Austin Butler is an Academy Award nominated actor from Anaheim, California. He grew up in close proximity to both Disneyland and Knox Berry Farm, where he would go on a regular basis with his mother and sister. He was "discovered" at the Orange County Fair at 13 years old and began acting on Nickelodeon and Disney Channel for a number of years before graduating to more serious roles. Butler has had roles on "Ruby and the Rockits", "The Carrie Diaries", and "The Shannara Chronicles". After his Broadway debut in 2018, his love of acting was reinvigorated from working alongside Denzel Washington and soon after the play closed, Butler would audition and inevitably prep for his largest role to date... click here to learn more about Mr. Butler.
AUSTIN
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AWS-tin
Medieval contracted form of AUGUSTINE. Modern use of the name is probably also partly inspired by the common surname Austin, which is of the same origin. This is also the name of a city in Texas.
ROBERT
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Scandinavian, German, Dutch, Czech, Polish, Russian, Slovene, Croatian, Romanian, Ancient Germanic
Other Scripts: Роберт (Russian)
Pronounced: RAH-bərt (English), ro-BER (French), RO-bert (German), RO-bərt (Dutch), RAW-bert (Polish), RO-byert (Russian), RO-beert (Russian)
From the Germanic name Hrodebert meaning “bright fame”, derived from the Germanic elements hrod “fame” and beraht “bright”. The Normans introduced this name to Britain, where it replaced the Old English cognate Hreodbeorht. It has been a very common English name since that time.
The name has been borne by two early kings of France, two Dukes of Normandy, and three kings of Scotland, including Robert the Bruce who restored the independence of Scotland from England in the 14th century. The author Robert Browning (1812-1889) and poets Robert Burns (1759-1796) and Robert Frost (1874-1963) are famous literary bearers of this name. Other bearers include Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), the commander of the Confederate army during the American Civil War, and American actor Robert Redford (1936-).
BUTLER
Usage: English, Irish
Extra: Statistics
The surname comes from the Middle English word botte, which means “a vat or large trough used to contain wine”. A butler (from Middle English boteler) was the servant in charge of the botts. A famous bearer of this surname is the fictional character of Rhett Butler, created by Margaret Mitchell for her novel ‘Gone With The Wind’.
Austin Butler is an Academy Award nominated actor from Anaheim, California. He grew up in close proximity to both Disneyland and Knox Berry Farm, where he would go on a regular basis with his mother and sister. He was "discovered" at the Orange County Fair at 13 years old and began acting on Nickelodeon and Disney Channel for a number of years before graduating to more serious roles. Butler has had roles on "Ruby and the Rockits", "The Carrie Diaries", and "The Shannara Chronicles". After his Broadway debut in 2018, his love of acting was reinvigorated from working alongside Denzel Washington and soon after the play closed, Butler would audition and inevitably prep for his largest role to date... click here to learn more about Mr. Butler.