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
I started studying indigenous cultures and I was really inspired by their life styles and the way that they lived. Part of that was knowing how to survive in the wild and knowing how to heal themselves from the plants that grew around them.
When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.
I'd always wanted to do a film than TV show because film is always where my heart has been. I like diving into the character for a few months, and then leaving it behind. I love the idea of that.
You turn on the shower or you do whatever, but especially right now with the drought in California, there are so many resources that we are depleting so quickly. And so, I thought it would be an interesting skill set to have if something were to go down, or even if it weren't. It's not post-apocalyptic idealism. It's more just like a fun hobby.
I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.
Everything is out of your control, and you can only be truthful about how you feel.
I fall in love with human beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they are.
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.
As a teenager, my struggle was how do I balance being empathetic and compassionate towards my peers, while also living my life for myself and not basing my decisions on those around me, and really living a life where I receive my happiness from my own experiences rather than from people pleasing.
Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.
Every single character in the world, every creature in the world has something to give and something to learn.
Working with a green screen is so different than working with another human.
Have you thanked your body today? Be grateful, stay positive.
I think everything everything about my lifestyle is fairly alternative. I gather my own spring water from mountains every month. I go to a farm to get my food. I make everything from my own toothpaste to my own body lotions and face oils. I could go on for hours. I make my own medicines; I don’t get those from doctors. I make my own cheese and forage wild foods and identify wild plants. It’s an entire lifestyle. It’s appealing to my soul.