Twilight’s Bryce Dallas Howard

Bryce Dallas Howard is a flame-haired psychopath, and loving it. Leaping ravines, bouncing across tree tops and leaving a trail of bloody devastation in her wake, the 29-year-old Hollywood heiress (her father is the director Ron — Da Vinci Code — Howard) is the most fearsomely exciting thing about the new Twilight movie, Eclipse. She plays the billion-dollar franchise’s über-villain Victoria, who is driven solely by the desire to destroy the simpering heroine Bella (Kristen Stewart). Thus, while the lovelorn protagonists engage in much slushy staring and soap-opera dialogue (“I know you feel something for me”), the naked aggression of Howard’s Victoria is a blessed relief. Today, even Howard, who is often cast as a vessel of purity (see Lady in the Water), is still