Bryce Dallas Howard Supports Dad Ron Howard as He's Awarded at the 2024 Paley Honors

Ron Howard, Michael Bloomberg and Faiza J. Saeed were honored at the 2024 Paley Honors on Thursday, June 13

Bryce Dallas Howard is stepping out to celebrate her dad Ron Howard.

On Thursday, June 13, the veteran filmmaker, 70, and his daughter Bryce Dallas, 43, appeared at the 2024 Paley Honors in New York City, where Ron was honored alongside former N.Y.C. mayor Michael Bloomberg and attorney Faiza J. Saeed as the Paley Center's spring 2024 honorees. The father-daughter duo smiled together on the red carpet before Ron, Bloomberg, 82, and Saeed were fêted at the gala event.

The Paley Honor recognizes an individual's "unmatched contributions to media," as a press release for the Paley Center for Media's announcement related to Ron's award reads.

“It’s a great honor to receive this award from the Paley Center," Ron said in a statement after he was announced as one of the Paley Center's three honorees in May. "One of the fascinating elements of both entertainment and media is the power it has to shape our culture and society, and it’s been a great privilege of my life to play a role in that conversation."

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Ron, a longtime filmmaker and actor who recently released his latest documentary Jim Henson Idea Man, shares daughter Bryce Dallas with his wife Cheryl Howard, whom he met in high school and married in 1975. They also share three other children: twins Jocelyn Carlyle and Paige Carlyle, 39, and son Reed Cross, 37.

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Ron recently shared an amusing anecdote about Bryce Dallas and Cheryl, 70, during an appearance on Conan O'Brien's podcast Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, regarding the time he and Cheryl first saw Bryce Dallas perform on Broadway in a 2003 production of Tartuffe. The filmmaker and O'Brien discussed Bryce Dallas' ability to cry on command, and Ron explained that Cheryl was not particularly impressed after seeing their daughter perform and cry on Broadway after she fought through a fever in order to perform.

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"Cheryl's just kinda sitting with her arms crossed, kind of with a little smile on her face. No emotion whatsoever," he said. "So we get to intermission, and I said, 'Babe, weren't you knocked out by that moment? I mean, you know, there she is. She's got a fever. It's opening night. She's crying real tears on Broadway.' "

"And she said, 'Are you kidding me? She did that every day of her life when she was 17,' " Ron recalled Cheryl saying.

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