Brett Butler Net Worth 2024

What is Brett Butler’s net worth?

Brett Butler is an American actress, author and stand-up comedian who has a net worth of $10 thousand. Brett Butler is best-known for starring on the Nineteen Nineties sitcom “Grace Under Fire” which aired 112 episodes over 5 seasons between 1993 and 1998. At her peak Brett was one of many highest paid actors on tv. She earned tens of tens of millions of {dollars} in wage from the present. Unfortunately lately, particularly after the COVID pandemic, she has skilled extreme monetary issues. More on these struggles within the subsequent two sections.

Salary

At the height of the present, Brett was one of many highest-paid actors in tv, incomes $250,000 per episode which labored out to round $5 million per season. After adjusting for inflation, that is the identical as incomes round $9 million right now. She additionally might have earned $1 million if the present had been launched on DVD however for some purpose that by no means occurred.

According to a 2021 Hollywood Reporter interview, Brett earned $25 million throughout her time engaged on “Grace.” That’s the identical as round $45 million in right now’s cash. Brett instructed the Hollywood Reporter that she blew the fortune on “profligate” spending, unhealthy investments and simply merely giving it away.

Financial Problems

After her present ended, Brett purchased a farm in Georgia. Unfortunately she misplaced the property after failing to maintain up on the mortgage funds. In 2011 an Entertainment Tonight phase claimed she was homeless. Brett would later declare that these homeless allegations had been completely fabricated.

Unfortunately the COVID-19 pandemic prompted Brett’s work and funds to dry up utterly. Things bought so unhealthy {that a} buddy posted a GoFundMe fundraiser to assist forestall her from being evicted.

Early Career

Brett was born in Montgomery, Alabama on January 30, 1958. She grew up along with her 4 youthful sisters and along with her mother and father Carol and Roland Decatur Anderson Jr. At the age of 4, the family moved to Houston, Texas. Her mom then left her father, who was an abusive alcoholic, and moved her youngsters to Miami, Florida. She suffered from melancholy and the family was fairly poor all through Butler’s childhood. After ending highschool, Butler attended the University of Georgia, although she didn’t graduate. She additionally labored as a cocktail waitress.

Standup Career

After starting her profession as a stand-up comedian in Miami for a couple of years, Butler moved to New York City in 1984 the place she continued performing comedy. In 1987, she made her tv debut on “The Tonight Show.” The identical yr, she additionally carried out on Dolly Parton’s selection collection, “Dolly.” Parton employed Butler to work as a author on the rest on the collection for the remainder of the season however the present was cancelled after just one season because of low rankings.

Grace Under Fire

Brett turned a family title when she was given her personal collection, “Grace Under Fire” which premiered in 1993. The present was created by Chuck Lorre. Butler starred as the principle character, Grace Kelly, a divorced single mom and recovering alcoholic. The present follows her as she begins her life over after divorcing her abusive alcoholic husband.

The present ran for 5 years and was fairly well-liked, however because of substance abuse points, she was in the end let go from the manufacturing, and the present was cancelled. Brett’s dependancy points really prompted the present to be canceled after filming simply 14 of the fifth season’s 25 episodes.

For her work, she obtained two Golden Globe nominations within the Best Actress in a Television Series Musical or Comedy class in 1995 and 1997. She additionally gained a People’s Choice Award for Favorite Female Performer in 1994. She additionally performed the function in “The Drew Carey Show” and “Ellen” in 1997.

After Grace

 

Butler took a break from performing following the cancellation of “Grace Under Fire.” She appeared in a couple of movies, like “Bruno” and “Militia,” in 2000, however primarily stayed out of the general public eye. In 2005, she appeared within the tv movie “Mrs. Harris” along with the movie “Vampire Bats.” The identical yr, she additionally appeared in an episode of “My Name is Earl.” In 2006, she was forged because the host on the present “Moochers.”

In 2008, she headlined an artwork fundraiser after which appeared as herself in “Brett Butler Presents the Southern Belles of Comedy” in 2009. A few years later, she appeared on “The Rosie Show” and introduced that she had been sober since 1998 and was interested by getting again into performing. She then voiced a personality within the animated grownup collection “Archer” in 2012. The identical yr, she landed the recurring function of Beth Hortense in “The Young and the Restless.”

Butler then skilled a profession comeback. Between 2012 and 2014 she appeared in 38 episodes of Anger Management alongside Charlie Sheen. Brett really credit Charlie Sheen personally for serving to her get the half on the present. He apparently lobbied producers on her behalf.

She additionally began performing once more at comedy golf equipment in Los Angeles, significantly on the Downtown Comedy Club.

From 2015 to 2017, she appeared in two episodes of “The Leftovers” because the character of Sandy. She appeared in a number of episodes of “How to Get Away with Murder” in 2016, the identical yr through which she appeared as herself within the movie “The Comedian.” In 2018, she booked the function of Tammy Rose Sutton in “The Walking Dead, showing in six complete episodes till 2019. While on the present, she additionally appeared within the movie “Friday’s Child.”  In 2019, she  booked a recurring function on “The Morning Show,” through which she performs the mom of Reese Witherspoon’s character.

Personal Life

At the age of 20, in 1978, Butler married her first husband, Charles Michael Wilson. They had met solely three months earlier than their marriage. However, because of abuse within the marriage, Butler left Wilson in 1981. He has since admitted that he was violent in direction of her but additionally claims that she was additionally violent. Butler met her second husband, Ken Zieger, in New York City after transferring there in 1984. They had been married in 1987. They later divorced in 1999. Butler revealed a memoir, “Knee Deep in Paradise,” in 1996. The ebook candidly addresses a lot of her life earlier than she turned well-known in “Grace Under Fire.”

Butler suffered from drug dependancy all through her time on “Grace Under Fire.” She hung out in rehab whereas on the present. Eventually, because of her erratic habits and substance abuse, she was dismissed from the present in February of 1998 and the collection was cancelled. After the cancellation, she moved from Los Angeles to a farm in Rome, Georgia. She then was capable of get sober.