Shailene Woodley

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Summary

Shailene Woodley is an actor and producer known for The Descendants, The Fault in Our Stars, the Divergent films, and Big Little Lies. Her roles often center on young women facing personal crises, and she has spoken about the value of strong female characters and women supporting one another. Outside her screen work, she was arrested protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock, later served on the board of Bernie Sanders’s Our Revolution, and has advocated for ocean conservation and climate action, including an equitable clean-energy transition. She has described environmentalism as connected to wider social injustice; no public LGBTQ advocacy or DEI role is on record.