Lori Butler is the woman who gave birth to American actor Austin Robert Butler. Lori’s famous son Austin Butler is best known for portraying Elvis Presley in the musical biopic Elvis (2022), for which he won a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Lori Butler: Bio Summary
| Name | Lori Butler |
| Gender | Female |
| Famous as | mother of Austin Butler |
| Died | September 2014 |
| Date of birth | N/A |
| Marital status | Divorced |
| Spouse | David Butler |
| Children | Austin Butler and Ashley Butler |
| Occupation | Aesthetician |
Who Is Lori Butler?
Lori Anne (née Howell), is known as the mother of Austin Butler. She was an aesthetician but later ran a daycare business at her home. She was married to a man named David Butler. David is a businessman. They gave birth to two children: Austin Butler born on August 17, 1991, and Ashley Butler, born on December 15, 1986.
However, Lori Butler and David Butler got divorced for unknown reasons. They are said to have divorced amicably. Their children Austin Butler and Ashley Butler are both doing well in their careers. Ashley started out acting.
Ashley Butler got to do some background acting with her brother Austin in Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide (2004). She is a happily married woman. She married Anthony Lucas in a beautiful ceremony after they are said to have dated for five years.
Austin Butler is an actor who plays guitar and piano. He started his career on television and first landed roles on the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon and later on teen dramas, including recurring parts on The CW’s Life Unexpected (2010–2011) and Switched at Birth (2011–2012).
Austin Butler gained recognition for starring in The Carrie Diaries (2013–2014) and The Shannara Chronicles (2016–2017). He made his Broadway debut in the 2018 revival of The Iceman Cometh and played Tex Watson in Quentin Tarantino’s film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).
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Meanwhile, Austin Butler’s mother Lori Butler was a very private person despite being a celebrity parent. She hid most of her details from the public. She wasn’t rich but she did her best to support her children. She occasionally took her kids to Disneyland just to make them happy.
Lori Butler was very supportive of her son’s career. She enrolled him in acting classes and drove him to different auditions. She had a very close bond with her children.
What Happened To Austin Butler’s Mother?
Lori Butler died of duodenal cancer, in September 2014. She didn’t live to see most of her son’s accomplishments. Announcing the death of his mom back on Sept. 12, 2014, Austin Butler tweeted:
“Lori Butler, my mom, my hero, & my best friend passed away this morning. Let’s all celebrate her. I love you and will miss you every day Mom.”
Austin told The New York Times about the tattoo tribute he has of her and the number 27 on his wrist: “She was my best friend. She called 27 her God number. Whenever she saw it, she felt that God was looking out for her.”
Austin Butler said that his mom saw his potential as an actor: “I owe her for everything because she quit her job and drove me to auditions and took me to acting classes.” Austin “started falling in love with the craft. But I was stuck in a lane of doing Nickelodeon and Disney.
According to him, ‘ Then I moved on to young-adult TV shows. After my mom passed away, I’d never experienced pain like that before, and I started to question. Suddenly I was around doctors and people that were hurting a lot in hospitals, and I thought,
‘Is acting a noble profession? Should I be doing this or should I give myself in some way that can help people who are dealing with cancer or something like that?’ ” He added that: “After my mom passed away, I went straight to New Zealand to start shooting a young-adult TV show”.
“A lot of people enjoyed the show, and I had fun doing horseback riding and that sort of thing, but I’d go home and cry every night.” Austin Butler said he “was dealing with grief, but it was also this feeling that I wasn’t aligned with something that felt truly fulfilling.
I got done with that show, once they canceled it after two seasons, and I said, ‘I would rather not work as an actor than ever do something like that again.’ ” At that point, he said he decided to take some time off, but he eventually “started sinking into a deeper and deeper depression.”
“It was about six or eight months of that. Then my agent called and said, ‘You’ve got to put yourself on tape for The Iceman Cometh. Denzel [Washington]’s doing it on Broadway'”
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Ashley Butler also frequently pays tributes to her late mother Lori Butler. She shares throwback photos on her social media handles.
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