Shailene Woodley
✓ Source-basedlegacyAmerican actress (born 1991)
She went from ABC Family's pregnant teen to the girl who made dystopian franchises look serious, then carved out a second act playing women who survive the unspeakable - a trajectory that earned her an Emmy and proved range matters more than a brand.
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Woodley at KIIS-FM's Wango Tango in Los Angeles, September 2009
Woodley at the 19th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival at Sagaponack, New York in October 2011
Woodley in October 2014 at the French premiere of White Bird in a Blizzard in Paris
Woodley speaking at San Diego Comic-Con in 2016
Woodley at an event in 2024
Woodley at Web Summit 2016 - Future Societies, November 2016Filmography 37
Divergent
Insurgent
The Fault in Our Stars
Allegiant
Snowden
To Catch a Killer
The Spectacular Now
The Fallout
The Descendants
Adrift
Ferrari
Dumb Money
The Last Letter from Your Lover
The Mauritanian
White Bird in a Blizzard
Killer Heat
Endings, Beginnings
Robots
Once Upon A Mattress
Felicity: An American Girl Adventure
Final Approach
Moola
Awake, a Dream from Standing Rock
A Place Called Home
Replacing Dad
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
The Revolution Generation
9 Kisses
Motor City
Ocean Dreams
Materia Viva69 credits on file
Television 24
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Without a Trace
Conan
CSI: NY
Crossing Jordan
Cold Case
The O.C.
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Everybody Loves Raymond
Paradise
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
My Name Is Earl
The District
Close to Home
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
Big Little Lies
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Entertainment Tonight
Jack & Bobby
Three Women
Teen Choice Awards
Paradise: Official PodcastAwards 9
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About this person
Woodley broke through at seventeen on The Secret Life of the American Teenager, then pivoted hard with The Descendants in 2011, earning her first Golden Globe nomination as George Clooney's angry daughter. The teen drama trifecta followed - The Spectacular Now, The Fault in Our Stars, and the Divergent trilogy - making her a fixture for a generation navigating grief and rebellion on screen. She shifted again with Big Little Lies in 2017, playing a sexual assault survivor with enough rawness to land an Emmy nomination, then won the award outright for Paradise in 2026. Between films like Snowden, The Mauritanian, and Ferrari, she made her Broadway debut in Cult of Love in 2024, picking up a Theater World Award. Off screen, she co-founded the nonprofit All it Takes and serves as a Greenpeace Oceans Ambassador, turning activism into a parallel career.
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