Bryce Dallas Howard
Birthdate: Mar 2, 1981
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Best known as Claire Dearing in the Jurassic World franchise, and the co-star of Jurassic World Dominion (2022), Bryce Dallas Howard has periodically appeared in other blockbuster series, including Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 (2007), Terminator Salvation (2009), and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010). Nevertheless, Howard started acting in the theater, including The Public Theatre and the Manhattan Theatre Club.
Discovered by writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, Howard—daughter of filmmaker Ron Howard (who had cast in mostly uncredited walk-on roles since she was an adolescent)—was cast in a lead role in The Village (2004), with Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, and William Hurt. Following her second movie role as the lead in Lars von Trier’s sequel to his Dogville (2003), Manderlay (2005), with Willem Dafoe, Danny Glover, and Udo Kier, Howard had sealed her reputation as a serious film actor operating at the top of the field.
Bryce Dallas Howard continued to work with Shyamalan on the box-office and critical failure, Lady in the Water (2006), and Kenneth Branagh’s version of Shakespeare’s As You Like It (2006), with Alfred Molina, Kevin Kline, David Oyelowo, and Janet McTeer. Howard’s movie choices shifted to a decidedly more commercial direction from this point on, starting in 2007 with Spider-Man 3, with Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and J.K. Simmons; Terminator Salvation, with Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, and Common; and, in her darkest role to date, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.
Howard gained awards recognition (along with her ensemble) in Tate Taylor’s acclaimed The Help (2011), with Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Jessica Chastain, and collaborated closely with filmmaker Gus Van Sant on his Restless (2011), which premiered to an indifferent reaction at the Cannes Film Festival.
2015 marked a fundamental swing in Bryce Dallas Howard’s career when she was cast in Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World, a new generation reboot of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park property, with Chris Pratt and Vincent D’Onofrio. The movie’s $1.6 billion box office ensured a steady franchise, which established Howard as one of the faces of a key Hollywood tentpole.
This continued with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), again with Pratt and Toby Jones, which grossed $1.3 billion worldwide, and Jurassic World Dominion, co-starring Pratt and a reunion of Jurassic Park co-stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum.
Under co-writer David Lowery’s direction, Howard starred in Disney’s well-received fantasy adventure, Pete’s Dragon (2016), with Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, and Robert Redford, and earning a solid $143.7 million global gross. Bryce Dallas Howard joined Matthew McConaughey, Edgar Ramirez, and Corey Stoll in the rollicking Stephen Gaghan-directed true-crime drama, Gold (2016), but losing money for distributor TWC-Dimension.
Howard performed the voice of a dog named Bella under Charles Martin Smith’s direction in Columbia/Sony Pictures’s successful live-action family drama, A Dog’s Way Home (2019), with the cast of Ashley Judd, Edward James Olmos, Alexandra Shipp, and Wes Studi. Howard portrayed Elton John’s mother in Paramount’s music biopic, Rocketman (2019), starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, and Richard Madden, and premiering at the Cannes Film Festival before grossing $195 million worldwide.
Howard co-starred with Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Samuel L. Jackson, and Ariana DeBose in Matthew Vaughn’s spy adventure, Argylle (2022). Bryce Dallas Howard, following in her father Ron’s footsteps of taking her acting talents behind the camera, shifted into film directing, with the documentary, Dads (2019), and helmed episodes of Disney+’s Star Wars off-shoots, The Mandalorian (2019-2020) and The Book of Boba Fett (2022). In 2022, she made her feature debut as director of the remake of the 1986 adventure of the same title.
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Personal Details
Los Angeles-born Bryce Dallas Howard was raised by her father, director Ron Howard, and her mother, Cheryl. She and her siblings were raised in Westchester County, New York, and in Greenwich, Connecticut. Her siblings include younger twins Paige and Jocelyn, and younger brother Reed.
She belongs to an acting family: Her sister is actor Paige Howard, her uncle is actor Clint Howard, her paternal grandparents are actors Rance and Jean Speegle Howard, and her godfather is actor Henry Winkler, who co-stars with Ron Howard on the hit 1970s sitcom, Happy Days. Bryce Dallas Howard schooled at Greenwich Country Day School and Byram Hills High School and then attended Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (only to leave the school for work, and ultimately earn her degree in 2020).
Her acting training included the performing arts camp Stagedoor Manor, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, the training school at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, New York’s Actors Center, the Experimental Theatre Wing, and Amsterdam-based International Theatre Workshop. Howard was also a member of the New York Theatre Workshop’s Theater Mitu. She has been married to actor Seth Gabel since 2006; the couple has two children, Theodore and Beatrice. Her height is 5’ 7”.
Filmography
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- 2024 |
- 2022 | Jurassic World DominionasClaire Dearing
Jurassic World Dominion
Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, Biosyn operatives attempt to track down Maisie Lockwood, while Dr Ellie Sattler investigates a genetically engineered swarm of giant insects.
- 2019 |
- 2019 |
- 2019 | A Dog’s Way HomeasBella
A Dog’s Way Home
A female dog travels four hundred miles in search of her owner throughout a Colorado wilderness.
- 2018 | Jurassic World: Fallen KingdomasClaire Dearing
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.
- 2017 | Gold (2017)asKay
Gold (2017)
Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on a journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.
- 2016 | Pete’s DragonasGrace
Pete’s Dragon
The adventures of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliott, who happens to be a dragon.
- 2015 | Jurassic WorldasClaire Dearing
Jurassic World
A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.
- 2011 |
Some Facts About Bryce Dallas Howard
TV-Free: Although her father Ron Howard co-starred in two long-running TV comedy series (The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days), Bryce Dallas Howard and her siblings grew up without television.
Vegan: Howard turned vegan after watching a documentary on the treatment of animals.
Stand-In: Bryce Dallas Howard has replaced fellow actors in their roles in three movies: first, Nicole Kidman for the lead role in Manderlay, then Claire Danes in the role of Kate Connor in Terminator Salvation, and then Rachelle Lefevre in the role of Victoria in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
