Shailene Woodley
Shailene Woodley
Biography
Shailene Diann Woodley (born November 15, 1991) is an American actress. Born in San Bernardino, California, Woodley was raised in Simi Valley, and started modeling at the age of four and began acting professionally in minor television roles. She first gained prominence for her starring role as Amy Juergens in the ABC Family teen drama series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013). She subsequently starred in the films The Descendants (2011) and The Spectacular Now (2013), receiving a nomination for her first Golden Globe Award for the former. Woodley achieved wider recognition for her starring role as a teenaged cancer patient in the romantic drama The Fault in Our Stars (2014) and as Beatrice Prior in the science-fiction trilogy The Divergent Series (2014–2016). She played a sexual assault survivor in the HBO drama series Big Little Lies (2017–2019), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. She has since played supporting roles in the films Snowden (2016), The Mauritanian (2021) and The Fallout (2021), and starred in Adrift (2018) and The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021). Woodley is also an environmental activist and serves as a board member of the political action committee, Our Revolution.
Known For
Actor
as Patricia Highsmith
as Chase
as Janis Joplin
as Penelope Vardakis
as Self
as Gia
as Self
as Lina Lardi
as Caroline Gill
as Elaine
as Eleanor Falco
as Self
as Jennifer Stirling
as Anna
as Teri Duncan
as Daphne
as Tami Oldham
as Jane Chapman
as Self
as Lindsay Mills
as Beatrice 'Tris' Prior
as Beatrice 'Tris' Prior
as Boxing Girl
as Kat Connor
as Hazel Grace Lancaster
as Beatrice 'Tris' Prior
as Self
as Aimee Finecky
as Alexandra King
as Day Trotter
as Self
as Maya Bender
as Amy Juergens
as Ashley Hedges
as Molly
as Felicity Merriman
as Young Gwen
as California "Cali" Ford
as Evie Pierpont
as Sarah Gunden (2006 & 2007)
as Kaitlin Cooper
as Young Clare
as Young Jordan Cavanaugh
as Kristin Debreno
as Little Girl
as Self
as Snotty Girl
as Self
as Self
Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer