Yancy Butler was born July 2, 1970 in Greenwich Village, New York City and majored in liberal arts at the prestigious Sarah Lawrence College. Her first big break came in 1992, when she was in the television series Mann & Machine, where she played the role of an android police officer that was partnered with a human detective. The next year, she starred in her second TV show, South Beach, where she was featured as a con artist who has an unsteady deal as an informant for the federal government. From 1995 to 1998, she acted in both the film Let It Be Me and the TV show Brooklyn South.

Yancy Butlers first TV acting job to last more than one season was in Witchblade, where she starred as the main character. The show got rave reviews from critics and earned a cult following, but was still cancelled after only two seasons. It has been widely speculated that the show was cancelled as a direct result of her problems with alcohol.

About a year after Witchblade was cancelled, Yancy Butler was found wandering around in traffic drunk, and was subsequently arrested and charged with disorderly intoxication. The judge in the case ordered her to go into treatment, and she went to rehab at the Renaissance Institute in Boca Raton, Florida. After all this went down, it became public knowledge that the reason Yancy Butler was an alcoholic was due largely in part to her injuries from acting combined with problems with her family.

Unfortunately, it does not seem like the rehab treatment did much for poor Yancy Butler, as she was arrested again in 2007. On February 11, 2007, Yancy Butler was arrested at her house on the charge of disorderly conduct, after she had called the police to complain that her boyfriend would not give her the keys to her car so that she could leave. Once police arrived and interviewed her boyfriend, he told them that Yancy Butler had been drinking, as well as doing drugs, and he did not want her to drive in the condition she was in.

After she was arrested, Yancy Butler was released on bail and ordered by the judge hearing her case to attend at least seven Alcoholics Anonymous meetings a month until her next court appearance. A week after her next court appearance, on March 13, 2007, Yancy Butler was arrested for driving under the influence.

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