Two days prior to the DUI offense, Butler allegedly phoned 911 after a fight with her boyfriend, 53-year-old Earl Ward Jr. 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. On March 28, Bantam Superior Court Judge Richard Marano issued a rearrest order for Butler because she had twice not appeared at scheduled court dates. The actress was released on a $500 bail and ordered to appear in Bantam, Connecticut Superior Court on March 26, 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, Connecticut. At first, she said she'd been kicked out of a halfway house, but later said she was still in one, the report said. Butler told police that she was an alcoholic who was on medication, according to a Delray Beach Police report. She subsequently completed a stint in rehab and attended counseling sessions.įourteen months after the cancellation of the Witchblade series, in November 2003, Butler was taken into custody in Delray Beach, Florida, for disorderly intoxication and sentenced to a substance-abuse treatment program after police there found her stumbling in and out of traffic. She was charged with criminal contempt for violating an order of protection and two counts of harassment. On January 2, 2003, Butler was arrested after getting into a fight with her father, Joe Butler, at her uncle's Long Island home. She appeared in a small role in another comic-book adaptation, the film version of Kick-Ass. Butler, however, did not appear in the film. On January 24, 2012, Tales of an Ancient Empire was released on DVD. She was confirmed to appear in Tales of an Ancient Empire, the follow-up to The Sword and the Sorcerer. In 2007, she appeared in 13 episodes of the television soap opera As the World Turns, as Ava Jenkins. In 2006, she starred in the film Striking Range. In 2005, Yancy starred in the film Bloodlines. The show's cancellation was announced after the second season in September 2002. The series has a cult following, and was ranked seventh in the Top 10 Basic Cable Dramas for 2002. Butler was cast as a series regular in the CBS television series Brooklyn South playing Anne-Marie Kersey, a Brooklyn policewoman, which ran for one season from 1997 to 1998.īutler starred in the television film Witchblade (2000) and the subsequent television series, adapted from the ongoing comic book of the same title the series ran for two seasons on the Turner Network Television network for a total of 23 episodes. In 1995, she starred as Corinne the dancer in the film Let It Be Me. She then starred in the 1994 film Drop Zone. Her next film appearance was a starring role in John Woo's 1993 film, Hard Target. A year later, she starred in her second series, South Beach, 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.īutler's first film appearance was a small supporting role in the 1979 slasher film Savage Weekend. The series was set in Los Angeles in the near future. Careerīutler'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. Butler was born in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, the daughter of Leslie Vega, a theatre company manager, and Joe Butler, the drummer and vocalist for the 1960s rock group The Lovin' Spoonful.
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