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 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" and has 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 plays all sorts of other instruments as well. He has self released two albums, "River" & "Lava" respectively. Lance's musical tastes run from standards to rap to classic rock and beyond.