Laura Slade Wiggins
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.
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- Laura Slade Wiggins
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- * Actress
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- United States.
- Languages
- English.
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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.
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Biography
Biography
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!
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Laura Slade Wiggins • Occupation — * Actress • singer • musician • Years Active — 2006–present • Children — 2
Early life
Early life
Wiggins is the daughter of Kathy Wiggins and prominent Athens attorney Mark Wiggins. She has one brother.
Career
Career
• Illustration — Wiggins playing and singing in 2010 She has guest starred in various shows including Eleventh Hour, and in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation titled "World's End". She also played a pregnant teenager in an episode of the fourth season of Private Practice called "The Hardest Part". 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. 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.” 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. She portrays Debs, a runaway harboring a secret past. Wiggins subsequently had a leading role as a girl struggling with an eating disorder in the Lifetime television film Starving in Suburbia (2014). In 2014, Wiggins appeared in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Comic Perversion" as Carly Rydell. In 2017, Wiggins appeared in the horror film Rings, the third installment of the Ring franchise. 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). 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." Neil Weisensel of The Globe and Mail praised Wiggins' performance in a "complex ingenue role."
Personal life
Personal life
Wiggins married stuntman Kyle Weishaar in Colbert, Georgia on June 23, 2018.
Television
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"
Life and career
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The full dated record · 1 entries
1988
Laura Slade Wiggins was born on 8 August 1988.
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
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- 1.https://www.instagram.com/p/DNgLlR2gJeu/
- 2.Mark Wiggins. wnc-law.com.
- 3.My brother is the one with the Mohawk! He's the reason I #keepitreal #HappySiblingsDay. Twitter. April 10, 2016.
- 4.Dudak, Cory. We're 'Shameless' With Our Love for Laura Wiggins. CraveOnline.com. February 25, 2015.
- 5.Star Scoop, The. Laura Wiggins Interview: Everybody was kind of terrified of Shameless!. The Star Scoop. February 27, 2011.
- 6.Wagner, Curt. Shameful 'Shameless' audition won Laura Wiggins her role. Red Eye Chicago. January 8, 2012.
- 7.Wieselman, Jarret. Get To Know: Laura Slade Wiggins. Page Six. March 25, 2011.
- 8.Sneider, Jeff. Actors log 'Hard Drive' roles. Variety. November 14, 2012.
- 9.Barnard, Linda. Hard Drive takes unlikely romance on the road: review. Toronto Star. August 14, 2014.
- 10.Laura Wiggins in "Starving in Suburbia. Los Angeles Times.
- 11.Neumyer, Scott. Laura Slade Wiggins Talks Thinspiration, Starving in Suburbia & Shameless. Parade.com. April 25, 2014.
- 12.Law and Order Special Victims Unit. TVGuide.com.
- 13.McNary, Dave. The Ring' Threequel Delayed for the Third Time by Paramount. Variety. September 22, 2016.
- 14.King, Randall. Stand! kicks off with gala event in city. Winnipeg Free Press. September 25, 2019.
- 15.Weisensel, Neil. Winnipeg General Strike musical Stand! delivers a meaningful story and Broadway-worthy tunes. The Globe and Mail. November 27, 2019.
- 16.Briese, Nicole. Pics! 'Shameless' Star Laura Slade Wiggins Reveals Wedding Album. US Magazine. July 20, 2018.
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