All All. Sign In. Well, if you ask me Everyone has their own list - This is just my opinion. List activity. Bryce Dallas Howard. She was conceived in Dallas, Texas the reason for her middle name. Her father, Ron Howard , is a former actor turned Oscar-winning director.
She also has two younger twin sisters, Jocelyn and Paige Howard also an actress , born in , and a brother, Reed Howard, born in Her ancestry includes German, English, Scottish, and Irish. Howard was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, because her parents decided to raise their four children as far away from the trappings of showbiz milieu as possible. During most of her childhood, she really did not have much access to a TV.
She applied to drama school as Bryce Dallas, dropping her last name to eschew special treatment because of association with her renowned father. Young Howard appeared in three of her father's films as an extra, including her appearance as a child together with her mother in Apollo 13 She made her feature-film debut as Heather, a supporting role in Book of Love by director Alan Brown.
Director M. Night Shyamalan was impressed by her performance in a Broadway play and cast her, without an audition, as a female lead in his two thrillers: The Village and Lady in the Water Howard replaced Nicole Kidman in the Dogville sequel, Manderlay She starred as Rosalind in As You Like It , a reprise of her stage role that made such an impression on Shyamalan.
Both films broke the records for highest openings weekends at the time of their release. Howard became a devoted vegan, after Joaquin Phoenix showed her Earthlings , a documentary about animal cruelty. After seeing that, she has consumed no animal products, not even milk or eggs. Her other activities outside of the acting profession include playing basketball and writing. On June 17, , in Connecticut, she married her long-time boyfriend, actor Seth Gabel , whom she met at New York University and had dated for five years.
