Bryce Dallas Howard (born March 2, 1981) is an American actress and director. She’s the daughter of filmmaker Ron Howard, making early appearances in his films Parenthood (1989), with Steve Martin, Tom Hulce, Rick Moranis, Martha Plimpton, Keanu Reeves, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, and Dianne Wiest; Apollo 13 (1995), with Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, and Kathleen Quinlan; How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), with Jim Carrey, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Taylor Momsen, and Molly Shannon; and A Beautiful Mind (2001), with Russell Crowe, Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, and Christopher Plummer.
She had her first prominent role in Book of Love (2004), with Frances O’Connor, Simon Baker, Gregory Smith, and Ari Gaynor; followed by a breakout performance in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village (2004), with Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Brendan Gleeson, and Judy Greer.
Other films in the mid to late 2000s include Lars von Trier’s Manderlay (2005), with Willam Dafoe, Lauren Bacall, Željko Ivanek, Jeremy Davies, Chloë Sevigny, Udo Kier, Jean-Marc Barr, and narration by John Hurt; Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It (2006), with Romola Garai, Kevin Kline, Adrian Lester, Janet McTeer, Alfred Molina, David Oyelowo, and Brian Blessed; and Lady in the Water (2007), with Paul Giamatti, Bob Balaban, Jeffrey Wright, Sarita Choudhury, Cindy Cheung, Freddy Rodriguez, Bill Irwin, Jared Harris, and Mary Beth Hurt.
Films in the late 2000s include Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 (2007), with Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, James Cromwell, Rosemary Harris, Elizabeth Banks, and J.K. Simmons; a cameo on Good Dick (2008), with Marianna Palka (who also directed), Jason Ritter, Tom Arnold, Mark Webber, Martin Starr, and Eric Edelstein; The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008), with Chris Evans, Ellen Burstyn, Ann-Margret, Will Patton, Mamie Gummer, and Jessica Collins; and Terminator Salvation (2009), with Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood, Common, Michael Ironside, and Helena Bonham Carter.
Films in the 2010s include The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), with Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, and Dakota Fanning; Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter (2010), with Matt Damon, Cécile de France, Lyndsey Marshal, Jay Mohr, and Thierry Neuvic; Tate Taylor’s The Help (2011), with Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Allison Janney, Cicely Tyson, Mary Steenburgen, and Sissy Spacek; and Jonathan Levine’s 50/50 (2011), with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Matt Frewer, Philip Baler Hall, and Anjelica Huston.
She received worldwide attention in the blockbuster Jurassic World Trilogy (2015 – 2022), collectively with Chris Pratt, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Omar Sy, BD Wong, Irrfan Khan, Toby Jones, Ted Levine, Rafe Spall, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Sam Neill.
Other films in the mid to late 2010s include David Lowery’s Pete’s Dragon (2016), with Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, Oona Laurence, and Robert Redford; Stephen Gaghan’s Gold (2016), with Matthew McConaughey, Édgar Ramírez, Corey Stoll, Toby Kebbell, Craig T. Nelson, Stacy Keach and Bruce Greenwood; a voice role in Charles Martin Smith’s A Dog’s Way Home (2019), with Ashley Judd, Edward James Olmos, Alexandra Shipp, Wes Studi, Barry Watson, and Jonah Hauer-King; and Dexter Fletcher’s Rocketman (2019), with Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Gemma Jones, Stephen Graham, Steven Mackintosh, and Tate Donovan.
Films in the 2020s include Matthew Vaughn’s Argyle (2024), with Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, Dua Lipa, Ariana DeBose, John Cena, and Samuel L. Jackson; and Tom Kingsley’s Deep Cover (2025) with Orlando Bloom, Nick Mohammed, Paddy Considine, Ian McShane, Sonoya Mizuno, and Sean Bean.
She has directed the documentary films Dads (2019) and Pets (2025), and episodes of the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian (2019–2023) and The Book of Boba Fett (2022), and Skelton Crew (2024).
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(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- Parenthood (1989) – directed by Ron Howard – uncredited
- Apollo 13 (1995)* – directed by Ron Howard – uncredited
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)* – directed by Ron Howard
- A Beautiful Mind (2001) – directed by Ron Howard – uncredited
- The Book of Love (2004) – directed by Alan Brown
- The Village (2004)* – directed by M. Night Shyamalan
- Manderlay (2005) – directed by Lars von Trier
- As You Like It (2006) – directed by Kenneth Branagh
- Orchids (2006) – director, co-writer only – short
- Lady in the Water (2006)* – directed by M. Night Shyamalan
- Orchids (2006) – director, writer only – short
- Spider-Man 3 (2007)* – directed by Sam Raimi
- Good Dick (2008) – directed by Marianna Palka – cameo
- The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008) – directed by Jodie Markell
- Terminator Salvation (2009) – directed by McG
- Despair (2010) – directed by Alex Prager – short
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) – directed by David Slade
- Hereafter (2010) – directed by Clint Eastwood
- The Help (2011) – directed by Tate Taylor
- When You Find Me (2011) – director only – short
- 50/50 (2011)* – directed by Jonathan Levine
- Restless (2011) – directed by Gus Van Sant – producer only
- Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013) – director only – anthology TV movie – other segments directed by Laura Dern, Sharon Maguire, Bonnie Hunt, & Ashley Judd
- Solemates (2015) – also director, writer – short
- Pant Suits (2015) – directed by Saralyn Armer
- Jurassic World (2015) – directed by Colin Trevorrow
- Pete’s Dragon (2016) – directed by David Lowery
- Gold (2016) – directed by Stephen Gaghan
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) – directed by J.A. Bayona
- A Dog’s Way Home (2019) – directed by Charles Martin Smith
- Rocketman (2019)* – directed by Dexter Fletcher
- Dads (2019) – director only – documentary
- Jurassic World Dominion (2022) – directed by Colin Trevorrow
- Argyle (2024) – directed by Matthew Vaughn
- Pets (2025) – director only – documentary
- Deep Cover (2025) – directed by Tom Kingsley
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