---
name: "Linda Wallem"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/linda-wallem"
fi1m_id: "linda-wallem"
imdb_id: "nm0908980"
tmdb_id: 1212453
wikidata_id: "Q613691"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "29 May 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-07T15:13:07.278158+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."
---

# Linda Wallem

## Identity

Linda Wallem

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/linda-wallem
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** linda-wallem
- **IMDb ID:** nm0908980
- **TMDB ID:** 1212453
- **Wikidata ID:** Q613691
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Wallem, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q613691, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908980/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1212453

Producer and director. Born 29 May 1961 in Wisconsin, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 29 May 1961, Wisconsin, USA
- **Active:** 1993–2009
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 directing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 78 (1), 2000s 72 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Wallem, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q613691, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908980/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1212453

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Nurse Jackie*](https://film.one/tv/nurse-jackie.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Linda Wallem is an American actress, writer, producer and director. She was born on 29 May 1961 in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised in Rockford, Illinois. She began her career performing improv and comedy in Minneapolis before moving into writing for television.

Wallem wrote for series including *Cybill* and *That '70s Show*, serving as executive producer on the latter. She co-created the Showtime series *Nurse Jackie* (2009) with Liz Brixius and Evan Dunsky, and acted as showrunner and executive producer for its first four seasons. She has also appeared in films such as *Sleepless in Seattle* (1993) and provided voice work for *Rocko's Modern Life*.

Her brother, actor Stephen Wallem, played a recurring role on *Nurse Jackie*. She married singer Melissa Etheridge in 2014.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *Sleepless in Seattle* (1993), Fi1m 78, as Loretta — [page](https://film.one/film/sleepless-in-seattle.md)

### Directed (1)

- *Nurse Jackie* (2009), Fi1m 72, Consulting Producer, Writer, Executive Producer, Director, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/nurse-jackie.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling* (2019), as Dr. Hutchinson / Aunt Gretchen / Female Giraffe (voice)
- *Whitney* (2011), series, Consulting Producer
- *Nurse Jackie* (2009), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Director, Consulting Producer, Creator — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/nurse-jackie.md)
- *Help Me Help You* (2006), series, Co-Executive Producer
- *The Comeback* (2005), series, Co-Executive Producer, Writer
- *Jake in Progress* (2005), series, Writer
- *That '80s Show* (2002), series, Producer, Writer, Creator
- *Days Like These* (1999), series, Producer, Creator
- *That '70s Show* (1998), series, as Nurse Phillips, Jinx Mandell · Writer
- *Sour Grapes* (1998), as TV Producer
- *Cybill* (1995), series, as Danielle, Sylvia, Julie · Writer
- *Rocko's Modern Christmas* (1994), as Dr. Hutchinson / Virginia Wolfe / Cindy Wolfe (voice)
- *Love Affair* (1994), as Lorraine
- *She TV* (1994), series, Actor
- *Rocko's Modern Life* (1993), series, Actor
- *The Second Half* (1993), series, as Annie
- *Sleepless in Seattle* (1993), as Loretta — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/sleepless-in-seattle.md)
- *Good Advice* (1993), series, as Mrs. Nolan
- *The Carol Burnett Show* (1991), series, Writer
- *Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day* (1990), as Mother (voice)
- *Home* (1990), as Deborah
- *Seinfeld* (1989), series, as Hildy — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md)

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