Yancy Victoria Butler (born July 2, 1970) is an American actress. 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 Victoria 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.Butler'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. The series
was set in Los Angeles in the near future. The series was co-created
by Dick Wolf. 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.Butler's first film
appearance was a small supporting role in the 1979 slasher film Savage
Weekend. Her next film appearance was a starring role in John Woo's
1993 film, Hard Target. She then starred in the 1994 film Drop Zone.
In 1995, she starred as Corinne the dancer in the film Let It Be Me.
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.
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 Victoria 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.Butler'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. The series
was set in Los Angeles in the near future. The series was co-created
by Dick Wolf. 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.Butler's first film
appearance was a small supporting role in the 1979 slasher film Savage
Weekend. Her next film appearance was a starring role in John Woo's
1993 film, Hard Target. She then starred in the 1994 film Drop Zone.
In 1995, she starred as Corinne the dancer in the film Let It Be Me.
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.
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