Shailene Woodley

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 20082013 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 sciencefiction trilogy The Divergent Series 20142016 She played a sexual assault survivor in the HBO drama series Big Little Lies 20172019 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