Shailene Woodley

Shailene Diann Woodley (born November 15, 1991) is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Amy Jurgens in the ABC Family series The Serect Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013) and for co-starring alongside George Clooney in the critically acclaimed 2011 film The Descendants, for which she won the Independent Spirit Award Best Supporting Female and was nominated for the Globen Globe Award for Best Supporing Actress - Motion Picture.For her performance in the film The Spectacular Now, she won the Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Woodley starred as Beatrice Prior in the film adaptation of Veroncia Roth's novel Divergent , and will play Hazel Grace Lancaster in the film adaptation of John Green's novel The Fault in Our Stars.

Early Life
Woodley was born in Simi Valley, California. Her mother, Lori (nee Victor), is a middle school counselor, and her father, Lonnie Woodley, is a school principal.She has a younger brother, Tanner.She began her career through commercial modeling, at the age of four. When she was 15 and a freshman, her parents divorced and she was also diagnosed with scoliosis . She was put in a chest-to-hips plastic brace to straighten her spine. Before landing the role of Amy Juergens in The Secret Life of the American Teenager (where her character got pregnant), Woodley thought of studying interior design at New York University after high school. She attended Simi Valley High School.

Career
In 2002, she appeared in small television roles on Without a Trace and The District. In 2005, she was nominated for a Young Artist Award (YAA) in the Category: Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special—Leading Young Actress for her role in A Place Called Homeas California Ford. She also originally played Kaitlin Cooper in The O.C. She appeared as Felicity Merriman in Felicity: An American Girl Adveture, for which she received a Young Artists award nomination in the Category: Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special (Comedy or Drama). This is one of two TV specials that Woodley appeared in with John Schndider. She did some acting classes with Anthony Meindl She appeared on  Crossing Jordan as a young Jordan, as well as other television series including Everbody Loves Raymond, My Name Is Earl, CSI:NY, and Close To Home. In 2007, Woodley appeared in Cold Case as Sarah Gunden, the murder victim's younger Amish sister, who originally brought the case to the investigators' attention. Woodley starred in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager as Amy Juergens, a 15 year old who discovers she is pregnant. The show explores the effects of her pregnancy on her family, friends and herself as well as life at Ulysses S.Grant High School in California. In 2011, Woodley made her feature film debut in a breakout performance in The Descendants, for which she received critical acclaim and has been nominated for a Golden Globe and more than a dozen other awards.She also won the Independent Spirit Award. In this film, she starred alongside George Clooney as Alexandra King, the troubled daughter of Clooney's character.People named her one of 2012 Most Beautiful at Every Age. Woodley was also considered one of the 55 faces of the future by  Nyon Magazine' s "Young Hollywood Issue".

Woodley starred in the film adaptation of Tim Tharp's novel, The Spectaular Now. She played a social outcast girl trying to plan for the future who meets a boy who is a senior in high school who likes to party and live in the moment. Production of the film occurred in the summer of 2012 and it premiered at Sundance in January 2013. She has also recently signed on to star in White Bird, an independent film about a troubled young woman whose life is upended following the mysterious disappearance of her mother, directed by Gregg Araki. In October 2012, it was announced that Woodley was offered the role of Mary Jane Waston in The Amazing Spider- Man 2.On June 19, 2013, it was announced that Mary Jane was cut from the film. Director Marc Webb told The Hollywood Reporter that the cut was "a creative decision to streamline the story and focus on Peter and Gwen and their relationship," and that everyone loved working with Woodley.

On March 19, 2013, it was announced that Woodley had accepted the role starring as Hazel Grace Lancaster in the film adaptation of John Green's novel The Fault in Our Stars. Green added via Twitter about Woodley; "There were so many amazing auditions for the role of Hazel, but Shailene's love for the book and her understanding of Hazel blew me away." The film, directed by Josh Boone, will be released on June 6, 2014.

Woodley starred as Tris Prior in the movie Divergent , an adaptation of Veronica Roth’s young adult novel. The movie was released on March 21, 2014. Woodley will reprise her role as Tris in the sequel of Divergent, with Insurgent scheduled to start filming in May 2014 and a release date of March 20, 2015. She will reprise her role again in the two-part finale of the franchise, Allegiant — Part 1 and Part 2, with Part 1 to be released on March 18, 2016 and Part 2 on March 24, 2017.

Filmography

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Awards and Nominations
List of Awards and Nominations recevied by Shailene Woodley