Shailene Woodley
Shailene Woodley
Shailene Diann Woodley is an American actress. She first gained mainstream attention playing Amy Juergens on the ABC Family television series Secret Life of the American Teenager, later she gained critical success playing Alexandra "Alex" King in a Golden Globe-nominated performance in The Descendants, Aimee Finecky in The Spectacular Now, Hazel Grace Lancaster in The Fault in Our Starsand Beatrice "Tris" Prior in The Divergent Series. She will play Lindsay Mills in Snowdenand Jane Chapman in the upcoming HBO miniseries...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth15 November 1991
CitySimi Valley, CA
CountryUnited States of America
So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.
I never thought Hollywood is the life I want to do. I thought acting is the life I want to do.
Everything that I own and use are in a carry-on suitcase,
I live my life with a lot of integrity based on what I want for my life and who I am.
Every single journey that I've embarked on, I've learned something new.
As women, we are constantly told that we need to compare ourselves to a girl in school, to our co-workers, to the images in a magazine. . . . How is the world going to advance if we're always comparing ourselves to others?
This earth is exciting. There are so many things happening.
You really can't prepare for anything in life. The second you know what's going to happen, there's always a curve ball, so I'm just chillin', cruising along for the ride.
I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.
My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.
I had never been to Hawaii, and now I say that my body is from L.A. but my heart is from Hawaii, because I'm in love with it and it's home on every level, from a spiritual, soulful place.
I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.
Working with a green screen is so different than working with another human.
I'm a pretty romantic person, I love little notes.