1. Kerry Butler is an American actress and singer known primarily for her work in theater.
48 Facts About Kerry Butler
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Kerry Butler graduated from Ithaca College in 1992, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in musical theatre.
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Kerry Butler made her Broadway debut in 1993 in the role of Miss Jones in the musical Blood Brothers, where she understudied the role of Linda.
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In 1995, Kerry Butler originated the role of Belle for the Toronto production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and she was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Leading Actress for her performance.
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Kerry Butler eventually transferred to Broadway as Belle, and, after playing the role for over two years, she left the musical in September 1997 and was replaced by Debbie Gibson.
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Kerry Butler then moved over to Les Miserables to play Eponine Thenardier.
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In 2001 Kerry Butler played the love interest Shelley Parker in the acclaimed Off-Broadway original musical Bat Boy: The Musical.
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In February 2002, Kerry Butler was cast as Penny Pingleton in Hairspray, the musical version of the John Waters 1988 film of the same name.
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In March 2002 Kerry Butler appeared on the TV show Sesame Street as Ms.
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Kerry Butler revisited her long-lost childhood Brooklyn accent to play Audrey, the love interest with a sadistic dentist boyfriend Dr Orin Scrivello and a heart of gold.
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Kerry Butler played Isabel, a mother made miserable by the rebelliousness of her son as well as her unhappy marriage.
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Kerry Butler portrayed the manipulative heiress and recovering alcoholic Claudia Reston on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live from January 2006 until January 2007, when her character was written off the show.
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From May 2007 through September 2008, Kerry Butler returned to the Broadway stage to star in the new musical Xanadu, based on the 1980 roller-disco film starring Olivia Newton-John.
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Kerry Butler mastered roller skating for the role and spent nearly the duration of the show on skates.
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In February and March 2008, Kerry Butler appeared as Reese, the thieving assistant to fashion designer Victory Ford, in the first season of the television series Lipstick Jungle on NBC.
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In May 2008, Kerry Butler released her first solo album on the PS Classics label.
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Kerry Butler played Brenda Strong, the Southern ingenue who falls in love with the con artist Frank Abagnale, Jr.
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In September 2009, Kerry Butler began a six-month engagement in the Broadway musical Rock of Ages, playing six performances a week.
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Kerry Butler played the lead role of Sherrie Christian, a small-town girl who moves to the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming an actress.
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In October 2010, Kerry Butler starred in the New York Musical Theatre Festival production of Pandora's Box, playing the title role of Pandora, a slightly naive suburban housewife whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
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Kerry Butler appeared as Mary Jo Clarkson, an Islamist terrorist, on the CBS television show Blue Bloods.
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From March to September 2011, Kerry Butler reprised the role of Brenda Strong in the Broadway production of Catch Me if You Can at the Neil Simon Theatre, the same Broadway theatre where Hairspray played.
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Also in September 2011, Kerry Butler appeared on the series finale of FX's Rescue Me as Marsha, an overprotective mother who argues with Denis Leary's character Tommy Gavin on a playground.
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From March through September 2012, Kerry Butler appeared in the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man.
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Kerry Butler played Mabel Cantwell, the Southern wife of a presidential candidate.
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On February 18,2013, Kerry Butler played Evelyn Nesbit in a concert production of Ragtime at Avery Fisher Hall.
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From March through May 2013, Kerry Butler appeared Off-Broadway in The Call, a new play by Tanya Barfield, a co-production between Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages.
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In May 2013, Kerry Butler appeared on an episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit as Ariel Randolph, a mother with a secret life whose bad decisions have tragic consequences.
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From April to June 2014, Kerry Butler appeared Off-Broadway in Under My Skin, a comedy by Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser.
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Kerry Butler played Melody Dent, a temp at a health insurance company who, thanks to a freak accident and divine intervention, ends up switching bodies with Harrison Baddish, the male CEO of the company.
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In October 2014, Kerry Butler starred in the York Theatre Company production of Big alongside John Tartaglia.
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Kerry Butler played Susan Lawrence, who works at a toy company and becomes the love interest of the main character Josh Baskin.
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In December 2014, Kerry Butler appeared on The Mysteries of Laura as Mrs Sullivan, a protective mother and on Elementary as Astrid, a birdwatcher.
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From March through June 2015, Kerry Butler appeared Off-Broadway at New World Stages in Clinton: The Musical, a satirical look at the years of Bill Clinton's presidency.
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Kerry Butler played Hillary Clinton and received good reviews for her role.
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Kerry Butler appeared in the Netflix television mini-series Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, which was released in November 2016.
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Kerry Butler plays Claudia, therapist to Lorelai Gilmore and Emily Gilmore.
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Kerry Butler played Marianne Wilson, a career-oriented reporter who, while investigating the story of a poorly constructed casino ship, runs into an unexpected person from her past.
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From October to December 2017, Kerry Butler appeared in the Broadway-bound musical adaptation of Mean Girls, by Tina Fey, Jeff Richmond, and Nell Benjamin.
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From March to September 2018, Kerry Butler played the roles of Ms.
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From October to November 2018, Kerry Butler appeared in the world premiere of the musical Beetlejuice at the National Theatre in Washington, DC, in the role of Barbara Maitland.
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Kerry Butler reprised the role of Barbara Maitland in the Broadway production of the show from March 2019 until its closing in March 2020.
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Kerry Butler is one of the original cast members who returned to Beetlejuice when it returned to Broadway in April 2022.
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In October 2023, Kerry Butler made her directorial debut by helming a production of Newsies at Rise Above Performing Arts in Sarasota, Florida.
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In September 2024, Kerry Butler appeared in American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez as Shelley Meyer, the wife of football coach Urban Meyer.
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Kerry Butler continues to perform in various workshops, readings, and benefit concerts.
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Kerry Butler is a vegetarian and activist whose concerns include youth mentoring, human rights violations, genocide, and environmental issues.
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Kerry Butler is married to childhood friend, Muppet writer, and puppeteer Joey Mazzarino.