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SHAILENE WOODLEY

Actress
BORN November 15, 1991
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HEIGHT 5'3" (1.60 m)
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NATIONALITY American
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YEARS ACTIVE 2005 – Present
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.

🗉 QUICK FACTS

  • Nick Name Shailene
  • Born November 15, 1991
  • Height 5'3" (1.60 m)
  • Nationality American
  • Citizenship American
  • Education Studied Dramatic Arts / Private performance training
  • Current Status Active (Recently in Killer Heat, Motor City)
  • Years Active 2005 – Present
  • Occupation Actress
  • Family Background Private Family Background
  • Early Career 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.
  • Partner Private
  • Children 1
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