What TV Shows and Movies Has Willow Shields Been In?

Beyond the Blackboard

In this 2011 TV movie, Shields played Grace, one of the students taught at a makeshift school at a homeless shelter. She acted alongside her older brother, River (pictured here, far left).

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The Hunger Games

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Shields's breakout role came when she was cast in the 2012 film adaptation of the YA novel The Hunger Games. She played Primrose Everdeen, the gentle younger sister of heroine Katniss, whose random selection for the brutal Hunger Games drives Katniss to volunteer to take her place.

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

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Shields returned as Primrose for the 2013 sequel, Catching Fire.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1

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In the third instalment of The Hunger Games, Shields's Prim is growing into a brave teenager who's training in the medical corps, taking an active but noncombative role in the growing rebellion.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2

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To close out the Hunger Games series, Shields played Prim one more time, now a teenager who's taking gradually more active roles in the rebellion while still maintaining her defining trait: her uncynical compassion.

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