Shailene Diann Woodley is an American actress, film producer, and activist. She first gained prominence for her starring role as Amy Juergens in the ABC Family drama series The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Woodley made her film debut in The Descendants in 2011, and went on to star in the coming-of-age film The Spectacular Now. From 2017 to 2019, she played a sexual-assault survivor in the HBO drama series Big Little Lies.
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Shailene Diann Woodley is an American actress, film producer, and activist. She first gained prominence for her starring role as Amy Juergens in the ABC Family drama series The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Woodley made her film debut in The Descendants in 2011, and went on to star in the coming-of-age film The Spectacular Now. From 2017 to 2019, she played a sexual-assault survivor in the HBO drama series Big Little Lies, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She is an environmental activist and has served as a board member of the super PAC Our Revolution. Her portrayal of Aimee Finee in the film adaptation of Tim Tharp’s novel, The Spectacle Now, gained praise from critics. She won a Cannes Trophée Chopard as well as received a nomination for the Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, and the Independent Spirit People named her one of the 55 most beautiful women of the age of 55 at the 2012 Nylon Age Issue. She has a younger brother, Lonnie Woodley, who is a school principal. She was diagnosed with scoliosis when she was 15 and was put in a chest-to-hips plastic brace to stop her spine from curving further. She also had a role in the television film A Place Called Home, which earned her a Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actress in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special.
She appeared in numerous guest roles in other television series, including Everybody Loves Raymond, My Name is Earl, CSI: NY, Close to Home, and Cold Case. She originally played the young Kaitlin Cooper in The O. C. and appeared as the titular character Felicity Merriman in the TV film Felicity: An American Girl Adventure. Her performance received positive reviews from critics, with one calling it “one of the toughest, smartest, most credible adolescent performances in recent memory” and another saying it was a “revelation” and that she displayed both the edge and depth the role demands. Her role in The Fault in Our Stars received accolades for her performance as a teenaged cancer patient in the romantic drama The Fault In Our Stars and as Beatrice Prior in the science-fiction film The Divergent Series. In 2011, Woodley played Alex, the troubled elder daughter of Matt King, in the feature film TheDescendants, where she received a nominations for Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. In 2013, she starred in the adaptation of the novel The Finee, as an innocent, freewheeling high-school senior dating the charming, freetheeling-high school senior, Aimey Finee. She had a minor role in The District and Crossing Jordan, and was named one of 2012’s Most Beautiful at the Age of 55.
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