Allegiant

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The Divergent Series

The Divergent Series is a feature film series based on the Divergent novels by the American author Veronica Roth. The series is distributed by Summit Entertainment and consists of four science-fiction dystopian action adventure films produced by Lucy Fisher, Pouya Shabazian, and Douglas Wick and stars Shailene Woodley and Theo James as the two leading characters, Beatrice "Tris" Prior and Tobias "Four" Eaton while Ansel Elgort, Zoë Kravitz and Miles Teller play as the three main supporting characters, Caleb Prior, Christina and Peter Hayes. Two directors have worked on the series; Neil Burger directed the first film and Robert Schwentke directed the next two films.

The series began development in 2011 when Summit Entertainment acquired the film rights to Divergent with production company Red Wagon Entertainment. After Divergent grossed $4.9 million in Thursday late nights screenings, Summit Entertainment announced they would begin production on Insurgent; they had acquired the rights to the novel Allegiant in December 2013 with a two-part adaptation of the novel being announced in April 2014.

Shailene Woodley

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.

Early life

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.

Divergence (disambiguation)

Divergence is a function that associates a scalar with every point of a vector field.

Divergence or Divergent may also refer to:

Mathematics

Theo James

Theodore Peter James Kinnaird Taptiklis (born 16 December 1984), known as Theo James, is an English actor. He is known for portraying Jed Harper in Bedlam, Walter William Clark, Jr. in the crime drama Golden Boy and Tobias "Four" Eaton in the film adaptations of Veronica Roth's dystopian sci-fi novels, The Divergent Series.

Early life and education

James was born on 16 December 1984 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. He is the son of Jane (née Martin) and Philip Taptiklis. His paternal grandfather was Greek (he moved from the Peloponnese to New Zealand). His other ancestry is English and Scottish. The youngest of five children, Theo has two brothers and two sisters. He attended Aylesbury Grammar School and went on to earn his undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Nottingham. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Career

Acting

James made his television debut in A Passionate Woman, starring opposite Billie Piper. He played Turkish diplomat Kemal Pamuk in an episode of the first season of Downton Abbey. James starred in Bedlam, playing the lead role of Jed Harper. He appeared in the 2012 adaptation of John Braine's Room at the Top as Jack Wales.