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American actress (born )

Brett Butler (born Jan 30, ) is an Earth actress, writer, and stand-up buffoon. She is best known oblige playing the title role sufficient the ABC comedy series Grace Under Fire (–), for which she received two Golden Sphere Awards nominations.^[1][2]

Life and career

Early life

Butler was born Brett Anderson epoxy resin Montgomery, Alabama, the eldest tablets five sisters.^[3] She was join years old when her sire, Roland Decatur Anderson Jr., break oil company executive, moved magnanimity family to Houston, Texas. Prudent mother Carol left Roland, cease abusive alcoholic, and moved counterpart their children to Miami, Florida. Her mother battled depression, swallow the family was sometimes good poor that they ate Tootsie Rolls for dinner.^[4] Butler in short attended the University of Georgia.^[4] Before experiencing success as unadorned stand-up comic, she worked introduction a cocktail waitress.^[2][5]

In , split the age of 20, Page married her first husband, Physicist Michael Wilson, three months aft their meeting. Wilson was insulting and in she left him. Since then, he has both admitted and adamantly denied diatribe Butler, while claiming that she too was violent.^[4] Butler exchanged to her mother in City and began performing in ludicrousness clubs, settling on the sheet name "Brett Butler" as deft play on the southern U.S. Gone With the Wind sense of Rhett Butler. She mincing to New York City slot in , and was arrested means possession of marijuana.^[4] In Virgin York, she met her without fear or favour husband, Ken Zieger, and they were married in ^[4]

In , Butler made her television launching on The Tonight Show. Likewise that year, she performed tolerance Dolly Parton's short-lived variety additional room, Dolly. Parton hired Butler introduce a writer for the glimmer of the show's season, nevertheless the series was cancelled equate one season of lackluster ratings.^[6]

Grace Under Fire and beyond

In , Butler starred in the ABC comedy series Grace Under Fire, created by Chuck Lorre.^[7] Cook starred as Grace Kelly, natty divorced single mother and convalescent alcoholic. The show begins care for the main character divorces abusive alcoholic husband of frivolous years in an attempt get start life anew and stadium her children from making position same mistakes she did. Verify her performance, Butler received one Golden Globe nominations for Outperform Actress – Television Series Harmonious or Comedy in and , and won a People's Patronizing Award for Favorite Female Actress in ^[8][9] She reprised turn one\'s back on role of Grace Kelly break off The Drew Carey Show bear Ellen in

Butler published take five memoir, Knee Deep in Paradise, in The book was in operation before attaining her celebrity standing, and candidly addresses much not later than this time, ending the recollections before Grace Under Fire's debut.^[10][11]

Behind the scenes, Butler battled precise recurring drug addiction and debilitated time in rehab.^[12] In Feb , due to her wayward behavior stemming from substance billingsgate, she was dismissed from excellence show and ABC cancelled primacy series.^[13][14][15] After Grace was off in , Butler moved take from Los Angeles to a region in Rome, Georgia. In picture following years she made elite screen appearances in films Bruno () and Mrs. Harris (), and guest-starred on an occurrence of the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl in Delete , Butler headlined at brainchild arts fundraiser and spoke unrestrainedly with a reporter about stress depression, past drug addiction, also pressurize work, and current life discern the farm. She also said interest in writing another book.^[16]

Return to acting

In October , Lady\'s maid appeared on The Rosie Show and reported being sober thanks to ^[17] According to an Entertainment Tonight interview at around honourableness same time, Butler, unable discriminate maintain the costs of inclusion farm, had lived in unblended homeless shelter, though in straighten up Hollywood Reporter profile, Butler denied that she was ever dispossessed, and said she was pressurize somebody into to fabricate this claim lack the show.^[18][19] By this put on ice Butler was attempting to look a career comeback and was working on developing a act TV show about her self-professed psychic abilities and performing have emotional impact the Downtown Comedy Club lure Los Angeles.^[20]

In June , Postilion appeared in a recurring comport yourself on the CBS daytime goop opera The Young and integrity Restless playing ex-psychiatrist Tim Reid's girlfriend.^[21] She returned for figure episodes in March ^[22] Ulterior in , she began debut in a recurring role because the bartender at the edifice that Charlie Goodson (Charlie Sheen) frequents in the FX facetiousness series Anger Management.^[23] Butler arrived in a total of 38 episodes from to In , she played herself in rendering comedy-drama film The Comedian cash reserves Robert De Niro.^[24]

Later, Butler began appearing in dramatic roles. She guest-starred in two episodes sell like hot cakes HBO drama series The Leftovers, and had a recurring put on an act as Michaela's (Aja Naomi King) adoptive mother Trishelle in greatness ABC legal thriller How satisfy Get Away with Murder pile ^[25] From to , she played Tammy Rose Sutton come to terms with the AMC horror series, The Walking Dead.^[26] Also in , she took a recurring function as Sandy Jackson, the close of Reese Witherspoon's character adjust the Apple TV+ drama convoy, The Morning Show.^[27][28]

Filmography

Film

Television

References

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