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
Deep Cover
Kat
2025
Argylle
Elly Conway
2024
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
Yaddle (voice) · (1 episode)
2022
Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World
Self
2022
Jurassic World Dominion
Claire Dearing
2022
Witch Mountain
2022
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Self (archive footage)
2022
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian
Self - Director · (9 episodes)
2020
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self · (2 episodes)
2019
Dads
Self
2019
Love, Antosha
Self
2019
Rocketman
Sheila
2019
A Dog's Way Home
Bella (voice)
2019
Fallen Kingdom: The Kingdom Evolves
Self
2018
Fallen Kingdom: VFX Evolved
Self
2018
Fallen Kingdom: The Conversation
Self
2018
Fallen Kingdom: Malcolm's Return
Self
2018
Fallen Kingdom: Aboard The Arcadia
Self
2018
Fallen Kingdom: Island Action
Self
2018
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Claire Dearing
2018
LEGO Jurassic World: The Indominus Escape
Claire Dearing (voice)
2016
Pete's Dragon
Grace
2016
Disneyland 60: The Wonderful World of Disney
Self
2016
Gold
Kay
2016
Jurassic World
Claire
2015
Pant Suits
Karen Petraske
2015
Solemates
Woman
2015
The Hug
Susanna
2014
T-Rex Ranch
Self · (1 episode)
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · (3 episodes)
2014
The Lion's Mouth Opens
Herself
2014
Black Mirror
Lacie Pound · (1 episode)
2011
50/50
Rachael
2011
The Help
Hilly Holbrook
2011
Conan
Self · (1 episode)
2010
Hereafter
Melanie
2010
Despair
Woman
2010
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Victoria
2010
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest · (2 episodes)
2009
Terminator Salvation
Kate Connor
2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Self · (1 episode)
2009
Good Dick
Kissing Woman
2008
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Fisher Willow
2008
To Each His Own Cinema
(segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
2007
Spider-Man 3
Gwen Stacy
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self · (2 episodes)
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2007
As You Like It
Rosalind
2006
Lady in the Water
Story
2006
Manderlay
Grace Margaret Mulligan
2005
Deconstructing 'The Village'
Self
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self · (1 episode)
2005
The Village
Ivy Walker
2004
Book of Love
Heather
2004
Arrested Development
Bryce Dallas Howard · (1 episode)
2003
A Beautiful Mind
Harvard Student (uncredited)
2001
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Surprised Who
2000
The Early Show
Self · (1 episode)
1999
The View
Self · (2 episodes)
1997
The View
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1997
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1993
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Self - Presenter · (1 episode)
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Herself · (2 episodes)
1992
Parenthood
Redheaded Audience Girl (uncredited)
1989