Laura Slade Wiggins

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Laura Slade Wiggins
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Wiggins in 2010
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
  • musician
Years active2006–present
Spouse
Kyle Weishaar
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(m. 2018)​
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Laura Slade Wiggins is an American actress and singer. Wiggins began her career with guest appearances on television series such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2010) and Private Practice (2011) before her breakthrough role as the self-destructive teenager Karen Jackson on the television series Shameless from 2011 to 2013, appearing as a part of the main cast in seasons one and two, and a recurring role in season three.

Following Shameless, Wiggins notably had a recurring role on the science fiction television series The Tomorrow People (2013). In film, Wiggins has appeared in Starving in Suburbia (2014), 20th Century Women (2016), Rings (2017), Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019), and Stand! (2019). As a singer, Wiggins made her debut with the EP Clementine (2012).

Early life

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Wiggins is the daughter of Kathy Wiggins and prominent Athens attorney Mark Wiggins.[2] She has one brother.[3]

Career

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She has guest starred in various shows including Eleventh Hour,[4] and in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation titled "World's End".[5] She also played a pregnant teenager in an episode of the fourth season of Private Practice called "The Hardest Part".[6] She had a recurring role in the 2013 series The Tomorrow People.[7] From 2011 to 2013, Wiggins appeared in her first significant role as a series regular in the Showtime black comedy series Shameless as the troubled promiscuous teenager Karen Jackson, the daughter to agoraphobic Sheila (Joan Cusack) and a love interest to Lip Gallagher (Jeremy Allen White). Wiggins was a part of the main cast in seasons one and two, and had a recurring role in season three.[8] Following Shameless, Wiggins had a leading role as a girl struggling with an eating disorder in the Lifetime television film Starving in Suburbia (2014).[9][10]

In 2014, Wiggins appeared in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Comic Perversion" as Carly Rydell.[11] In 2017, Wiggins appeared in the horror film Rings, the third installment of the Ring franchise.[12] In 2019, she played a supporting role in the Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase.

Personal life

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Wiggins married stuntman Kyle Weishaar in Colbert, Georgia on June 23, 2018.[13]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2008 Dance of the Dead BFF #1
2011 Day of the Living Amy Short film
2012 Hit List 13-yr old Charlotte
2014 The Ganzfeld Haunting Molloy
Hard Drive Debs
2016 Take Flight Grace
20th Century Women Lynette Winters
2017 Rings Faith
Cradle Swapping Michelle
Jax In Love Daisy Short film
2019 Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase Helen Corning
Stand! Rebecca Almazoff
Along Came the Devil 2 Jordan
2020 InstaPsycho Maddie Reynolds

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2006 Not Like Everyone Else Kimberly Television film
2007 Girl, Positive Lindsey Carter Television film
2008 Eleventh Hour Belinda Shea Episode: "Flesh"
2010–2014 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Zoe Tate / Singer #4 Episode: "Dead Rails" (as Zoe Tate),
Episode: "World's End (as Singer #4)
2011 Private Practice Lisa Episode: "The Hardest Part"
Cooper and Stone Maya Television film
2011–2013 Shameless Karen Jackson 30 episodes
2012 The Finder Claire Episode: "Eye of the Storm"
Blackbox TV Monica Stratford Episode: "Silverwood: Red Ink"
2013 Perception Patti Walace Episode: "Toxic"
The Cheating Pact Meredith Porter Television film
2013–2014 The Tomorrow People Irene Quinn 5 episodes
2014 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Carly Rydell Episode: "Comic Perversion"
Intelligence Rebecca Strand Episode: "Cain and Gabriel"
Starving in Suburbia Hannah Warner Television film
2015 Comedy Sketch TV Time, Okay? Siri Episode: "Holographic iPhone Siri"
2017 Chicago P.D. Juliana Parks Episode: "Remember the Devil"

References

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