Shailene Woodley
American actress and activist celebrated for her compelling performances across film and television, from young adult blockbusters to prestige drama.
Shailene Woodley - Personal Information
- Name: Shailene Woodley
- Date of Birth: November 15, 1991
- Place of Birth: Simi Valley, California, USA
- Gender: Female
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Executive Producer, Producer
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.
Selected Filmography
A look at Shailene Woodley's most recent work across film and television.
- Motor City (2025) as Sophia
- Paradise (TV - 2025) as Annie Clay
- Killer Heat (2024) as Penelope Vardakis
- Three Women (TV - 2024) as Gia
- Hope in the Water (TV - 2024) as Self
- Materia Viva (2024) as Self
- Ferrari (2023) as Lina Lardi
- Dumb Money (2023) as Caroline Gill
- Robots (2023) as Elaine
- To Catch a Killer (2023) as Eleanor Falco
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