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Shailene Woodley              

Environmental Activist & Actress Known for "Divergent"

Shailene Woodley is an American actress who gained widespread recognition for her starring role as a teenaged cancer patient in the romantic drama "The Fault in Our Stars" and as Beatrice Prior in the science-fiction trilogy "The Divergent Series." She played a sexual assault survivor in the HBO drama series "Big Little Lies," for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She has since played supporting roles in the films "Snowden" (2016), "The Mauritanian" (2021), and "Ferrari" (2023), and starred in "Adrift" (2018), "The Last Letter from Your Lover" (2021), and "To Catch a Killer" (2023). Her accolades include nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.

Woodley is also an environmental activist. She is a Greenpeace Oceans Ambassador and has helped the organization lobby for certain environmental policy proposals, notably the High Seas Treaty and the Global Plastic Pollution Treaty. She is a member of the Conservation International's Leadership Council and GoodLeap's Advisory Council. She also serves as a board member of the political action committee, Our Revolution, and a co-founder of the nonprofit organization All it Takes, which focuses on youth development.

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