Shailene Diann Woodley was born on 15 November 1991, in Simi Valley, California USA, of English, Louisiana Creole, Swiss and African-American descent. She is a television and film actress perhaps best recognized as the leading actress in the 2014 romantic drama film “The Fault in Our Stars”.
So how rich is Shailene Woodley? Sources estimate her current net worth to be over $9 million. This impressive amount has been accumulated from her work as a movie and television actress.
Shailene Woodley Net Worth $9 Million
Shailene began her career as an adult actress in 2002 when she appeared in a couple of television shows – drama series “Without a Trace” and television drama “The District”. During the next few years, she continued starring on television, appearing in the police procedural television series “CSI: NY” and “Cold Case” in 2007, and a year later became the lead character in the teenage drama “The Secret Life of the American Teenager”. For her performance in these series she was nominated for four Teen Choice Awards between 2009 and 2012.
Shailene Woodley began appearing in feature films only in 2011. Her debut in “The Descendants” was a success – she won a MTV Movie Award for “Breakthrough Performance”, several Film Critic awards, and has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the category of “Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture”, plus being nominated for two Gotham Awards. This new-found recognition opened a new page in Shailene’s career and had a positive influence on her net worth. In 2012 she appeared in the romantic comedy “The Spectacular Now” for which she won a Sundance Film Festival US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting.
2014 was a productive year for Shailene too – she starred as a lead actress in the drama thriller “White Bird in a Blizzard”, and science fiction movie “Divergent”. While both of these movies were fairly successful, her most iconic appearance was her portrayal of Hazel Grace, the main character in the romantic drama entitled “The Fault in Our Stars”, a beautiful yet heart-breaking love story between two teenagers who suffer from cancer. The film was based on the best-selling novel by John Green and, as predicted, it attracted young viewers all over the world.
Shailene Woodley has won two MTV Movie Awards (in nominations of “Best Female Performance” and “Best Kiss”), three Teen Choice Awards (in “Choice Movie Actress: Drama”, “Choice Chemistry” and “Choice Liplock”) and Hollywood Film Award (for “Breakout Performance Actress”). So far “The Fault in Our Stars” has been the most successful movie of Shailene’s career and has greatly increased her net worth.
In her personal life, Shailene Woodley is known to be dating Theo James. She is currently living in California, but has no permanent residence, explaining in an interview that, instead, she chooses to travel around with her suitcase, and stay at her friends’ or family’s homes – apparently said friends and family don’t object.
