.jpg.html){kind=link}
Shailene Woodley 2018 (cropped).jpg on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Shailene Diann Woodley (born November 15, 1991) is an American actress. Born in San Bernardino, California, Woodley was raised in Simi Valley, California, 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'' (2008–2013). She subsequently starred in the films ''The Descendants'' (2011) and ''The Spectacular Now'' (2013), receiving a nomination for her first Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, 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 (film), ''The Fault in Our Stars'' (2014) and as Beatrice Prior in the science-fiction trilogy ''The Divergent Series'' (2014–2016). She played a sexual assault survivor in the HBO drama series ''Big Little Lies (TV series), Big Little Lies'' (2017–2019), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, Primetime Emmy Award. She has since played supporting roles in the films ''Snowden (film), Snowden'' (2016), ''The Mauritanian'' (2021) and ''The Fallout (film), The Fallout'' (2021), and starred in ''Adrift (2018 film), 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.
Woodley began her acting career in 1999 with a minor role in the television film ''Replacing Dad''. She went on to feature in minor television roles in ''The District'' and ''Crossing Jordan'' (in the latter, she portrayed the 10-year-old version of Jill Hennessy's title character). She followed with a leading role in the television film ''A Place Called Home'' (2004) as California Ford, which earned her a nomination for a Young Artist Award for 26th Young Artist Awards, Best Leading Young Actress in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special. She also originally played the young Kaitlin Cooper in ''The O.C.'' She appeared as the titular character Felicity Merriman in the television film ''Felicity: An American Girl Adventure'' (2005). Her performance received another Young Artist Award nomination, this time for Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries, or Special (Comedy or Drama). Following this, Woodley appeared in numerous guest roles in other television series, including ''Everybody Loves Raymond,'' ''My Name is Earl,'' ''CSI: NY,'' ''Close to Home (2005 TV series), Close to Home,'' and ''Cold Case (TV series), Cold Case.''
Woodley was then cast as the main character, Amy Juergens, in the ABC Family series ''The Secret Life of the American Teenager'' (2008–2013), about a 15-year-old girl who learns she is pregnant. The show explores the effects of her pregnancy on her family, friends, and herself, as well as life at Grant High School (Los Angeles), Grant High School. Ken Tucker of ''Entertainment Weekly'' praised her performance, stating, "[It] lifts a well-meaning, rather brave, but ramshackle show a notch." Popular among viewers, the show became one of ABC Family Worldwide, ABC Family's most-watched telecasts throughout its five-season run, spanning over 121 episodes.
In October 2012, Woodley was offered the role of Mary Jane Watson in ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2.'' On June 19, 2013, she 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 Spider-Man, Peter and Gwen Stacy, Gwen and their relationship," and that everyone loved working with Woodley.
She had also signed on to star in ''White Bird in a Blizzard,'' directed by Gregg Araki. Although filming took place in October 2012, the film was not released until January 20, 2014, at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival and then on October 24, 2014, to wider audiences, where it received mixed reviews. In the film, she plays teenager Katrina "Kat" Connors, whose life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears. Critic Moira MacDonald commended her by saying, "Woodley's depiction of Kat is low-key, natural, and utterly unaffected; as she has in every role, she makes the character her own, with her scratchy little voice and level gaze."
In 2014, Woodley starred as Tris Prior, Beatrice "Tris" Prior in the film ''Divergent (film), Divergent,'' an adaptation of Veronica Roth's best-selling Divergent (novel), young-adult novel of the same name, and the first installment in ''The Divergent Series.'' Set in a dystopian and postapocalyptic Chicago, the film received mixed reviews, but Woodley's performance as Tris received a positive reception; Sam Allard from ''Orlando Weekly'' said, "with her performance as Tris Prior in ''Divergent,'' Woodley rescues and then raises up a film that could have been an utter disaster." ''Divergent'' reached the number-one spot at the box office during its opening weekend, and was a financial success.
Also in 2014, Woodley starred as Hazel Grace Lancaster in ''The Fault in Our Stars (film), The Fault in Our Stars,'' the film adaptation of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, novel of the same name. She portrayed a 16-year-old cancer patient who meets and falls in love with Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort, who also played her brother in the ''Divergent'' series), a similarly afflicted teen from her cancer support group. Green said 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 was a blockbuster success, grossing over $307 million worldwide. Woodley's performance received critical acclaim; Peter Travers in ''Rolling Stones, Rolling Stone'' called her a "sublime actress with a résumé 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". On November 14, 2014, she received 18th Hollywood Film Awards, The Hollywood Film Award for Hollywood Breakout Performance – Actress for her depiction of Hazel.
Given her career breakthrough and continuing success since her film debut, she earned a nomination for the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2015.
In 2015, Woodley reprised her role as Tris in ''The Divergent Series: Insurgent,'' the second installment in ''The Divergent Series.'' Her performance once again received critical acclaim, with Daniel M. Kimmel of ''New England Movies Weekly'' writing, "Woodley does solid work here as she's done elsewhere, and continues to be someone to watch." Despite a more negative critical reception than the previous film, ''Insurgent'' was commercially successful, making nearly $100 million in its worldwide debut and grossed $295.2 million worldwide. She reprised her role again in the penultimate film of the series ''The Divergent Series: Allegiant, Allegiant'' (2016). The film, however, was poorly reviewed by critics and a box-office bomb. Lionsgate had planned for the final film in the series to be made for television, but Woodley announced that she would not be a part of it.
She next starred opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Oliver Stone's biographical thriller ''Snowden (film), Snowden'' (2016), in which Gordon-Levitt portrayed Edward Snowden. Owen Gleiberman, Owen Gleiberman's review said that Woodley "gives a performance of breathtaking dimension: As the movie goes on, she makes Lindsay supportive and selfish, loving and stricken."
Starting in 2015, Woodley took a break from filming for nearly a year and considered quitting as an actor, stating in a later interview that she "had hit a wall with acting" and "felt it was time to do something different". But she eventually "fell in love" with acting again through Big Little Lies (TV series), ''Big Little Lies (TV series)''. In 2017, Woodley starred as a sexual assault survivor, alongside Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, in the HBO critically acclaimed drama series ''Big Little Lies (TV series), Big Little Lies'' directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. Sarah Rense of ''Esquire (magazine), Esquire'' called Woodley's performance "underrated" and "brought a quiet complexity", adding that "she was the most realistic character" and her "cool demeanor interrupted by sudden, short outbursts - just seemed so real to anyone who thinks more than they talk". She was nominated for an Emmy Awards, Emmy and Golden Globe Awards, 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. She reprised her role as Jane Chapman for the second season in 2019.
She also starred in and produced the biographical film ''Adrift (2018 film), Adrift'' (2018), with Baltasar Kormákur as director. Woodley learned sailing and did her own stunts on the film, ninety percent of which was shot on the open ocean off Fiji. Daniel Feingold from ''WSVN'' called her performance as Tami Oldham Ashcraft, a real-life sailor who was stranded at sea after a storm, "Oscar-worthy". Owen Gleiberman of ''Variety (magazine), Variety'' called her "a sensual actress", stating that she "has the gift of making sensuality dramatic; there's a beautiful severity to her features that allows you to feel the things she's showing you. That's a talent, but it's also an instinct". Woodley was awarded the Rising Star Award during the 2018 Deauville Film Festival.
In 2019, Woodley starred in the romantic drama ''Endings, Beginnings'' alongside Sebastian Stan, Jamie Dornan, and Matthew Gray Gubler. In 2021, she starred in the real-life Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Guantanamo Bay drama film ''The Mauritanian'' alongside Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim and Benedict Cumberbatch and also had a small supporting role in the critically acclaimed film ''The Fallout (film), The Fallout''. She also starred in and executive produced the romantic drama film ''The Last Letter from Your Lover'' alongside Felicity Jones, based on the bestselling book by Jojo Moyes.
Early life
Woodley was raised in Simi Valley, California. Both her parents are psychologists. Her mother, Lori (''Given name, née'' Victor), is a school counselor, middle school counselor, and her father, Lonnie Woodley, a former Head teacher, school principal, is a Family therapy, family therapist. She has a younger brother, Tanner. At the age of five, Woodley began working in commercials, appearing in more than forty Television advertisement, TV spots, including advertisements for LeapFrog Enterprises, Leapfrog, The Hertz Corporation, Hertz and a Honda minivan. She told ''The Hollywood Reporter, 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". Woodley was a Academic grading in the United States, 4.0 student, who took Advanced Placement, AP classes and graduated at Simi Valley High School. She also took acting classes from Anthony Meindl. At fifteen, she was diagnosed with scoliosis and was put in a chest-to-hips plastic brace for two years. Woodley told ''Us Weekly'' that "It's like wearing a tacky, disgusting, plastic corset for 18 hours a day. In the beginning, it was hard to eat or breathe. And I had to give up Cross country running, cross-country running. But I needed to have it to realign my spine".Career
1999–2010: Career beginnings and ''Secret Life''
Woodley began her acting career in 1999 with a minor role in the television film ''Replacing Dad''. She went on to feature in minor television roles in ''The District'' and ''Crossing Jordan'' (in the latter, she portrayed the 10-year-old version of Jill Hennessy's title character). She followed with a leading role in the television film ''A Place Called Home'' (2004) as California Ford, which earned her a nomination for a Young Artist Award for 26th Young Artist Awards, Best Leading Young Actress in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special. She also originally played the young Kaitlin Cooper in ''The O.C.'' She appeared as the titular character Felicity Merriman in the television film ''Felicity: An American Girl Adventure'' (2005). Her performance received another Young Artist Award nomination, this time for Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries, or Special (Comedy or Drama). Following this, Woodley appeared in numerous guest roles in other television series, including ''Everybody Loves Raymond,'' ''My Name is Earl,'' ''CSI: NY,'' ''Close to Home (2005 TV series), Close to Home,'' and ''Cold Case (TV series), Cold Case.''
Woodley was then cast as the main character, Amy Juergens, in the ABC Family series ''The Secret Life of the American Teenager'' (2008–2013), about a 15-year-old girl who learns she is pregnant. The show explores the effects of her pregnancy on her family, friends, and herself, as well as life at Grant High School (Los Angeles), Grant High School. Ken Tucker of ''Entertainment Weekly'' praised her performance, stating, "[It] lifts a well-meaning, rather brave, but ramshackle show a notch." Popular among viewers, the show became one of ABC Family Worldwide, ABC Family's most-watched telecasts throughout its five-season run, spanning over 121 episodes.
2011–2014: Film debut and breakthrough
In 2011, Woodley made her feature film debut in Alexander Payne's ''The Descendants,'' where she played Alex, the troubled elder daughter of Matt King (played by George Clooney). Her performance received positive reviews from critics. A. O. Scott from ''The New York Times'' said, "Ms. Woodley [gives] one of the toughest, smartest, most credible adolescent performances in recent memory." Peter Debruge from ''Variety (magazine), Variety'' said that her performance is a "revelation" and that "in the role of Alex, [she is] displaying both the edge and depth the role demands." Following accolades for her performance, Woodley received a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female. Consequently, she was awarded the Trophée Chopard at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and the 2012 Santa Barbara International Film Festival Virtuosos Award. ''People (magazine), People'' named her one of 2012's "Most Beautiful at Every Age." Woodley was also considered one of the 55 faces of the future by ''Nylon Magazine, Nylon'' "Young Hollywood Issue". She also received the Emerging Star Spotlight Award at ''Elle (magazine), Elle''
In October 2012, Woodley was offered the role of Mary Jane Watson in ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2.'' On June 19, 2013, she 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 Spider-Man, Peter and Gwen Stacy, Gwen and their relationship," and that everyone loved working with Woodley.
She had also signed on to star in ''White Bird in a Blizzard,'' directed by Gregg Araki. Although filming took place in October 2012, the film was not released until January 20, 2014, at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival and then on October 24, 2014, to wider audiences, where it received mixed reviews. In the film, she plays teenager Katrina "Kat" Connors, whose life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears. Critic Moira MacDonald commended her by saying, "Woodley's depiction of Kat is low-key, natural, and utterly unaffected; as she has in every role, she makes the character her own, with her scratchy little voice and level gaze."
In 2014, Woodley starred as Tris Prior, Beatrice "Tris" Prior in the film ''Divergent (film), Divergent,'' an adaptation of Veronica Roth's best-selling Divergent (novel), young-adult novel of the same name, and the first installment in ''The Divergent Series.'' Set in a dystopian and postapocalyptic Chicago, the film received mixed reviews, but Woodley's performance as Tris received a positive reception; Sam Allard from ''Orlando Weekly'' said, "with her performance as Tris Prior in ''Divergent,'' Woodley rescues and then raises up a film that could have been an utter disaster." ''Divergent'' reached the number-one spot at the box office during its opening weekend, and was a financial success.
Also in 2014, Woodley starred as Hazel Grace Lancaster in ''The Fault in Our Stars (film), The Fault in Our Stars,'' the film adaptation of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, novel of the same name. She portrayed a 16-year-old cancer patient who meets and falls in love with Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort, who also played her brother in the ''Divergent'' series), a similarly afflicted teen from her cancer support group. Green said 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 was a blockbuster success, grossing over $307 million worldwide. Woodley's performance received critical acclaim; Peter Travers in ''Rolling Stones, Rolling Stone'' called her a "sublime actress with a résumé 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". On November 14, 2014, she received 18th Hollywood Film Awards, The Hollywood Film Award for Hollywood Breakout Performance – Actress for her depiction of Hazel.
Given her career breakthrough and continuing success since her film debut, she earned a nomination for the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2015.
2015–present: Further film and television work
In 2015, Woodley reprised her role as Tris in ''The Divergent Series: Insurgent,'' the second installment in ''The Divergent Series.'' Her performance once again received critical acclaim, with Daniel M. Kimmel of ''New England Movies Weekly'' writing, "Woodley does solid work here as she's done elsewhere, and continues to be someone to watch." Despite a more negative critical reception than the previous film, ''Insurgent'' was commercially successful, making nearly $100 million in its worldwide debut and grossed $295.2 million worldwide. She reprised her role again in the penultimate film of the series ''The Divergent Series: Allegiant, Allegiant'' (2016). The film, however, was poorly reviewed by critics and a box-office bomb. Lionsgate had planned for the final film in the series to be made for television, but Woodley announced that she would not be a part of it.
She next starred opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Oliver Stone's biographical thriller ''Snowden (film), Snowden'' (2016), in which Gordon-Levitt portrayed Edward Snowden. Owen Gleiberman, Owen Gleiberman's review said that Woodley "gives a performance of breathtaking dimension: As the movie goes on, she makes Lindsay supportive and selfish, loving and stricken."
Starting in 2015, Woodley took a break from filming for nearly a year and considered quitting as an actor, stating in a later interview that she "had hit a wall with acting" and "felt it was time to do something different". But she eventually "fell in love" with acting again through Big Little Lies (TV series), ''Big Little Lies (TV series)''. In 2017, Woodley starred as a sexual assault survivor, alongside Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, in the HBO critically acclaimed drama series ''Big Little Lies (TV series), Big Little Lies'' directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. Sarah Rense of ''Esquire (magazine), Esquire'' called Woodley's performance "underrated" and "brought a quiet complexity", adding that "she was the most realistic character" and her "cool demeanor interrupted by sudden, short outbursts - just seemed so real to anyone who thinks more than they talk". She was nominated for an Emmy Awards, Emmy and Golden Globe Awards, 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. She reprised her role as Jane Chapman for the second season in 2019.
She also starred in and produced the biographical film ''Adrift (2018 film), Adrift'' (2018), with Baltasar Kormákur as director. Woodley learned sailing and did her own stunts on the film, ninety percent of which was shot on the open ocean off Fiji. Daniel Feingold from ''WSVN'' called her performance as Tami Oldham Ashcraft, a real-life sailor who was stranded at sea after a storm, "Oscar-worthy". Owen Gleiberman of ''Variety (magazine), Variety'' called her "a sensual actress", stating that she "has the gift of making sensuality dramatic; there's a beautiful severity to her features that allows you to feel the things she's showing you. That's a talent, but it's also an instinct". Woodley was awarded the Rising Star Award during the 2018 Deauville Film Festival.
In 2019, Woodley starred in the romantic drama ''Endings, Beginnings'' alongside Sebastian Stan, Jamie Dornan, and Matthew Gray Gubler. In 2021, she starred in the real-life Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Guantanamo Bay drama film ''The Mauritanian'' alongside Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim and Benedict Cumberbatch and also had a small supporting role in the critically acclaimed film ''The Fallout (film), The Fallout''. She also starred in and executive produced the romantic drama film ''The Last Letter from Your Lover'' alongside Felicity Jones, based on the bestselling book by Jojo Moyes.
Upcoming projects
She will next star in ''Misanthrope (film), Misanthrope'', an upcoming thriller centered on a talented but troubled cop who is recruited by the FBI to help profile and track down a serial killer. The film is set to be directed by Damián Szifron. Woodley will serve as a producer on the film. She will star in the Thriller film, thriller ''Panopticon'' with Anthony Mackie and Jacob Latimore, which began filming in New Mexico in summer 2021. She joined Jack Whitehall in the upcoming comedy film ''Robots'', which was slated to begin filming in New Mexico in August 2021. She is set to star in the upcoming Showtime (TV network), Showtime hourlong drama series ''Three Women (TV series), Three Women'', based on the award-winning and bestselling book by Lisa Taddeo. Filming was set to begin in Fall 2021. She was also cast in ''Girl Named Sue'', a film based on the true story of Sue Webber-Brown, a DEA agent who created the Drug Endangered Children (DEC) protocol. She joined Shia LaBeouf and Robert De Niro in the upcoming crime drama ''After Exile'', with Joshua Michael Stern as director. In November 2020, she joined ''The Fence'', a political satire film that will reunite her with Miles Teller for their fifth film. The film will be directed by Grímur Hákonarson. She will also star in the animated feature film ''Scarygirl'', as well as in the romance film ''No Baggage'', which are in pre-production and development respectively. She is also attached to portray Lina Lardi, mistress of Ferrari founder Enzo Ferrari, in Michael Mann's biopic ''Ferrari (upcoming film), Ferrari''. She also joined the ensemble cast of Craig Gillespie's ''Dumb Money''.Personal life
In 2018, Woodley confirmed she was dating Australian-Fijian rugby union player Ben Volavola. In an interview with ''The Hollywood Reporter'', she said: "I fall in love with human beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they are". In April 2020, the relationship with Volavola reportedly ended. Woodley was reported to be in a relationship with NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers in 2020. In February 2021, Rodgers referred to his "fiancée" during his acceptance speech for the league's National Football League Most Valuable Player Award, MVP award at the 10th Annual NFL Honors, NFL Honors ceremony, confirming that he was engaged, but not to whom. Woodley confirmed she was engaged to Rodgers in a February 22, 2021 appearance on ''The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon''. In February 2022, it was reported that Woodley and Rodgers had ended their engagement.Activism
Woodley is an avid Environmentalism, environmental activist and climate advocate. In 2010, she and her mother co-founded the nonprofit organization ''All it Takes'', a youth leadership program that aims to educate young people to practice empathy, compassion, responsibility, and purpose in hopes to foster sustainable, positive change for themselves, others and the environment. She received the Philanthropy Award at ''Variety (magazine), Variety''Filmography
Film
Television
Music videos
Video games
Accolades
References
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Woodley, Shailene 1991 births Living people 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses Activists from California Actors from San Bernardino, California Actresses from Greater Los Angeles American child actresses American environmentalists American film actresses American footballers' wives and girlfriends American people of Creole descent American people of English descent American people of Swiss-German descent American television actresses American women environmentalists Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female winners People from Simi Valley, California