Bryce Dallas Howard

Born on March 2, 1981, in Los Angeles, Bryce Dallas Howard is the daughter of writer Cheryl Howard and actor and filmmaker Ron Howard , author of titles such as A Beautiful Mind . She says that her middle name, Dallas, refers to the city in which she was conceived. Since the time she was studying at the institute she was teetotaler. “She didn’t go to parties so she wouldn’t have to say no, which condemned me to social ostracism,” explains the actress, who currently doesn’t go to Hollywood parties either. “I am repelled by these kinds of acts,” she has commented.

At the age of 8, he made his debut as an extra in his father’s film, Sweet Home… Sometimes! , where she is not credited. She studied acting at the Tisch School of the Arts, in New York. There she fell in love with one of her fellow students, Seth Gabel, who has now achieved some popularity among Fringe fans as the tough FBI agent Lincoln Lee. After dating for several years, they married in 2006 and soon became parents to Theodore, her first child.

Bryce Dallas Howard appeared occasionally in his father’s films, Apollo 13 and The Grinch , and had a major role in the little-known Book of Love . He performed a Shakespearean play on Broadway, with which he left M. Night Shyamalan himself speechless , who bet heavily on it, in The Forest . He played the lead, Ivy, a blind woman with character. She garnered good reviews despite the challenge of sharing the screen with heavyweights like Joaquin Phoenix , Adrien Brody , William Hurt , Sigourney Weaver , etc.

Since things didn’t go badly with the actress, Shyamalan brought her back in The Water Girl , where she was the young woman in question, a water nymph. Her talent caught the eye of Danish Lars Von Trier , who cast the actress to play the same character as Nicole Kidman in Dogville for the hard-hitting film Manderlay , a sequel in which she arrives on a plantation in the southern United States where she continues to exist. slavery. At that time, another renowned filmmaker, Kenneth Branagh , hired her for As You Like It ., adaptation of Shakespeare’s work, in which she repeated as the protagonist, Rosalind, daughter of a duke, the role with which she had impressed the director of The Sixth Sense in the theater.

Subsequently, the actress has embodied very different characters. Sam Raimi signed her for Spider-Man 3 , where she dyed blonde to be Gwen Stacy, in that film she was the girlfriend of Eddie Brock, the guy corrupted by an alien symbiote. She was Kate Connor , wife of human resistance leader John Connor in Terminator Salvation . She replaced Rachelle Lefevre in the role of the evil and vengeful vampire Victoria, in Eclipse . Clint Eastwood cast her as Matt Damon ‘s classmate in Afterlife . She plays the insecure girlfriend of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, a terminally ill cancer patient, at 50/50 . And she has also been the cruel boss of a black maid, in Maids and Ladies (The Help) , a true mass phenomenon.