Paige Howard

Biography

Paige Howard is an American Movie & TV actress. She is known for her roles as Sue O'Malley & Sandra Turner in the movies Adventureland (2009) & The Employer (2013) respectively.

Recently, she appears in the movie Prairie Bones as Pearl. Some of her recent roles are- Alberta in Collection(2021), Veronica Lake in Hollywood.Con(2021)

Family- Childhood

Paige Carlyle Howard was born on February 5, 1985, in Los Angeles, California to Ron Howard(Father) a movie director/ producer & Cheryl Alley(Mother). 

[image: Little Paige Howard, Source]

Parents

Image: Paige Howard with her parents: Cheryl Alley(Mother), Ron Howard(Father)

Sisters

She has a twin sister named Jocelyn Carlyle Howard.  Piage has an elder sister named Bryce Dallas Howard, a popular Hollywood star. She has a younger brother named Reed Cross (born in 1987)

Image: Paige Howard with her twin sister Jocelyn Carlyle

Image: Paige Howard Childhood: Paige(Left), Bryce(Center), Jocelyn(Right)

[Image: Paige with brother Reed Howard]

Education

• Tisch School of the Arts: She graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (aka Tisch) . Nelson Franklin, Lauren Silvi, Renée Felice Smith were among her friends that attended the school at the same time.

Marriage

Tim Abou Nasr

Tim is an actor , singer and a musician. Tim has appeared as "Tim" in  the Law School drama Hillbilly Elegy(2020). Tim and Paige have worked together on projects like- Santa Claus, IN (Episode: O'Night Devine- Part 3) (TV series), The Smiler(2020) (Short movie). He is also a singer and a musician, he enjoys singing classics like "Stand by Me", "Hallelujah", "What a wonderful world".

He is half of the musical duo "The Broadway Buskers", the other part being Kaitlin Lawrence. He has previously been with "PS Railored Events" and "McKinley Chalet Resort" (As Singer/ Guitarist).

The two are said to have first met at her apartment in November 2017. Thy got engaged in July of 2019. They had previously set 3rd May 2020 as the wedding day, unfortunately the Covid Pandemic didn't allow the event to happen. 

The wedding: Paige married actor Tim Abou Nasr in Central Park, New York on 1st of May 2022. Her father Ron Howard officiated the event, while her sisters Bryce and Jocelyn were the braidsmaids. 

[Image: Paige Howard and Tim Abou Nasr at their Wedding]

She announced her wedding to the world through an instagram post [2] that red:

"Mrs.  The most beautiful day of my life thus far…. And on and on and on. We are on cloud nine! Thank you to everyone who made our special day what it was. More photos to come! May 1st, 2022"

Filmography

Movies

TV Series

Career

Paige made her professional acting debut at the Vineyard Theatre in New York, where she played the titular role in Scottish writer J. M. Barrie's play 'Mary Rose'. It was directed by Tina Landau. [1]

Paige made her TV debut through minor roles in the TV series Medium(2005-2009) (supernatural Thriller Mystery)  and 90210(2008-2013) (a teen drama). 

Paige made her Big screen debut in the role of Sue O'Malley in the movie Adventureland (2009).

The Employer

She played the prominent role of Sandra Turner in the psychological thriller The Employer (2013). She won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in The Employer (2013) at the Los Angeles Movie Awards. The story is about five applicants who appear for the position in a powerful but mysterious corporation, they wake up trapped together in a locked room, The Employer informs them that they have to kill each other and the only surviving person will get to walk out free, what will they do?

[Paige Howard in the employer]

She worked in a web series named 'stalkTALK', where she played Natalie Walsh in eight of the episodes.

She appeared in the Indie comedic movies Cheesecake Casserole(2012) as Jess, and in Virgin Alexander(2011) as Ruby.

She made an appearance as herself in the episode "Emotional Baggage" of the Fox sitcom "Arrested Development"(2018).

She played Dr. Julie in the SyFy black comedy "Happy!" in the Episode "Pervapalooza" (S2E6) (2019)

In the 2020 short movie "The Smiler" she plays Wendy.

The Astronauts

She has voiced the character Matilda in the Nickelodeon action-adventure series "The Astronauts"(2020-21) in eight episodes. Matilda is the Odyssey II A.I program, a creation of Singer Combs and is meant for children's space launch.

One interesting trivia about the series is that she recorded her parts of the series without ever meeting any of her co-stars in the series, The series was recorded during the Covid-19 pandemic and the restrictions forced by the pandemic didn't allow them to meet for a long time.

In the 2021 movie action comedy Hollywood.Con co-written and directed by Mika Boorem, she plays Veronica Lake.

In the 2021 Crime Thriller "Collection" Directed by Marianna Palka, she plays Alberta

 Writing

A Pigeon in Paris: Petite takes Flight

She wrote her very first Children's book which was released in April 2023. She wrote the original story several years ago, for herself, to explore herself, to get out of her comfort zone, she wrote it and kept it in a draw until recently when she got inspiration from her god father Henry Winkler and SCBWI (The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators) event to go ahead and publish it. She sent it to a few publishers, Sleeping Bear Press was happy to publish the book for her. [6]

Interesting Facts

• She and her sisters were babysat by Hollywood stars like Tom Cruise.
• She & her sisters were not allowed to watch TV until they were 7 or 8.
• She is of English, German, Irish, Scottish ancestry.
• She and her siblings were brought up in Greenwich, Connecticut; because her parents wanted to keep the kids away from show business as long as possible and to have a normal life.
• She was conceived in Carlyle, thus her middle name Carlyle. Her brother Reed was conceived in Cross and carries the middle name Cross.
• She is a vegetarian.
• Her family are Democratic party supporters
• She supported Democratic party in the 2016 presidential elections.
• She supports Robinhood.org (It is her Twitter Bio link), an organization helping fight poverty in the New York city by funding, supporting and connecting community organizations that help provide unfortunate people with a chance to rise. 
• She has funny bones in her: Her twitter bio reads "Considering there is so little space to tell you ALL about who 'Paige Howard' is- I am going to do my best to keep this short, sweet, and to the point. I was bo" and ends abruptly :)
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• The whole Howard family (including Ron Howard, Bryce Dallas Howard, Paige Howard and the rest) appears in an episode of Arrested Development. [5]
• She supports the LGBT movement, on the day of 2017 New York City Pride March, she tweeted  "LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE❤️" in support the Pride
• She expressed her support to the Victims of war of 2022 in Ukraine [7]
• Mental Health advocate: Through an isntagram post in October 2020, Paige shared her mental health struggles that she faced in her 20s. As someone who has successfulyl come out of it, she has some sound advice for the 20 y/o Paige and anyone in that place at the moment:

  • Sweetheart, there is no shame in what you are going through. Your struggle doesn’t make you weak and worthless. In fact, these are the fires of transformation from which integrity and authenticity are born. You are being called home to yourself. You are more capable and resilient than you can possibly imagine. Your suffering is here to make more joy possible. Turn on the lights of your suffering, and everything becomes possible

  • She shares how right therapy, medication, consistency in good practices, especially daily Yoga practice, helped her get out of mentaland health struggles.

Awards

Quotes

• Anyone who believes that men are the equals of women has clearly never witnessed a man attempting to wrap a Christmas gift.
• [On New York City] This place reminds me of who I truly am in the most visceral way. [4]

Sources

1. Paige Howard on Wikipedia
2. Paige's Instagram profile
3. Paige's Filmography on IMDB
4. Paige Howard on her Love for NYC
5. Howards on Arrested Deelopment
6. Paige on the background of her book 'A Pigeon in Paris' 
7. Ukraine war 
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