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Laura Slade Wiggins
American actress, singer and musician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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).
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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,[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.
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Personal life
Wiggins married stuntman Kyle Weishaar in Colbert, Georgia on June 23, 2018.[13]
Filmography
Film
Television
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External links
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