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Shailene Diann Woodley (born November 15, 1991) is an American actress. She had her first major role as the lead character, Amy Juergens, in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–13). She made her feature film debut in the independent American drama The Descendants (2011), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe, followed by a leading performance in The Spectacular Now (2013), for which she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.
Woodley gained commercial success in 2014 when she was cast as the protagonist, Beatrice "Tris" Prior, in The Divergent Series (2014–present) and as Hazel Grace Lancaster in The Fault in Our Stars (2014), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award.
Woodley was born in San Bernardino County, California, but grew up in Simi Valley, California. Her mother, Lori (née Victor), is a school counselor, and her father, Lonnie Woodley, is a school principal. Her father is of English descent and her mother has African American, Creole, English, and Swiss ancestry. She has a younger brother. She modeled at the age of four. When she was 15 she was diagnosed with scoliosis. She was put in a chest-to-hips plastic brace to stop her spine from curving further.