodes of this series were produced, but only six were broadcast.

Butler's first film appearance, which she also starred in, was John Woo's 1993 film, Hard Target, featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme. She then starred in the 1994 film Drop Zone, featuring Wesley Snipes. In 1995, she starred as Corinne the dancer in the film Let It Be Me. Butler was cast as a series regular in the television series Brooklyn South playing Anne-Marie Kersey, a Brooklyn policewoman, which ran for a full season in 1997–1998.

Butler starred in the made-for-television film Witchblade (2000) and the subsequent television series, based on an adaptation from the comic book (also titled Witchblade), which ran for two seasons on the Turner Network Television network (TNT) for a total of 23 episodes. The series has a "cult television" following, and was ranked seventh in the Top 10 Basic Cable Dramas for 2002 (Multichannel News, February 24, 2003). The show's cancellation was announced after the second season in September 2002.¹

In 2005, Yancy starred in the film Bloodlines, alongside Lou Diamond Phillips.²

In 2006, Butler starred in the American movie Striking Range. and in 2007, she appeared in thirteen episodes of the television soap opera As The World Turns, as character "Ava Jenkins."³

Yancy has been confirmed to appear in Tales of the Ancient Empire,⁴ the follow-up to The Sword and the Sorcerer.⁵ Butler will appear in another comic book adaptation, the Kick-Ass, based on the Marvel/Icon Comics series by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr.⁶

Personal life

Fourteen months after the cancellation of the Witchblade series, Butler was arrested and charged with disorderly intoxication. She was ordered to enter rehabilitation at the Renaissance Institute in Boca Raton by a South Florida court.⁷

On February 2, 2007, Butler's former boyfriend was arraigned in Litchfield, CT on charges stemming from a stalking complaint filed by the actress.⁸⁹.

On March 13, 2007, Butler was charged with driving under the influence and failure to drive in the established lane after she crashed her Saab 900 into a wire guard rail in Sharon, Connecticut¹⁰. The actress was released on a $500 bail and ordered to appear in Bantam Superior Court on March 26, 2007.¹¹¹²¹³ On March 28, Bantam Superior Court Judge Richard Marano issued a re-arrest order for Butler because she had twice not appeared at scheduled court dates. The judge directed that the warrant not be served until April 2 to give Butler a chance to explain why she was not in court.¹⁴

Awards

On June 10, 2002, Butler won a Saturn Award for Best Actress in a Television Series, at the 29th Annual Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Awards ceremony, for her performances in Witchblade.¹⁵

TV series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Mann & Machine	Sgt. Eve Edison
1993	South Beach	Kate Patrick
1997-1998	Brooklyn South	Officer Anne-Marie Kersey
2001-2002	Witchblade	Detective Sara Pezzini
2007	As The World Turns	Ava Jenkins

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1993	Hard Target	Natasha Binder
	The Hit List	Jordan Henning	TV Movie
1994	Drop Zone	Jessie Crossman
1995	Let It Be Me	Corinne
1996	Fast Money	Francesca March
1997	Ravager	Avedon Hammond
	The Ex	Deidre Kenyon
1999	The Witness Files	Sandy Dickinson
2004	"The Last Letter"	Ms. Toney / Alicia Cromwell
2006	Basilisk: The Serpent King	Hannah Carmelina Santorini Frankman
	Striking Range	Emily Johanson
	Double Cross	Kathy Swanson
2008	Vote and Die: Liszt for President	Ann Barklely
2010	Lake Placid 3
	Kick-Ass	Angie D'Amico

References