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Shailene Woodley

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Shailene Woodley

Born November 15, 1991 in Simi Valley, California, USA32 films

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.

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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.

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The Fault in Our Stars posterFirst watchThe Fault in Our Stars20147.6as Hazel Grace LancasterDespite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Divergent poster6.9Divergent2014Snowden poster7.1Snowden2016Insurgent poster6.4Insurgent2015The Descendants poster6.8The Descendants2011Allegiant poster6.1Allegiant2016Adrift poster6.8Adrift2018The Fallout poster7.5The Fallout2021The Spectacular Now poster6.7The Spectacular Now2013

Filmography

32 films as actor
  1. TBAThe Murderous Miss HighsmithPatricia Highsmith
  2. TBAJanis Joplin: Get It While You CanJanis Joplin
  3. TBAA Beautiful JourneyMary
  4. TBAUltraEve
  5. TBAMother's Helper
  6. 2026UNABOMBERJoanne Miller
  7. 2026Motor CitySophia
  8. 2024Killer HeatPenelope Vardakis
  9. 2023FerrariLina Lardi
  10. 2023Dumb MoneyCaroline Gill
  11. 2023RobotsElaine
  12. 2023To Catch a KillerEleanor Falco
  13. 2021The Last Letter from Your LoverJennifer Stirling
  14. 2021The FalloutAnna
  15. 2021The MauritanianTeri Duncan
  16. 2020Endings, BeginningsDaphne
  17. 2018AdriftTami Oldham
  18. 2016SnowdenLindsay Mills
  19. 2016AllegiantBeatrice 'Tris' Prior
  20. 2015InsurgentBeatrice 'Tris' Prior
  21. 2014White Bird in a BlizzardKat Connor
  22. 2014The Fault in Our StarsHazel Grace Lancaster
  23. 2014DivergentTris
  24. 20149 KissesBoxing Girl
  25. 2013The Spectacular NowAimee Finecky
  26. 2011The DescendantsAlexandra King
  27. 2008Final ApproachMaya Bender
  28. 2007MoolaAshley Hedges
  29. 2005Once Upon A MattressMolly
  30. 2005Felicity: An American Girl AdventureFelicity Merriman
  31. 2004A Place Called HomeCalifornia "Cali" Ford
  32. 1999Replacing DadLittle Girl