Talk about a birthday that almost went awry. Ron Howard’s wife narrowly escaped a disaster after her hair went up in flames while blowing out candles on her birthday cake. The Hollywood director ...

Ron Howard has four kids with his wife of nearly 50 years, Cheryl Emily Weaver is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously appeared in ...

Ron shares Bryce with wife Cheryl Howard, whom he met in high school and married in 1975. They also share three other children: twin daughters Jocelyn and Paige, 40, and son Reed, 37.