Brett Butler is an actor, writer, and standup comedian from the United States. She is best known for her role as Grace in the ABC comedy series Grace Under Fire (1993–98), for which she was nominated for two Golden Globes.
Butler was born Brett Anderson, the eldest of five sisters, in Montgomery, Alabama. When she was four years old, her father, an oil industry CEO named Roland Decatur Anderson Jr., relocated to Houston, Texas. Carol came to Miami, Florida, with her children after leaving Roland, an abusive drinker. Her mother suffered from depression, and the family would sometimes eat Tootsie Rolls for dinner. Butler attended the University of Georgia for a short time. She worked as a cocktail server before achieving fame as a standup comedian.
Butler married her first husband, Charles Michael Wilson, three months after meeting him when she was 20 years old. Wilson was abusive, and she left him in 1981. Since then, he has acknowledged and categorically denied beating Butler, alleging that she was also aggressive. Butler moved back to Miami with her mother and began performing at comedy clubs. In 1984, she moved to New York City and was arrested for marijuana possession. Butler met her second husband, Ken Zieger, in New York, and they married in 1987. She did not end up having any children with either of her former husbands.
The first entertainment experience that was remarkable for Brett Butler was in the variety series called Dolly. The series featured the famous country singer Dolly Parton. Parton decided to hire Butler to be the writer for the remainder of the season, but the series was eventually canceled.
Brett Butler became the star for the ABC television show called Grace Under Fire. The show ran for threes from 1993 until 1996. During this show, she was battling drug addiction and spent some time in rehab.
Butler published memoirs under the name Knee Deep in Paradise in the year 1996. The book was written before she attained celebrity status, and she addressed much of the time frame, which ended in the autobiography. It was before the debut of her television show, Grade Under Fire. In 1998, because of erratic behavior that stemmed from her substance abuse, she got dismissed, while ABC decided to cancel this show.
After the cancelation of Grace Under Fire, Butler decided to go to Los Angeles, where she started living with over 15 pets. In 2008, Butler was in the headlines for the arts fundraiser, and she spoke freely to the reporter on her past drug addiction, depression, and her current life at the farm. She also said that she was interested in writing another book.
In the year 2011, Butler appeared in the show, The Rosie Show. She claimed she had been sober ever since the year 1998. It was rumored that her money supply had finished, and Butler started to live in a homeless shelter to cover herself from humiliation. This is when she wanted to make a comeback in her career and wanted to work on the reality TV show and her psychic abilities that she said she had.
She was found performing in a Downtown comedy club in Los Angeles. Since 2012, she appeared in the recurring role on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, where she played a girlfriend to an ex-psychiatric.
Butler got paid 100,000 as a salary for Grace Under Fire, and now she has a net worth of 15 million dollars.
| Birth Date: | 30 Jan, 1958 |
| Age: | 62 yrs |
| Occupations: | Television actor Film actor Screenwriter Writer |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Montgomery |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | American actress |
| Net Worth 2021: | 10 million |
