Bryce Dallas Howard
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Biography
Bryce Dallas Howard (born March 2, 1981) is an American actress and director. Howard was born in Los Angeles and attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, leaving in 2002 to take roles on Broadway but graduating in 2020. While portraying Rosalind in a 2003 production of As You Like It, Howard caught the attention of director M. Night Shyamalan, who cast her as the blind daughter of a local chief in the psychological thriller The Village (2004). She later starred in the leading role of a naiad who escapes from a fantasy world in Shyamalan's fantasy thriller Lady in the Water (2006).
Howard's performance in Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It (2006) earned a Golden Globe Award nomination and she subsequently appeared as Gwen Stacy in Sam Raimi's superhero film Spider-Man 3 (2007). She went on to appear as Kate Connor in the action film Terminator Salvation (2009) and as Victoria in the fantasy film The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), both of which were successful but garnered mixed reviews from critics. Howard's roles as a "fair-weather" girlfriend in the comedy-drama 50/50 (2011) and as a racist socialite in the period-drama The Help (2011) brought praise.
Recognition of Howard widened when she co-starred as Claire Dearing in the adventure film Jurassic World (2015), and its sequels Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022), the first two of which rank as her most successful films. She also portrayed a forest ranger in the adventure film Pete's Dragon (2016) and Sheila Dwight, Elton John's mother, in the biopic Rocketman (2019), voicing Yaddle in Tales of the Jedi (2022).
Howard directed the documentary Dads (2019), and episodes of the Disney+ space western series The Mandalorian (2019–) and The Book of Boba Fett (2022). Her father is actor and filmmaker Ron Howard and she is married to actor Seth Gabel, with whom she has two children.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Graham Norton Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Black Mirror
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
MTV Movie & TV Awards
The Early Show
Arrested Development
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
A Beautiful Mind
Parenthood
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Dog's Way Home
Terminator Salvation
Spider-Man 3
50/50
Rocketman
Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
The Help
Jurassic World
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Jurassic World Dominion
Lady in the Water
LEGO Jurassic World: The Indominus Escape
Deep Cover
Argylle
The Village
Production Credits
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