Overcoming Adversity With Yancy Butler

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04/06/21 • 35 min

Yancy Victoria Butler is an actress and producer. She is known for her roles as Natasha Binder in the 1993 film Hard Target, Jess Crossman in Drop Zone, and Detective Sara Pezzini on the TNT supernatural drama series Witchblade.
Yancy is the daughter of Leslie Vega, a theatre company manager, and Joe Butler, the drummer and vocalist for the 1960s rock group The Lovin' Spoonful.
Butler's first major role was in the television series Mann & Machine in which she played an android police officer partnered with a human detective. The series was set in Los Angeles in the near future.

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