Help star Bryce Dallas Howard gives birth to baby girl

BRYCE Dallas Howard and her husband have welcomed their second child, a baby girl.

THE Help star Bryce Dallas Howard and her husband have welcomed their second child, a baby girl.

Howard, 30, gave birth to Beatrice Jean Howard-Gabel on Thursday,People magazine reports.

Howard's father, filmmaker Ron Howard, tweeted that his new granddaughter weighed eight pounds and six ounces, and that both mother and baby were "spectacular".

Howard's husband, Fringe star Seth Gabel, and their four-year-old son Theo, "are beaming ear to ear" after the arrival, Ron Howard said.

In addition to The Help, Howard appeared in Spider-Man 3 and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

In 2010, she wrote about her postpartum depression after Theo's birth for Gwyneth Paltrow's website, Goop, calling it "one of the darkest and most painfully debilitating chapters of my life".