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.
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Full filmography
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self - Guest
- Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) as Self - Guest
- Without a Trace (2002) as Young Clare
- Crossing Jordan (2001) as Young Jordan Cavanaugh
- The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019) as Self
- CSI: NY (2004) as Evie Pierpont
- Conan (2010) as Self
- The O.C. (2003) as Kaitlin Cooper
- Cold Case (2003) as Sarah Gunden (2006 & 2007)
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self - Guest
- Paradise (2025) as Annie Clay
- Everybody Loves Raymond (1996) as Snotty Girl
- Close to Home (2005) as Gaby Tursi
- My Name Is Earl (2005) as Young Gwen
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003) as Self
- The District (2000) as Kristin Debreno
- MTV Movie & TV Awards (1992) as Self
- The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008) as Amy Juergens
- Big Little Lies (2017) as Jane Chapman
- Divergent (2014) as Tris
- Insurgent (2015) as Beatrice 'Tris' Prior
- Three Women (2024) as Gia
- The Fault in Our Stars (2014) as Hazel Grace Lancaster