Lance Valentine Butler was born and lives in Los Angeles and has been acting professionally since the age of seven. He has trained with the Margie Haber Studio, Donna Morong / Aquila Morong Studio and John Rosenfeld Studios and attended workshops at Second City Hollywood and The Actor's Gang. Lance has a natural comedic talent and a focus, depth, and sophistication that is rare for someone his age. He has performed in several commercials, a couple of short films, the ABC series "American Housewife", the Netflix sitcom "Alexa and Katie" and acted with Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling in the feature film "The Nice Guys", each time demonstrating a professionalism beyond his years. Since the age of five, Lance has had a passion for writing, filming, directing, acting in and editing his own films. He is a whiz-kid with all kinds of technology. Lance is also a self-taught guitarist and drummer and plays other instruments as well. He has self released two original albums, "River" & "Lava" respectively. Lance's musical tastes run from standards to rap to classic rock and beyond.