1. Shailene Diann Woodley was born on November 15,1991 and is an American actress.
81 Facts About Shailene Woodley
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Shailene Woodley first gained prominence for her starring role as Amy Juergens in the ABC Family teen drama series The Secret Life of the American Teenager.
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Shailene Woodley then starred in the films The Descendants and The Spectacular Now, receiving her first Golden Globe Award nomination for the former.
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Shailene Woodley has since played supporting roles in the films Snowden, The Mauritanian and Ferrari, and starred in Adrift and The Last Letter from Your Lover.
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Shailene Woodley is a Greenpeace Oceans Ambassador and has helped the organization lobby for certain environmental policy proposals, notably the High Seas Treaty and the Global Plastic Pollution Treaty.
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Shailene Woodley is a member of Conservation International's board and GoodLeap's Advisory Council.
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Shailene Woodley serves as a board member of the political action committee, Our Revolution and a co-founder of the nonprofit organization All it Takes, which focuses on youth development.
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Shailene Woodley's mother, Lori, is a middle school counselor and her father, Lonnie, is a former school principal and a family therapist.
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Shailene 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.
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Shailene Woodley told The Hollywood Reporter that her parents only agreed to allow her to work professionally if she promised to adhere to three rules: "I had to stay the person they knew I was; have fun; and do good in school".
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Shailene Woodley was a 4.0 student, who took AP classes and graduated at Simi Valley High School.
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Shailene Woodley considered studying Interior Design at New York University but never had the chance to, as her acting career became more demanding since she signed on to star in The Secret Life of the American Teenager.
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Shailene Woodley's condition did not affect her work on set as she "would [just] take the brace off during filming and put it back on during breaks".
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Shailene Woodley began her acting career in 1999 with a minor role in the television film Replacing Dad.
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Shailene Woodley went on to feature in minor television roles in The District and Crossing Jordan.
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Shailene Woodley originally played the young Kaitlin Cooper in The OC.
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Shailene Woodley appeared as the titular character Felicity Merriman in the television film Felicity: An American Girl Adventure.
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Shailene Woodley's performance received another Young Artist Award nomination, this time for Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries, or Special.
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Shailene Woodley was cast as the main character, Amy Juergens, in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager, about a 15-year-old girl who learns she is pregnant.
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In 2011, Shailene Woodley made her feature film debut in Alexander Payne's The Descendants, where she played Alex, the troubled elder daughter of Matt King.
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Shailene Woodley [gives] one of the toughest, smartest, most credible adolescent performances in recent memory.
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Shailene Woodley received the Emerging Star Spotlight Award at Elle 20th Annual "Women In Hollywood".
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Shailene Woodley starred in the film adaptation of Tim Tharp's novel, The Spectacular Now, as Aimee Finecky, an innocent, bookish teenager who begins dating the charming, freewheeling high-school senior Sutter Keely.
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In October 2012, Shailene Woodley was offered the role of Mary Jane Watson in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
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Shailene Woodley had signed on to star in White Bird in a Blizzard, directed by Gregg Araki.
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In 2014, Shailene Woodley starred as Beatrice "Tris" Prior in the film Divergent, an adaptation of Veronica Roth's best-selling young-adult novel of the same name, and the first installment in The Divergent Series.
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Shailene Woodley was the first and only actress considered for the role of Tris.
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Shailene Woodley had sessions of fight training, gun training, and knife training with stunt coordinator Garrett Warren.
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Shailene Woodley received the 2014 CinemaCon's Female Star of Tomorrow Award.
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Also in 2014, Shailene Woodley starred as Hazel Grace Lancaster in The Fault in Our Stars, the film adaptation of John Green's novel of the same name.
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Shailene Woodley's performance received critical acclaim; Peter Travers in Rolling Stone called her a "sublime actress with a resume that pretty much proves she's incapable of making a false move on camera", and Richard Roeper of Chicago Sun-Times called her performance as Hazel Oscar-worthy, adding, "she's that memorable".
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In 2015, Shailene Woodley reprised her role as Tris in The Divergent Series: Insurgent, the second installment in The Divergent Series.
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Shailene Woodley reprised her role again in the penultimate film of the series Allegiant.
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Lionsgate had planned for the final film in the series, named Ascendant, to be made for television, but Shailene Woodley announced that she would not be a part of it.
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Shailene Woodley added, "I want to do justice to everybody who believes in the character of Tris as much as I believe in the character of Tris".
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Shailene Woodley next starred opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Oliver Stone's biographical thriller Snowden, in which Gordon-Levitt portrayed Edward Snowden and Woodley portrayed Lindsay Mills, Snowden's girlfriend.
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Shailene Woodley was nominated for an Emmy and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television respectively for her role.
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Shailene Woodley reprised her role as Jane Chapman for the second season in 2019.
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Shailene Woodley starred in and produced the biographical film Adrift, with Baltasar Kormakur as director.
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Shailene Woodley learned sailing and did her own stunts on the film, ninety percent of which was shot on the open ocean off Fiji.
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Shailene Woodley was awarded the Rising Star Award during the 2018 Deauville Film Festival.
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In 2019, Shailene Woodley starred in the romantic drama Endings, Beginnings alongside Sebastian Stan, Jamie Dornan, and Matthew Gray Gubler.
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Shailene Woodley played Daphne, a contemporary character attempting to get her life on track through self-realization.
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Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said that "it's the performances that carry the day with Shailene Woodley raising the bar in every scene".
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In 2021, Shailene Woodley had a supporting role in Kevin Macdonald's real-life Guantanamo Bay drama film The Mauritanian alongside Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Shailene Woodley portrayed Teri Duncan, the junior associate of defense lawyer Nancy Hollander.
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Shailene Woodley had a small role in the critically acclaimed film The Fallout.
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Shailene Woodley next starred in and executive produced the romantic drama The Last Letter from Your Lover alongside Felicity Jones, based on the bestselling book by Jojo Moyes.
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Shailene Woodley played Jennifer Stirling, a 1960s married woman caught in an illicit love affair, leading her to discover her place in the society and who she truly loves.
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Sophie Kaufman of Time Out said, "Shailene Woodley has such raw intensity as a performer that she shows up any tired elements of a film production, just as silk shows up polyester".
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In 2023, Shailene Woodley starred in and produced the crime thriller film To Catch a Killer.
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Rex Reed of Observer said, "Shailene Woodley plays it on the verge of mental and physical exhaustion, rubbing the pain from her eye, giving every scene a little something extra" and further stated that she "adds another laurel to her already impressive resume".
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Shailene Woodley next starred opposite Jack Whitehall in the sci-fi comedy Robots, which is a film directorial debut of the screenwriting duo Anthony Hines and Casper Christensen.
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Shailene Woodley portrayed Lina Lardi, mistress of Ferrari founder Enzo Ferrari, in Michael Mann's biopic Ferrari.
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Shailene Woodley starred as a fictionalized version of author Lisa Taddeo in the drama series Three Women, based on Taddeo's non-fiction book of the same name.
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Shailene Woodley next starred in Philippe Lacote's mystery thriller Killer Heat, alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Richard Madden, set in Crete, Greece.
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Shailene Woodley stated, "I'm such a happy, optimistic person in real life for some reason, I have a great time taking out my alter-ego, dark side on screen".
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Shailene Woodley insisted, "I'm not a good actor, just a professional listener".
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Shailene Woodley was reported to be in a relationship with NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers in 2020.
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Shailene Woodley confirmed she was engaged to Rodgers in a February 22,2021 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
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Shailene Woodley received the Philanthropy Award at Variety fourth Annual Power of Youth event for the significant contributions made by All it Takes.
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Shailene Woodley supported and campaigned for Bernie Sanders for president in 2016.
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Shailene Woodley organized the Up to Us movement, a cross country caravan to the Democratic National Convention.
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In 2016, Shailene Woodley protested against the Dakota Access Pipeline, an underground petroleum transport pipeline.
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Shailene Woodley was arrested for criminal trespassing in Saint Anthony, North Dakota.
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The arrest was broadcast as it happened, as Shailene Woodley was about to end her two-hour-long Facebook livestream of the protest.
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Consequently, Shailene Woodley gained support from fellow celebrities which created further DAPL discourse.
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Shailene Woodley reportedly posted bail for her and the 26 other protestors and was, subsequently, released.
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Shailene Woodley pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year of probation.
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In mid-2016, Shailene Woodley joined the board of Our Revolution, a political organization aimed to educate voters about issues, get people involved in the political process, support progressive policies such as Medicare for All, and work to organize and elect progressive leaders.
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On September 29,2016, Shailene Woodley was honored at the 20th Anniversary Global Green Environmental Awards, receiving the Entertainment Industry Environmental Leadership Award for co-founding All it Takes.
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Shailene Woodley received the Advocate Award at the 2016 InStyle Awards, for her work in uplifting others and championing those in need.
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Shailene Woodley has expressed her insistence on clean and renewable energy.
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In 2018, Shailene Woodley took activist Calina Lawrence to the 75th Golden Globe Awards as her guest.
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Shailene Woodley has lent her voice to several environmental campaigns such as the Conservation International's Nature Is Speaking series, focusing on its goal to reframe why conservation is important and personify different aspects of nature.
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Shailene Woodley is a member of Conservation International's Leadership Council, dedicated to advancing the organization's mission through each member's expertise, community connections, and philanthropic support.
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In July 2019, Shailene Woodley became an Oceans Ambassador for Greenpeace and embarked on a three-week-long expedition to the Sargasso Sea to study the impact of plastics and microplastics on marine life, and to document the importance of this unique ecosystem for protection under a new global ocean treaty that is being negotiated at the United Nations.
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Shailene Woodley wrote a piece for Time, titled "How I'm Changing My Life to Help Save the Seas", chronicling the time she spent on the Greenpeace ship and the actions to take to save the marine life.
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In 2020, Shailene Woodley partnered with Karun, a certified B Corp that creates high-quality eyewear using recycled waste like fishing nets, ropes, and metals collected by local rural entrepreneurs.
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In 2022, Shailene Woodley became inaugural member of GoodLeap's Advisory Council, which brings renowned experience from a variety of sectors, to help GoodLeap continue its exponential growth and mission to connect a world where everyone can live more sustainably.
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In 2023, Shailene Woodley joined Greenpeace in Paris, demanding the United Nations create a strong and ambitious Global Treaty that will effectively end plastic pollution.