“Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.”

American actress and director

Bryce Dallas Howard is an American actress and director. Born into a filmmaking family, she studied acting at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and emerged in the early 2000s. She has 104 quotes on the site. Howard gained wider attention after playing Rosalind in a 2003 production of As You Like It. That performance brought her to the notice of M. Night Shyamalan, who cast her in The Village as a blind woman and later in Lady in the Water as a naiad.