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Linda Wallem is a United States actress, writer, and producer. Wallem was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised in Rockford, Illinois. She is also the sister of actor Stephen Wallem - who co-stars on her show Nurse Jackie, as a nurse named Thor. Wallem began her career at Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She and fellow writer-performer Peter Tolan formed a double act called Wallem & Tolan and began performing on the cabaret circuit in New York City at such venues as the Manhattan Punch Line. Broadway veteran Martin Charnin caught the act and worked with the duo... MORE

Linda Wallem is a United States actress, writer, and producer. Wallem was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised in Rockford, Illinois. She is also the sister of actor Stephen Wallem - who co-stars on her show Nurse Jackie, as a nurse named Thor. Wallem began her career at Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She and fellow writer-performer Peter Tolan formed a double act called Wallem & Tolan and began performing on the cabaret circuit in New York City at such venues as the Manhattan Punch Line. Broadway veteran Martin Charnin caught the act and worked with the duo to present it as an Off Broadway called Laughing Matters in 1989. Wallem appeared in the 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle as the waitress from whom star Meg Ryan's character buys coffee from on the road. On Seinfeld Wallem played Hildy, the waitress who refuses to serve Elaine Benes her customary "big salad" in the 1994 episode "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 (1993–1996). Wallem wrote for the Cybill Shepherd television situation LESS