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
When I started acting, my parents gave me three rules: I had to stay good in school, stay the kid they always knew I was, and I had to have fun. If I wasn't doing those three things, then I couldn't do acting anymore.
I would love to act for the rest of my life, but I also know that it could be taken away in a day. It's something I've always loved, but it's nothing I've ever revolved my entire life around. I have many other passions as well.
When you're on set and you professionally listen to what the other actors have to say, then the emotion is naturally evoked.
I'm not an actor who approaches films doing a lot of research. I do zero research, unless it's a film where I'm playing a mock version of someone who already existed. Then, you've got to do a lot of research.
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.
George Clooney is a super-human, he's just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a better person and a better actor!
The day the process of acting becomes something that I dread is the end. Obviously, why would you do something that you hate? I won't do that.
Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.
For me acting is a passion and an art, and always will only be that. I don't have any rules when it comes to acting. I'll do anything. But it depends on the script. Either I'll have passion for the project or I won't. It's got to fuel me.
Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.
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.
I never thought Hollywood is the life I want to do. I thought acting is the life I want to do.
A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.
When I read a script or I see a character, I don't necessarily see the arc of her, that by the end she is this person, she's different from she was in the beginning. I guess it's more a subconscious understanding of that arc.