Julia Butters

Julia Butters is an American actress who started her career at age five, first appearing in commercials and then taking her first speaking role as Gabby on Criminal Minds. In 2016 she had a recurring part as Ella on Transparent, and later that year she began starring as Anna-Kat Otto on the ABC sitcom American Housewife. Quentin Tarantino spotted her on television while writing Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and cast her as Trudi Fraser in that film (2019), a role that earned her critical praise and a Critics' Choice Movie Award nomination for Best Young Actor/Actress. She left American Housewife after four seasons to seek similar opportunities. She later appeared in The Gray Man (2022), played Reggie Fabelman in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans (2022), took the role of Lily in Queen of Bones (2024), and played Harper Coleman in Freakier Friday (2025).