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Howard during a visit to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, December 19, 2005
Born	(1966-06-14) June 14, 1966 (age 57) Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1994–present
Television	Two Guys and a Girl, Monk
Spouse(s)	Jarel Portman ​ (m. 2011)​
Children	2

Traylor Elizabeth Howard (born June 14, 1966) is an American actress. Her TV roles include Sharon Carter on Two Guys and a Girl, Joy Byrnes on Boston Common and Natalie Teeger on Monk.

Early life

Howard was born in Orlando, Florida, to Peggy E. (née Traylor) and Robert M. Howard, Jr., president of the Howard Fertilizer and Chemical Company. She attended Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando, Florida. She went on to graduate from Florida State University with a degree in communications and advertising and a minor in English.

Career

While in middle school, Howard appeared in a Juicy Fruit chewing gum commercial. Howard started her career in 1994 when she appeared in one of the "You Will" series of television commercials for AT&T Corporation.

Howard's first major role in television was the two-season sitcom Boston Common as Joy Byrnes, a doctoral student love interest of Anthony Clark's Boyd Pritchett. Howard's hometown newspaper, The Orlando Sentinel, panned the show as "magna cum lousy."

Howard then starred as Sharon Carter, the titular "girl" of the ABC sitcom Two Guys and a Girl (titled Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place for the first two seasons) along side Ryan Reynolds, from 1998 to 2001. Like Boston Common, Two Guys and a Girl was set in Boston, Massachusetts. After the third season of Two Guys and a Girl aired, Traylor featured as Jim Carrey's bride in the full-length movie Me, Myself & Irene.

In 1999 she appeared in the Foo Fighters' music video "Breakout". During the third season of The West Wing, Howard made a guest appearance. She was the romantic lead in the Norm Macdonald film Dirty Work.

In July 2000, Howard appeared in the play How I Fell in Love by playwright Joel Field at the Williamstown Theater Festival in North Adams, Massachusetts. It was reported that actor George Clooney visited Howard during her time at the festival.

In 2002, she starred in the short-lived sitcom Bram & Alice alongside actor Alfred Molina.

Howard's next major role was from 2005 to 2009 as Natalie Teeger, assistant to Tony Shalhoub's Adrian Monk on the USA Network television series Monk.

In March 2023, Traylor was announced as a cast member in a scheduled full-length movie for Peacock, Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie, reprising her role as Natalie Teeger. The movie is set to release on December 8, 2023.

Personal life

In 1991, Howard married Cameron B. Hall in Orlando, Florida.The couple then lived in Beverly Hills, California.

In April 2003, Howard married Christian Navarro, a wine merchant. The couple divorced in 2005. In November 2006, Howard gave birth to a son, Sabu.

In 2011, Howard married Jarel Portman (son of John C. Portman Jr.). They have a son, Julien.

Filmography

Film

Television