# Laura Slade Wiggins

Laura Slade Weishaar (née Wiggins) is an American actress, singer, musician, and realtor. She is most known for her roles in Shameless, The Tomorrow People, Starving in Suburbia and Rings.

## Early life

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

## Career

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. Wiggins joined the Showtime dramedy Shameless, as Karen Jackson, a series regular.
In 2014, Wiggins appeared in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Comic Perversion" as Carly Rydell. Wiggins played the main character "Hannah Warner" in Starving in Suburbia which aired on Lifetime on April 26, 2014. 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.

## Personal life

Wiggins married stuntman Kyle Weishaar in Colbert, Georgia on June 23, 2018. In 2021, the two had a daughter. On February 21, 2024, her second daughter, Elizabeth, was born.

## 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 | |
| 2014 | Hard Drive | Debs | |
| 2016 | Take Flight | Grace | |
| 2016 | 20th Century Women | Lynette Winters | |
| 2017 | Rings | Faith | |
| 2017 | Cradle Swapping | Michelle | |
| 2017 | Jax In Love | Daisy | Short film |
| 2019 | Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase | Helen Corning | |
| 2019 | Stand! | Rebecca Almazoff | |
| 2019 | 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" |
| 2011 | Cooper and Stone | Maya | Television film |
| 2011–2013 | Shameless | Karen Jackson | 30 episodes |
| 2012 | The Finder | Claire | Episode: "Eye of the Storm" |
| 2012 | Blackbox TV | Monica Stratford | Episode: "Silverwood: Red Ink" |
| 2013 | Perception | Patti Walace | Episode: "Toxic" |
| 2013 | 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" |
| 2014 | Intelligence | Rebecca Strand | Episode: "Cain and Gabriel" |
| 2014 | 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" |