Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1942
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Shailene Woodley works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Shailene Woodley appears in 21 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Shailene. The Fault in Our Stars is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for crime, history, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Janus Metz, Potsy Ponciroli, Craig Gillespie and others, Shailene Woodley helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
The Fault in Our Stars (2014) as Hazel Grace Lancaster · The Fallout (2021) as Anna · The Mauritanian (2021) as Teri Duncan
Career snapshot
Ranked #1942 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
21
2011–2026
Career length
15 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
The Fault in Our Stars
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.6
The Fault in Our Stars
Most frequent director
Robert Schwentke
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Robert Schwentke
Most common genre
Drama
13 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.3
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.8 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Adrift, Allegiant, Snowden — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.8
Across 9 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Adrift, Allegiant, Snowden.
Most productive era
2020s
12 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.95 films | 6.78 films |
| Action | 6.63 films | 6.31 film |
| Thriller | 6.74 films | 5.14 films |
| Comedy | 6.82 films | 6.32 films |
| Crime | 7.11 film | 4.84 films |
| Romance | 7.13 films | 6.34 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2011The Descendants
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Alexandra King.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Motor City
The current state of the argument, as Sophia.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
21 of 21 films
as Hazel Grace Lancaster
Directed by Josh Boone
as Jennifer Stirling
Directed by Augustine Frizzell
as Tris
Directed by Neil Burger
as Lindsay Mills
Directed by Oliver Stone
as Eleanor Falco
Directed by Damián Szifron
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Hazel Grace Lancaster
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Performance score8.2
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Hazel Grace Lancaster gives Shailene Woodley a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Jennifer Stirling
The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)
Performance score7.7
The Last Letter from Your Lover asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Jennifer Stirling is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Tris
Divergent (2014)
Performance score7.7
Divergent asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Tris is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Lindsay Mills
Snowden (2016)
Performance score7.5
Snowden asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Lindsay Mills is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Hazel Grace Lancaster
Start here. The Fault in Our Stars is the clearest statement of what Shailene Woodley does — accessible, 126 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Shailene at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Divergent (2014)
A deliberate change of key after The Fault in Our Stars — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Snowden (2016)
A deliberate change of key after Divergent — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)
Keeps the drama register of Snowden but asks for a colder reading of it.
To Catch a Killer (2023)
Keeps the drama register of The Last Letter from Your Lover but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Robert Schwentke
Director
2 films together
Notably Insurgent
Alexander Payne
Director
1 film together
Notably The Descendants
James Ponsoldt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Spectacular Now
Neil Burger
Director
1 film together
Notably Divergent
Gregg Araki
Director
1 film together
Notably White Bird in a Blizzard
Josh Boone
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fault in Our Stars
Oliver Stone
Director
1 film together
Notably Snowden
Baltasar Kormákur
Director
1 film together
Notably Adrift
Kevin Macdonald
Director
1 film together
Notably The Mauritanian
Megan Park
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fallout
Augustine Frizzell
Director
1 film together
Notably The Last Letter from Your Lover
Casper Christensen
Director
1 film together
Notably Robots
Damián Szifron
Director
1 film together
Notably To Catch a Killer
Michael Mann
Director
1 film together
Notably Ferrari
Craig Gillespie
Director
1 film together
Notably Dumb Money
Potsy Ponciroli
Director
1 film together
Notably Motor City
Janus Metz
Director
1 film together
Notably Unabomber
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Robert Schwentke
Director
2 films together · 6.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
InsurgentJosh Boone
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fault in Our StarsMegan Park
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The FalloutKevin Macdonald
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The MauritanianAugustine Frizzell
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Last Letter from Your LoverOliver Stone
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SnowdenNeil Burger
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DivergentAlexander Payne
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DescendantsDamián Szifron
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
To Catch a KillerBaltasar Kormákur
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AdriftCraig Gillespie
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dumb MoneyJames Ponsoldt
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Spectacular NowMichael Mann
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FerrariPotsy Ponciroli
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Motor CityGregg Araki
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
White Bird in a BlizzardCasper Christensen
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RobotsJanus Metz
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
UnabomberSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Fault in Our Stars
as Hazel Grace Lancaster
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Fault in Our Stars
as Hazel Grace Lancaster
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Fault in Our Stars
as Hazel Grace Lancaster
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Fallout
as Anna
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Fault in Our Stars
as Hazel Grace Lancaster
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Shailene Woodley has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
13 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Fault in Our Stars
as Hazel Grace Lancaster
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Snowden
as Lindsay Mills
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Ferrari
as Lina Lardi
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Allegiant
as Beatrice 'Tris' Prior
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Divergent
as Tris
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Divergent
as Tris
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Dumb Money
as Caroline Gill
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Ocean Dreams
as Narrator (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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