Kyle Howard Biography

Birth Name: Kyle Alan Howard

Birth Place: Loveland, CO

Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 04/13/1978, Aries

Profession: Actor, writer

American film and television actor Kyle Howard was born on April 13, 1978. He is originally from Loveland, Colorado. He studied at Truscott Elementary and worked in a dinner theater in his early teens. He spent his summers performing in different plays at the Rialto, appearing in The Sound of Music, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Before he pursued his passion for acting, he worked in a diner and later on as a bus boy in the movie theater. He later found a job at the Reporter Herald, which he took on to earn money to buy a car to drive to Los Angeles.

Forgettable video store fare like "Address Unknown", "The Paper Brigade" and "Robo Warriors" (all 1996) were among Howard's early credits, but guest roles on "Chicago Hope" (CBS, 1996) and "Home Improvement" (ABC, 1997) proved more substantial. In 1998, after playing Ron Silver's son in the HBO-aired thriller "Skeletons" (1997), Howard took a role where he would call Robert Urich dad, playing the son of the ship's captain on the UPN remake series "Love Boat: The Next Wave". While a largely unimpressive series, "Love Boat: The Next Wave" offered Howard weekly exposure, and helped him to win many new fans. When the ship docked permanently in 1999, the young actor hit the big screen in the talking tot misfire "Baby Geniuses", but recovered the following year as one of three boys enrolled in an otherwise all-girls high school in the Fox summer sitcom "The Opposite Sex". While the series was certainly more engaging than much of its competition, it quickly left the airwaves.

That fall, Howard recovered with a regular role on "Grosse Point", a series spoofing the behind-the-scenes and on screen antics of a teen soap opera reminiscent of creator Darren Star's former baby, "Beverly Hills, 90210" (Fox). Here he played Dave May, the stand-in and partner in crime of doltish teen heartthrob Johnny Bishop (Al Santos). A bit racier than his previous offerings, "Grosse Pointe" would introduce Howard to an older, edgier audience. Also in 2000, the actor was featured in the CBS TV-movie "Yesterday's Children", playing a contemporary young man whose mother (Jane Seymour) becomes obsessed by lifelike dreams of a struggling woman in 1930s Ireland.

As an actor, Kyle Howard has attained considerable success in both television and film. He began working on direct-to-video movies like Trigger Happy and Hooked, and was later seen on the film House Arrest in 1996. That year, he was cast in the action adventure movie Robo Warriors, which was followed by a role in the series Chicago Hope. Some of his other earlier appearances were in Home Improvement, Skeletons, and numerous episodes of The Love Boat: The Next Wave. He also starred as Dickie on the family film Baby Geniuses, before working on The Amanda Show. He later got a part on Townies, a horror film. In 2000, he was cast alongside Milo Ventimiglia and Chris Evans in the Fox series Opposite Sex, but the show was canceled after eight episodes. Howard later played a minor role on the series Grosse Pointe, and was a guest star on an episode of Friends. In 2002, he worked with Jack Black and Colin Hanks on the film Orange County. He was next seen on Boston Public, Providence, What I Like About You, The Drew Carey Show, 8 Simple Rules…for Dating My Teenage Daughter and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In 2006, he joined the cast of the TBS sitcom My Boys as Bobby Newman. Howard was next seen on the sketch comedy movie Extreme Movie in 2008. In 2010, he was cast as Dave on the NBC comedy Perfect Couples.