
Shailene Woodley
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1991-11-15 (33 years old)
Place of Birth
Simi Valley, California, USA
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.
Acting
The Murderous Miss Highsmith
as Patricia Highsmith
Untitled Janis Joplin Biopic
as Janis Joplin
(2024)
Killer Heat
as Penelope Vardakis
(2024)
Materia Viva
as Self
(2023)
Dumb Money
as Caroline Gill
(2023)
To Catch a Killer
as Eleanor Falco
(2023)
Ferrari
as Lina Lardi
(2023)
Robots
as Elaine
(2022)
The Revolution Generation
as Self
(2021)
The Fallout
as Anna
(2021)
The Mauritanian
as Teri Duncan
(2021)
The Last Letter from Your Lover
as Jennifer Stirling
(2020)
Endings, Beginnings
as Daphne
(2018)
Adrift
as Tami Oldham
(2016)
Allegiant
as Beatrice 'Tris' Prior
(2016)
Snowden
as Lindsay Mills
(2016)
(2015)
Insurgent
as Beatrice 'Tris' Prior
(2014)
Divergent
as Beatrice 'Tris' Prior
(2014)
The Fault in Our Stars
as Hazel Grace Lancaster
(2014)
White Bird in a Blizzard
as Kat Connor
(2014)
9 Kisses
as Boxing Girl
(2013)
The Spectacular Now
as Aimee Finecky
(2011)
The Descendants
as Alexandra King
(2011)
Best Coast: Our Deal
as Day Trotter
(2008)
Final Approach
as Maya Bender
(2007)
Moola
as Ashley Hedges
(2005)
Once Upon A Mattress
as Molly
(2005)
Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
as Felicity Merriman
(2004)
A Place Called Home
as California "Cali" Ford
(1999)
Replacing Dad
as Little Girl
Crew
Untitled Janis Joplin Biopic
Producer
(2023)
To Catch a Killer
Producer
(2021)
The Last Letter from Your Lover
Executive Producer
(2018)
Adrift
Producer
(2017)
Awake, a Dream from Standing Rock
Executive Producer