Laura Slade Wiggins

Laura Slade Wiggins
Wiggins in 2010
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
  • musician
Years active2006–present
Spouse
Kyle Weishaar
​
(m. 2018)​
Children2[1]

Laura Slade Wiggins is an American actress and singer. She had her breakthrough role on the Showtime television series Shameless (2011-2013), where she played Karen Jackson, a self-destructive teenager. While Wiggins was a main cast member in seasons one and two, she continued in a recurring role in the third season.

After Shameless, Wiggins continued her television career with a recurring role on the science fiction 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 is the leading actress in the Canadian musical film Stand! (2019). As a singer, Wiggins made her debut with the extended play Clementine (2012).

Early life

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

Career

She has guest starred in various shows including Eleventh Hour, and in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation titled "World's End".[4] She also played a pregnant teenager in an episode of the fourth season of Private Practice called "The Hardest Part".[5] She had a recurring role in the 2013 series The Tomorrow People. 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.[6] On the frequent nudity featured throughout Shameless and Karen’s promiscuous characterization, Wiggins stated, “One of the things I like about Shameless is that the women are extremely sexual and up front with their emotions.”[7]

In 2012, Wiggins was cast as the co-lead in William D. MacGillivray’s coming of age drama film Hard Drive, which premiered in 2014.[8][9] She portrays Debs, a runaway harboring a secret past.[9] Wiggins subsequently had a leading role as a girl struggling with an eating disorder in the Lifetime television film Starving in Suburbia (2014).[10][11]

In 2014, Wiggins appeared in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Comic Perversion" as Carly Rydell.[12] In 2017, Wiggins appeared in the horror film Rings, the third installment of the Ring franchise.[13] In 2019, she played a supporting role in the Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase.

Wiggins had a leading role as Rebecca Almazoff in the Canadian musical film Stand! (2019), a film adaptation of the stage musical Strike! (2005).[14] On the film’s themes, Wiggins stated, "The story is very much needed in the States right now because we’re really having a hard time understanding that we were all immigrants once. We have this immigrant-phobia now. This story is about how all people should be treated the way you would want to be treated."[14] Neil Weisensel of The Globe and Mail praised Wiggins' performance in a "complex ingenue role."[15]

Personal life

Wiggins married stuntman Kyle Weishaar in Colbert, Georgia on June 23, 2018.[16]

Filmography

Film

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

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

  1. ^ https://www.instagram.com/p/DNgLlR2gJeu/
  2. ^ "Mark Wiggins". wnc-law.com. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  3. ^ "My brother is the one with the Mohawk! He's the reason I #keepitreal #HappySiblingsDay". Twitter. April 10, 2016. Retrieved January 5, 2019.
  4. ^ Dudak, Cory (February 25, 2015). "We're 'Shameless' With Our Love for Laura Wiggins". CraveOnline.com. Archived from the original on March 12, 2018. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  5. ^ Star Scoop, The (February 27, 2011). "Laura Wiggins Interview: Everybody was kind of terrified of Shameless!". The Star Scoop. Archived from the original on October 24, 2018. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  6. ^ Wagner, Curt (January 8, 2012). "Shameful 'Shameless' audition won Laura Wiggins her role". Red Eye Chicago. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  7. ^ Wieselman, Jarret (March 25, 2011). "Get To Know: Laura Slade Wiggins". Page Six. Retrieved January 13, 2026.
  8. ^ Sneider, Jeff (November 14, 2012). "Actors log 'Hard Drive' roles". Variety. Retrieved January 13, 2026.
  9. ^ a b Barnard, Linda (August 14, 2014). "Hard Drive takes unlikely romance on the road: review". Toronto Star. Retrieved January 13, 2026.
  10. ^ "Laura Wiggins in "Starving in Suburbia". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 24, 2018. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  11. ^ Neumyer, Scott (April 25, 2014). "Laura Slade Wiggins Talks Thinspiration, Starving in Suburbia & Shameless". Parade.com. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  12. ^ "Law and Order Special Victims Unit". TVGuide.com. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  13. ^ McNary, Dave (September 22, 2016). "The Ring' Threequel Delayed for the Third Time by Paramount". Variety. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
  14. ^ a b King, Randall (September 25, 2019). "Stand! kicks off with gala event in city". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved January 6, 2026.
  15. ^ Weisensel, Neil (November 27, 2019). "Winnipeg General Strike musical Stand! delivers a meaningful story and Broadway-worthy tunes". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved January 6, 2026.
  16. ^ Briese, Nicole (July 20, 2018). "Pics! 'Shameless' Star Laura Slade Wiggins Reveals Wedding Album". US Magazine. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
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