Shailene Diann Woodley born November 15, [ 1 ] is an American actress. She then starred in the films The Descendants and The Spectacular Now , 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 and as Beatrice Prior in the science-fiction trilogy The Divergent Series β Woodley is also an environmental activist. She 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.
She also 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. Woodley grew up in Simi Valley, California.
Both of her parents are psychologists. Shailene has a younger brother, Tanner. She 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".
Woodley was a 4. In order to graduate with her class while starring in an ABC Family TV show, which she booked in the middle of her junior year , a teacher would go to her house once a week and bring all the work she missed at school, which she would do at home or in her trailer on set, in-between takes.
