Shailene Woodley
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
Movie
Divergent
as Tris
2014
Movie
The Fault in Our Stars
as Hazel Grace Lancaster
2014
Movie
Insurgent
as Beatrice 'Tris' Prior
2015
Movie
Allegiant
as Beatrice 'Tris' Prior
2016
Movie
Snowden
as Lindsay Mills
2016
Movie
The Descendants
as Alexandra King
2011
Movie
The Spectacular Now
as Aimee Finecky
2013
Movie
Adrift
as Tami Oldham
2018
TV
Big Little Lies
as Jane Chapman
2017
Movie
To Catch a Killer
as Eleanor Falco
2023
Movie
The Fallout
as Anna
2021
Movie
The Mauritanian
as Teri Duncan
2021
Movie
Ferrari
as Lina Lardi
2023
TV
My Name Is Earl
as Young Gwen
2005
TV
The O.C.
as Kaitlin Cooper
2003
Movie
Dumb Money
as Caroline Gill
2023
Movie
White Bird in a Blizzard
as Kat Connor
2014
TV
CSI: NY
as Evie Pierpont
2004
Movie
The Last Letter from Your Lover
as Jennifer Stirling
2021
TV
Everybody Loves Raymond
as Snotty Girl
1996
TV
Paradise
as Annie Clay
2025
TV
Cold Case
as Sarah Gunden (2006 & 2007)
2003
TV
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
TV
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2014
