Bryce Dallas Howard

Bryce Dallas Howard born March 2 1981 is an American actress and director Howard was born in Los Angeles and attended New York Universitys 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 Shyamalans fantasy thriller Lady in the Water 2006 Howards performance in Kenneth Branaghs As You Like It 2006 earned a Golden Globe Award nomination and she subsequently appeared as Gwen Stacy in Sam Raimis superhero film SpiderMan 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 Howards roles as a fairweather girlfriend in the comedydrama 5050 2011 and as a racist socialite in the perioddrama The Help 2011 brought praise Recognition of Howard widened when she costarred 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 Petes Dragon 2016 and Sheila Dwight Elton Johns 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