---
name: "Julia Butters"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/julia-butters"
fi1m_id: "julia-butters"
imdb_id: "nm6253548"
tmdb_id: 1651362
wikidata_id: "Q62023911"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 April 2009"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-24T04:42:37.108276+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Julia Butters

## Identity

Julia Butters

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/julia-butters
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** julia-butters
- **IMDb ID:** nm6253548
- **TMDB ID:** 1651362
- **Wikidata ID:** Q62023911
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Butters, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62023911, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6253548/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1651362

Actor. Born 15 April 2009 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 April 2009, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Active:** 2019–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 77 (1), 2020s 70 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 79 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 2, Family 1, Fantasy 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $593m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Butters, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62023911, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6253548/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1651362

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood*](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.md) (77)
- **Peacock:** [*The Fabelmans*](https://film.one/film/the-fabelmans.md) (76)
- **Disney+:** [*Freakier Friday*](https://film.one/film/freakier-friday.md) (65)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Julia Butters

> Julia Butters made her name at ten by sitting beside Leonardo DiCaprio between takes and talking to him as a colleague. The stillness and seriousness that did it are still her best assets; what she has not yet had is a part that asks for anything more.

Midway through *Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood* (2019), Leonardo DiCaprio's Rick Dalton is working a day on a Western pilot, fluffing his lines and then screaming at himself in his trailer. Between takes a child co-star sits down beside him and talks to him about the work as one professional to another, and later she tells him something kind. Julia Butters was ten. She plays Trudi Fraser as the most serious person on the set, and when the kind line comes she says it straight, with no sense that she is comforting him. We were moved more than we expected to be, and it was her doing: she does not act the kindness, and DiCaprio's face does the rest.

It was her breakout, and she has said as much. She had been working since she was two, in commercials, and had spent four seasons as Anna-Kat Otto on the sitcom *American Housewife* (2016–2020) when Tarantino cast her. She left the sitcom for films afterwards. *The Gray Man* (2022) followed, and then *The Fabelmans* (2022), in which she plays Reggie, one of the sisters in Spielberg's account of his own childhood. Our review did not single her out, and that is fair to her rather than against her: the film belongs to Michelle Williams and Paul Dano as the parents, and the children are there to watch them.

*Freakier Friday* (2025) gave her something nearer a lead, or a quarter of one. As Harper Coleman with Lindsay Lohan's Anna inside her, she gets the panic of a grown woman stuck in a school corridor and handles it well. The trouble is not hers. The film has four people swapping bodies and a plot that keeps stopping to remind us of the first one, so nobody is on screen long enough to build anything. It tells us she can be funny under pressure. It does not tell us whether she can hold a film on her own.

What she has, so far, is stillness and seriousness, and she has been cast for them each time: the wise child, the one who has read the script more carefully than the adults. That is a useful thing to be at ten and a limiting thing to be at twenty. She has said, "You can’t play a character if you don’t know who you are underneath it," which is a large claim at sixteen, and the Trudi scene suggests she may be entitled to it. The next few years will show whether the solemnity was a talent or a phase. Until then, the few minutes beside DiCaprio between takes are the reason to know her name.

## Biography

Julia Butters is an American actress. Born on 15 April 2009 in Los Angeles, California, she began her career as a child and first gained attention for her role as Trudi Fraser in *Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood* (2019). She was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Actor/Actress for the performance.

Butters starred as Anna-Kat Otto in the ABC sitcom *American Housewife* (2016–2020). Her other film roles include Beverly Silva in *13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi* (2016), Claire in *The Gray Man* (2022), Reggie Fabelman in *The Fabelmans* (2022), and Harper Coleman in *Freakier Friday* (2025).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Freakier Friday* (2025), Fi1m 65, as Harper Coleman — [page](https://film.one/film/freakier-friday.md)
- *The Fabelmans* (2022), Fi1m 76, as Reggie Fabelman — [page](https://film.one/film/the-fabelmans.md)
- *Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood* (2019), Fi1m 77, as Trudi Fraser — [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Paper* (2025), series, as Davey
- *Freakier Friday* (2025), as Harper Coleman — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/freakier-friday.md)
- *Queen of Bones* (2025), as Lily Brass
- *The Fabelmans* (2022), as Reggie Fabelman — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/the-fabelmans.md)
- *The Gray Man* (2022), as Claire
- *Monsters at Work* (2021), series, as Lorelei (voice)
- *Adventure Time: Distant Lands* (2020), series, as Larry / Additional Voices (voice)
- *Walt Disney Animation Studios: Short Circuit Experimental Films* (2020), series, as Little Girl (voice)
- *Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood* (2019), as Trudi Fraser — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.md)
- *I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson* (2019), series, as Toby
- *Pals* (2016), as Julia
- *American Housewife* (2016), series, as Anna-Kat Otto
- *A Family Man* (2016), as Lauren Jensen
- *The Kicks* (2016), series, as Ashley
- *Term Life* (2016), as Cate (7 year old)
- *13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi* (2016), as Beverly Silva
- *The Rusted* (2015), as Piper
- *Best Friends Whenever* (2015), series, as Cyd Ripley
- *Transparent* (2014), series, as Ella — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/transparent.md)
- *Criminal Minds* (2005), series, as Gabby Hoffer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/tv/criminal-minds.md)

## Gallery

- ![The “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” table with director Quentin Tarantino and young actress Julia Butters mugging for the camera during a commercial break in t (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/8181/gallery-3d0fbd0765a3.jpg) The “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” table with director Quentin Tarantino and young actress Julia Butters mugging for the camera during a commercial break in t (2020) — Chris Miksanek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/CMiks_-_Quentin_Tarantino_and_Julia_Butters_-_CCA_2020_01_12.jpg/1280px-CMiks_-_Quentin_Tarantino_and_Julia_Butters_-_CCA_2020_01_12.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![The “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” table with director Quentin Tarantino and young actress Julia Butters mugging for the camera during a commercial break in t (2020)](https://film.one/media/person/8181/gallery-f4aee74d4b82.jpg) The “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” table with director Quentin Tarantino and young actress Julia Butters mugging for the camera during a commercial break in t (2020) — Chris Miksanek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/CMiks_-_Quentin_Tarantino_and_Julia_Butters_-_CCA_2020_01_12_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Julia Butters arrives for the "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood premiere in Hollywood California on July 22, 2019 - Photo by Glenn Francis of www.PacificProDigital](https://film.one/media/person/8181/gallery-51488b90314e.jpg) Julia Butters arrives for the "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood premiere in Hollywood California on July 22, 2019 - Photo by Glenn Francis of www.PacificProDigital — Toglenn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Julia_Butters_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Julia Butters at The Fabelmans premiere. Thumbs up (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/8181/gallery-4202453f39de.jpg) Julia Butters at The Fabelmans premiere. Thumbs up (2022) — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Julia_Butters_at_the_2022_TIFF_Premiere_of_The_Fabelmans_%2852358880706%29.jpg/1280px-Julia_Butters_at_the_2022_TIFF_Premiere_of_The_Fabelmans_%2852358880706%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Julia Butters](https://film.one/media/person/8181/gallery-5a7244a1dc12.jpg) Julia Butters — Image via TMDB
- ![Julia Butters](https://film.one/media/person/8181/gallery-d8f5cbc43b9d.jpg) Julia Butters — Image via TMDB
- ![Julia Butters](https://film.one/media/person/8181/gallery-16e177a1f959.jpg) Julia Butters — Image via TMDB
- ![Julia Butters](https://film.one/media/person/8181/gallery-4f8888401450.jpg) Julia Butters — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Julia_Butters_at_the_2022_TIFF_Premiere_of_The_Fabelmans_%2852358880706%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Julia Butters](https://film.one/media/person/8181/gallery-81fbbfd09533.jpg) Julia Butters — Image via TMDB
- ![Julia Butters](https://film.one/media/person/8181/gallery-68b8b076d78b.jpg) Julia Butters — Image via TMDB
- ![Julia Butters](https://film.one/media/person/8181/gallery-0ab80e021509.jpg) Julia Butters — Image via TMDB

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