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Yahoo! Shine - Found Oct. 14, 2008
... and jordana brewster are hot too but they both got brown eyes, Megan Fox, Nadia Bjorlin (REDLINE) Yancy Butler (witchblade) GOOGLE them you'll...
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Posted on October 14, 2008, 1:11 pm

Free episode of Witchblade anime series on iTunes

Macworld - Found Oct. 15, 2008
It was later turned into a live-action TV series starring Yancy Butler. The anime series is based in a futuristic Japan.
First Witchblade Anime Episode for Free on U.S. iTunes - Anime News Network
New Witchblade On iTunes - SCIFI.COM
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Posted on October 15, 2008, 10:48 am

Race Matters: Is Hollywood Truly Color Blind When It Comes To ...

Starpulse - Found Sep. 29, 2008
Moynahan in 2004's I Robot (ironically set in the future) and Wesley Snipes, who got no love from Yancy Butler in Drop Zone (1994). No love...

Posted on September 29, 2008, 11:31 am

Television movies for the week of Sept. 14 (Today)

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Found Sep. 14, 2008
(R) (2:30) AMC: Tue. 12:30 P.M., Wed. 8:45 A.M. (CC) ? Basilisk: The Serpent King '06. Yancy Butler.

Posted on September 14, 2008, 6:50 am

What's on TV... on DVD? (Summer, 2008 Edition)

Big Picture Big Sound - Found Aug. 31, 2008
(Could it be, on any channel other than Skinemax?) Even so, the lovely Yancy Butler battled evil for an impressive two seasons, all 23...

Posted on August 31, 2008, 1:42 pm

DVD Review of Witchblade the Complete Series

Mania - Found Aug. 24, 2008
... did reasonably well in the ratings for TNT. Its cancellation had less to do with ratings and more to the difficulties of star Yancy Butler.

Posted on August 24, 2008, 3:41 am

Yancy Butler Biography

Yancy Butler
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Yancy Victoria Butler

Yancy Butler attending the Big Apple Convention on June 8, 2008.
Born July 2, 1970 (1970-07-02) (age 38)
Greenwich Village, New York, U.S.
Occupation Film, television actress

Yancy Victoria Butler (born July 2, 1970 in 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.

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Biography

Early life

After growing up in Greenwich Village, New York City, she went on to study at Sarah Lawrence College in 1987, where she majored in liberal arts.

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 broadcasted.
  • Butler starred in the television series Witchblade, 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 had 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 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

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.6 Later, it was discovered she had injuries from acting and family problems which led to her alcohol abuse.

On February 2nd of 2007, Butler's former boyfriend was arraigned in Litchfield, CT on charges stemming from a stalking complaint filed by the actress. 78.

On February 11, 2007, Butler was arrested in her home on the charge of disorderly conduct. Butler had called police to her home to complain that her current boyfriend would not give her the keys to her car or let her leave. Her boyfriend told police that she had been drinking and doing drugs and he did not want her driving. She also allegedly threw things at him because he would not let her leave. Butler was released on $500 bail and ordered by a judge to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings seven times a week until her next court appearance on March 8, 2007. 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, Connecticut9. The actress was released on a $500 bail and ordered to appear in Bantam Superior Court on March 26, 2007.10 11 12 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 wasn't in court.13

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.14

TV series

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

Filmography

Year Work Rôle Notes and Awards
2008 Vote and Die: Liszt for President Ann Barklely
2006 Striking Range Emily Johanson
2006 Double Cross Herself (host)
2004 "The Last Letter" Ms. Toney / Alicia Cromwell
1999 The Witness Files Sandy Dickinson
1997 The Ex Deidre Kenyon
1996 Fast Money Francesca
1995 Let It Be Me Corinne
1994 Drop Zone Jessie Crossman
1993 Hard Target Natasha Binder
1993 The Hit List Jordan Henning TV Movie

References

  1. ^ Josh, Grossberg (2002-09-05). ""Witchblade" Sliced by TNT". E! Online. Retrieved on 2006-12-29.
  2. ^ Bloodlines Movie, from Serendipitous Films
  3. ^ Yancy Butler Overview, from The Internet Movie Database
  4. ^ Yancy Butler Joins the Family in Tales | Horror Movie, DVD, & Book Reviews, News, Interviews at Dread Central
  5. ^ A Few More Details On That SWORD AND THE SORCERER Follow-Up We've Been Hearing About!! - Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news
  6. ^ Josh, Grossberg (2003-11-24). ""Witchblade" Star Ordered to Rehab". E! Online. Retrieved on 2006-12-29.
  7. ^ 'Witchblade' star says ex-boyfriend stalked her 2/1/2007 10:37 AM ET USA Today
  8. ^ 'Witchblade' Actress Arrested At Sharon Home After Incident LITCHFIELD-Turner Network Television's "Witchblade" star Yancy Butler, who last week accused an ex-boyfriend of stalking her, was ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous Tuesday in Bantam Superior Court after State Police arrested her last Sunday in Sharon on a disorderly conduct charge. By: Tracy Kennedy 02/15/2007 Litchfield County Times
  9. ^ Actress Yancy Butler arrested for DUI USA Today 3/15/2007 9:13 AM
  10. ^ ""Actress Yancy Butler Arrested for DUI"". ABC News Online (2007-03-15). Retrieved on 2007-03-15.
  11. ^ SUNDIE, BRYAN (2007-02-14). ""SHARON: Actress charged in domestic violence case"". Waterbury Republican American. Retrieved on 2007-03-15.
  12. ^ ""A no-show in court, `Witchblade' star facing another arrest"". The Associated Press via The Advocate (2007-03-28). Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  13. ^ Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, Saturn Award Recipients, 2002, from The Internet Movie Database

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