Bryce Dallas Howard mini-bio: On March 2, 1981, Bryce Dallas Howard was born to Ron and Cheryl Howard in Los Angeles. She was raised in a house of performers: her father was a renowned actor-director, her mother was an actress and writer, her uncle Clint was an actor, and both her grandmother Jean Spegle and grandfather Rance were actors as well.
However, her parents decided to raise her and her three siblings away from the Hollywood limelight in Greenwich, Connecticut. Despite being removed from the show business, she was cast as extra in three movies that her father directed, including Apollo 13.
Bryce attended Greenwich Country Day School as a child and graduated from Byram Hills High School in Armonk, New York. During this time, Bryce attended both the summercamps Steppenwold School and the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts studying drama and acting. After graduating high school, she applied and was accepted to drama school under the name Bryce Dallas (to avoid receiving special treatment).
In 2003, she graduated with a BFA in Drama from the New York University Tisch School of Arts. She went straight from school onto the stage in Broadway productions of classics by Shakespeare, Anton Chekhob, and George Bernard Shaw. In 2004, Bryce was cast in the movie Book of Love in the supporting role Heather, her feature film debut.
After seeing her perform on Broadway, director M. Night Shyamalan cast Bryce as the lead lady in two consecutive films, The Village and Lady in the Water. In 2005, she starred in the Dogville sequel Manderlay, replacing Nicole Kidman. She also joined the existing casts of the Spiderman movies in the third installment in 2007 as Mary Jane's rival, Gwen Stacy.
Bryce is married to Seth Gabel. The two had dated for five years before getting married on June 17, 2006 in Connecticut. She gave birth to her first son, Theordore Norman Howard, on February 17, 2007.
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