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Shailene Woodley
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Shailene Diann Woodley is an American actress. Woodley was born in San Bernardino County, California, but grew up in Simi Valley and her mother, Lori, is a school counselor, and her father, Lonnie Woodley, is a school principal. She also has a younger brother, at the age of fifteen, she was diagnosed with scoliosis and was put in a chest-to-hips plastic brace to stop her spine from curving further. Woodley attended Simi Valley High School and modeled at the age of four and she also took some acting classes with Anthony Meindl. She also originally played the young Kaitlin Cooper in The O. C. and appeared as the titular character Felicity Merriman in the television film Felicity and her performance received another Young Artist Award nomination, this time for Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special. Following this, Woodley appeared in numerous guest roles in television series, including Everybody Loves Raymond, My Name is Earl, CSI, NY, Close to Home. Woodley was then cast as the character, Amy Juergens, in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager. The show explores the effects of her pregnancy on her family, friends, ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly praised her performance stating that Woodleys performance lifts a well-meaning, rather brave, but ramshackle show a notch. Popular among viewers, the show one of ABC Familys most watched telecast throughout its five-season run. In 2011, Woodley made her film debut in The Descendants, where she played Alex. Her performance received reviews from critics. Scott from The New York Times said, Ms. Woodley. one of the toughest, smartest, most credible adolescent performances in recent memory. Peter Debruge from Variety said that her performance is a revelation, receiving accolades for her performance, Woodley received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female. People named her one of 2012 Most Beautiful at Every Age, Woodley was also considered one of the 55 faces of the future by Nylon Magazines Young Hollywood Issue. Woodley starred in the adaptation of Tim Tharps novel, The Spectacular Now, as Aimee Finecky. The film premiered at Sundance on January 18,2013, additionally, Woodley won the Special Jury Award for Acting, alongside Teller, at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. She had also signed on to star in White Bird in a Blizzard, in the film she plays teenager Katrina Kat Connors, whose life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears. In October 2012, it was announced that Woodley was offered the role of Mary Jane Watson in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, on June 19,2013, it was announced that she was cut from the film
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The WB
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The WB Television Network was an American television network that was first launched on broadcast television on January 11,1995 as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company, on January 24,2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment announced plans to shut down the network and launch The CW later that same year, the WB Television Network shut down on September 17,2006, with select programs from both it and competitor UPN moving to The CW when it launched the following day, September 18. Time Warner re-used The WB brand for a network that launched on April 28,2008. The website could only be accessed within the United States, on November 2,1993, the Warner Bros. Only five of these stations – along with a sixth that Tribune acquired the following year – would join The WB at launch, when the network was announced, The WB planned to run a predominately network programmed schedule over time. The WB Television Network premiered on January 11,1995, with the episode of The Wayans Bros. as its first program. The classic Warner Bros. cartoon character Michigan J. Frog appeared on-air as the official mascot. Much of the branding was based around Warner Bros. locations and characters. Pictures shield logo, network promotions and imaging campaigns for The WB, the networks first programs were mostly sitcoms targeted at an ethnically black audience. Even though four of the five shows that debuted in the netlets first nine months were renewed beyond the first year – The Wayans Bros, unhappily Ever After, The Parent Hood and Sister, Sister – none of them made a significant impact. On August 17,1995, the Tribune Company acquired a 12. 5% on March 31,1997, the WB expanded its programming to Sunday nights for the 1995–96 season, but none of the new shows managed to garner much viewing interest. The WB continued to expand in the 1996–97 season, adding programming on Monday nights and this season gave The WB modest hits in the Aaron Spelling-produced family drama 7th Heaven and comedies The Steve Harvey Show and The Jamie Foxx Show. The WB first began to experience success with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and it debuted with the highest Monday night ratings in the networks history, attracting not only new teenage viewers, but new advertisers as well. The networks breakout hit and, arguably, its series was Dawsons Creek. At the start of the 1998–99 season, the network expanded its programming to Thursday nights, for the 1999–2000 season, the network concluded its primetime expansion with the addition of programming on Friday nights. During this season, The WB was the network to have gains in its total audience viewership. As the teen boom of the late 1990s began to wane, although teen-oriented fare like Popular and Roswell had premiered to strong ratings, both series saw serious ratings erosion in their sophomore seasons, leading the network to cancel them both
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