About Shailene Woodley
Shailene Diann Woodley (born January 15, 1991) is an American actress. Woodley's breakthrough role came as Amy Juergens in the ABC Family teen drama series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013). She then starred in the films The Descendants (2011), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination, and The Spectacular Now (2013). Woodley achieved wider recognition for her starring role as a teenage cancer patient in the romantic drama film The Fault in Our Stars (2014) and as Beatrice Prior in the science-fiction trilogy The Divergent Series (2014–2016). For her performance as a sexual assault survivor in the HBO drama series Big Little Lies (2017–2019), she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She has since appeared in the films Snowden (2016), Adrift (2018), The Mauritanian (2021), Ferrari (2023), and To Catch a Killer (2023), the latter of which she also produced. Woodley made her Broadway debut in Leslye Headland's family dramedy play Cult of Love (2024), for which she was honored with a Theater World Award. She is also an environmental activist and a Greenpeace Oceans Ambassador, and serves on a number of boards dedicated to environmental causes. She is co-founder of the nonprofit organization All it Takes, which focuses on youth development. Woodley was discovered by an agent while she was taking a local theater class, which was part of a $700 program she begged her parents to enroll her in after accompanying her cousin to a theater class in her hometown. She then starred in the films The Descendants (2011), for which she received her first Golden Globe Award nomination, and The Spectacular Now (2013). Consequently, she was awarded the Trophée Chopard at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and the 2012 Santa Barbara International Film Festival Virtuoso Award.
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