Norbert Leo Butz

Acting

Norbert Leo Butz

Born 1967-01-30 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Norbert Leo Butz is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his work in Broadway theatre. He is a two-time winner of the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and is one of only nine actors ever to have won the award twice.

Acting credits

A Complete Unknown poster
7.1

New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music.

A Complete Unknown

2024

The Exorcist: Believer poster
5.8

Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After she and her friend return from a three-day disappearance with missing memories, they begin displaying frightening behavior reminiscent of the MacNeil possession fifty years prior.

The Exorcist: Believer

2023

Wonder Park poster
6.6

A young girl named June with a big imagination makes an incredible discovery -- the amusement park of her dreams has come to life. Filled with the world's wildest rides operated by fun-loving animals, the excitement never ends. But when trouble hits, June and her misfit team of furry friends begin an unforgettable journey to save the park.

Wonder Park

2019

Fair Game poster
6.5

A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life.

Fair Game

2010

Coyotes poster
5.3

Trapped in their Hollywood Hills home, a family fights for survival when caught between a raging wildfire and a pack of savage coyotes.

Coyotes

2025

Dan in Real Life poster
6.6

Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love with is actually his brother's new girlfriend.

Dan in Real Life

2007

Disconnect poster
7.1

A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide as ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.

Disconnect

2013

Better Nate Than Ever poster
6.5

13-year-old Nate Foster has big Broadway dreams but there’s only one problem — he can’t even land a part in the school play. When his parents leave town, Nate and his best friend Libby sneak off to the Big Apple for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to prove everyone wrong. A chance encounter with Nate’s long-lost Aunt Heidi turns his journey upside-down, and together they must learn that life’s greatest adventures are only as big as your dreams.

Better Nate Than Ever

2022

The English Teacher poster
5.6

Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject. Then a former star pupil reenters her life after failing as a playwright in New York City. Seeing in his script the inspiration that she has always longed to instill in her students, this dyed-in-the-wool romantic enlists the help of long-suffering drama teacher Carl to mount the work as the high school’s next and riskiest production.

The English Teacher

2013

Better Living Through Chemistry poster
5.9

A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.

Better Living Through Chemistry

2014

Flag Day poster
5.8

A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter.

Flag Day

2021

Higher Ground poster
5.9

Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith. Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir This Dark World, the film tells the story of a thoughtful woman's struggles with belief, love, and trust - in human relationships as well as in God.

Higher Ground

2011

Good Posture poster
5.2

A lazy and beautiful young woman uses men to make her life easier, until she pushes one too far, forcing her to discover that she can live a better life by taking responsibility for herself.

Good Posture

2019

Give or Take poster
5.7

When a disillusioned New Yorker's father dies, he goes home to Cape Cod and prepares the house for sale while sharing it with his father's temperamental live-in boyfriend. Grieving, they circle each other, butt heads, and negotiate how to remember the man they both loved, and the significance of what he left behind.

Give or Take

2022

Luce poster
6.4

A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.

Luce

2019

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1.0

The lives of a group of young doctors, nurses, and administrators working at an underfunded Los Angeles county hospital.

County

2012

New World Order poster
5.3

The diary of an occult novelist sends a young college student, on a journey into the paranormal and fantastic, evolving into a living nightmare of paranoia and terror.

New World Order

2002

West of Here poster
3.7

Finding his only escape in music, Gil Blackwell (Josh Hamilton) decides to leave his monotonous business life in Boston when his cousin dies in a car accident. Gil ignores his father's disapproval and takes the family's antique truck for the promised land of California, but on the way a chance encounter reunites him with an old college flame, Genevieve (Fried Green Tomatoes' Mary Stuart Masterson), who joins his journey.

West of Here

2002

Looking for an Echo poster
3.8

The lead singer of an oldies group reminisces about the good ol' days and a potential comeback.

Looking for an Echo

2000

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NR

An intellectual leftist is forced to live with a loud-mouthed conservative.

Playing Chicken

2007

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NR

Lance is a sprinkler contractor in a drought-stricken desert boomtown whose life converges with a criminal duo, led by Abdi, who are hunting for a corpse that has resurfaced on the banks of a receding reservoir. Caught in a web of escalating tensions, false accusations, and buried secrets, Lance, his wife Elana, and estranged son Noah must navigate the pull of shady developer Whip, who partners with Saudi investors on a thirsty alfalfa growing venture, threatening the community’s dwindling water supply.

Alfalfa

Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words poster
7.5

A feature documentary profiling the most revered screenwriter in movie history, Paddy Chayefsky stands alone as the only writer to win three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay: for Marty (1955), The Hospital (1971) and Network (1976).

Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words

2025

Greetings from Tim Buckley poster
5.2

A chronicle of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley's performance at his father's tribute concert in 1991.

Greetings from Tim Buckley

2013