Linda Wallem

Linda Wallem is United States actress, writer, and producer born in 1961 in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised in Rockford, Illinois.

Background

Wallem began her career at Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Wallem and fellow writer-performer Peter Tolan formed a double act called Wallem & Tolan and began performing on the cabaret circuit in New York at such venues as the Manhattan Punch Line. Broadway veteran Martin Charnin caught the act and worked with the duo to present it as a revue off-Broadway as "Laughing Matters" in 1989. When the act broke up, Linda wrote for and performed with Carol Burnett and Cybill Shepherd, but may have made her most indelible impressions with two iconic performances as waitresses: in the movie "Sleepless in Seattle", she is the waitress that Meg Ryan buys coffee from on the road, and on the TV series "Seinfeld", she played Hildy, the waitress who memorably refuses to serve Elaine her customary "big salad" in The Soup. Young viewers are likely to recognize her voice as Doctor Paula Hutchison and Virginia Wolfe and other female characters on the Nickelodeon animated television series, "Rocko's Modern Life". In 2005, she was Executive producer of the TV show "That '70s Show". In 2007, Wallem and Liz Brixius created and produced a pilot for "Insatiable" for the premium cable network Showtime, but the series was not picked up. In 2008, it was announced that Wallem would be writing and executive producing a new comedy for Showtime in which Edie Falco of "The Sopranos" would play "an iron-willed Gotham nurse balancing the challenges of work in an urban hospital and a difficult personal life", according to Variety.

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NAME=Wallem, Linda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Perske, Betty Joan
SHORT DESCRIPTION=American actress
DATE OF BIRTH=16 September 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH=New York City
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