Bryce Dallas Howard

Bryce Dallas Howard made her feature debut starring in the M. Night Shyamalan film, The Village, opposite Adrien Brody, Joaquin Phoenix and Sigourney Weaver. Howard next stars as ‘Grace’ in the Lars von Trier film, Manderlay, the filmmaker’s follow-up to Dogville. The film also stars Lauren Bacall, Chloe Sevigny, Danny Glover and Jeremy Davies and premiered at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. IFC Films will release the film in March 2006. Howard will then star as Rosalind opposite Kevin Kline in Kenneth Branagh’s film adaptation of the Shakespeare classic, As You Like It, which Picturehouse will release in the Spring of 2006. She is currently in production on Shyamalan’s next project, Lady In The Water, opposite Paul Giamatti which Warner Bros. has scheduled for release in Summer 2006.
After leaving the Tisch School of the Arts program at New York University, Howard immediately began working on the New York stage, including playing the role of Marianne in the Roundabout’s Broadway production of Tartuffe, Rosalind in the Public Theatre’s As You Like It, Sally Platt in the Manhattan Theater Club’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s House/Garden and as Emily in the Bay Street Theater Festival production of OUR TOWN.