Education
As a child, she moved with her family to Florida, where she attended Olympic Heights Community High School in Boca Raton.
As a child, she moved with her family to Florida, where she attended Olympic Heights Community High School in Boca Raton.
She has been cast in the upcoming Home Box Office series Westworld. There, she began acting and later caught the attention of a casting director for Nickelodeon"s Clarissa Explains lieutenant All. She also starred in several local community plays.
Woodward"s first on-screen acting job came in 1991 when she played the occasionally recurring role of Missy on cable network Nickelodeon"s Clarissa Explains lieutenant All.
She reprised this role twice during the show"s five seasons. First, alongside Clarissa star Melissa Joan Hart in the 1995 made-for-television drama Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare.
Then in 1995, she played Lucy in her second made-for-television film, Tornado!. In 1997 she played an uncredited role in the Columbia Broadcasting System miniseries True Women.
Between 2000 and 2007, Woodward played a number of minor roles in various television shows including The Drew Carey Show, Grounded for Life, Malcolm in the Middle, Crossing Jordan, Without a Trace, Psychology, and Boston Public.
Woodward"s big-screen debut came in 2005 when she played Emma Sharp, the daughter of Texas Ranger Roland Sharp (Tommy Lee Jones), who is assigned to protect a group of University of Texas cheerleaders who witnessed a murder in the action comedy Manitoba of the House. In 2007, Woodward got her big break in the series The Riches, which aired for two seasons (2007–2008) on cable network Forex. After The Riches ended, Woodward played the role of Leah in the teen supernatural/horror film The Haunting of Molly Hartley. Woodward"s return to television was the 2009 pilot Limelight, about a New York City school for performing arts
The series was not picked up.
That same year, Woodward played a recurring role on National Broadcasting Company"s Emergency in the fifteenth and final season as Kelly Taggart, the younger sister of nurse Samantha "Sam" Taggart. She also starred in another teen thriller The Shortcut.
In 2010, Woodward starred in the independent drama Girlfriend. She also played the lead character in the 2015 ensemble comedy-drama The Breakup Girl.
From September 2010 to April 2014 Woodward starred in the FOX sitcom Raising Hope, which also starred Cloris Leachman and Martha Plimpton.
She played Sabrina, a grocery store checkout clerk who is the love interest of Jimmy Chance, the series lead played by Lucas Neff.