Laura Wiggins

Laura Slade Wiggins, an actress and singer from the United States, first became known for playing Karen Jackson, a self-destructive teenager, on the Showtime series Shameless from 2011 to 2013. She was a main cast member in the first two seasons and returned in a recurring role for the third. She later had a recurring part on the science fiction show The Tomorrow People in 2013, and she had a leading role as a young woman dealing with an eating disorder in the Lifetime film Starving in Suburbia (2014). Other screen work includes a supporting role in Rings (2017), a part in Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019), and the lead in the Canadian musical Stand! (2019), an adaptation of the stage musical Strike! (2005), which brought praise from Neil Weisensel of The Globe and Mail. Born in Athens, she also released her debut extended play Clementine in 2012.