Bryce Dallas Howard

On June 17, 2006, she married her long time boyfriend and fellow actor Seth Gabel, whom she had met in New York during her school days and dated for five years. In February 2007, she gave birth to a baby boy and christened him Theodore Norman Howard-Gabel. The couple’s second child Beatrice was born on January 12, 2012.

Greatly influenced by the documentary ‘Earthlings’ which was based on animal cruelty, she became a vegan. Later, she shifted to vegetarianism during pregnancy to boost her diet.

She was born to Oscar-winning movie director Ron Howard and his actress and writer wife Cheryl. Like her three younger siblings, her middle name ‘Dallas’ comes from the city Dallas (Texas), where she was conceived.

She grew in Greenwich, Connecticut, far from the showbiz along with her siblings as her parents wanted all of their children to have a normal childhood, away from limelight of Hollywood.

In 1996, she graduated from Greenwich country day school and went on to attending Byram hills high school in Armonk, New York. She also attended the prestigious Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s school in Chicago. During all these years, she discovered and started devouring existentialism.

She enrolled in Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts camp at Catskills together with her friend Natalie Portman. To avoid special treatment, She dropped her last name at the time of enrollment.

In 1995, she played an extra in her father's film, Apollo 13, along with many other members of her family.

In 2004, she debuted in ‘Book of Love’ directed by Alan Brown, which was about a young woman who fell for a lonely teenage boy, thereby destroying her marriage. It didn’t receive good response from the audience and critics.

In the same year, she got her major breakthrough role as a female lead in Manoj N Shyamalan’s fantasy thriller ‘The Village’. Her role was appreciated by the critics and the film did well commercially.

In 2005, she was cast by Lars Von Trier for sequel to Dogville (2003), ‘Manderlay’, replacing Nicole Kidman as Grace Mulligan. Though it was a failure at the box office, it was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2006, she re-united with Manoj N. Shyamalan for a fantasy film, ‘Lady in the Water’, starring as a nymph. It did not do well at the box office and garnered mix response from the audience.

In late 2006, she wrote and directed a short film, ‘Orchids’ as a part of Glamour magazine’s ‘Reel Moments’ series, funded by Cartier and Film Aid.

In 2006, she once again played the role of Rosalind in Kenneth Branagh’s film version of Shakespeare’s ‘As you like it’.

In 2007, she starred in spider man-3 as Peter Parker’s girlfriend Gwen Stacy. The film was a box-office hit. She dyed her hair blond for this movie and performed many stunts herself in spite of being several months pregnant.

In 2009, she played the role of Victoria, a vampire seeking revenge, in the third installment of the twilight series, ‘The Twilight saga: eclipse’. The film released the following year and was a major hit and her role in it was critically appreciated.