Emerging from a Manhattan artistic family-her mother managed a theatre company and her father drummed for the 1960s group the Lovin' Spoonful-Butler graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1991 before launching a screen career. After a brief supporting turn in the 1979 slasher Savage Weekend, she secured a starring role opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in John Woo’s Hard Target (1993) and later app…
