I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.

She later had second thoughts because her first and middle name combined made her sound like a porn star. The project got soundly negative reviews from the British media while American reviewers gave it more favorable notice. Howard was not familiar with the play and was cast just one day before it started.

After Bryce Dallas Howard came to the attention of M. Bryce Dallas Howard (born March 2 1981) is an American film actress writer and director. The daughter of director Ron Howard Bryce Dallas Howard made her acting debut in her father's film Parenthood (1989) and went on to have small roles in films and make stage appearances for the next several years.