---
name: "Karen Laws"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/karen-laws"
fi1m_id: "karen-laws"
imdb_id: "nm2524484"
tmdb_id: 2789691
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:06:03.696327+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Karen Laws

## Identity

Karen Laws

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/karen-laws
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** karen-laws
- **IMDb ID:** nm2524484
- **TMDB ID:** 2789691
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2524484/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2789691

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2524484/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2789691

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Shameless*](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md) (75)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Karen Laws is a British television writer. She has written episodes of several long-running series, including *Shameless* (2012), *EastEnders* (2008–2010), *Waterloo Road* (2013–2015) and *Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators* (2022). She created and wrote the five-part series *32 Brinkburn Street* (2011).

Earlier in her career she contributed to *Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps* (2004–2005) and other programmes such as *Casualty*, *Holby City* and *Hollyoaks*. She trained on an MA in creative writing at Northumbria University after degrees in history and housing, and previously worked in local government.

*Sources: imdb.com, comedy.co.uk, chroniclelive.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Shameless* (2004), Fi1m 75, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Shameless* (2004), series, Writer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/karen-laws