Director, writer and character actress Toni Kalem was born in the suburbs of New Jersey in 1956. She began her acting career in the late 70s, and her first prominent part was in The Wanderers (1979), as Despie. She's also done soap opera and TV work, and is best known for her excellent performance as Angie Bonpensiero, the long-suffering wife of Big Pussy on "The Sopranos" (1999).Kalem was much taken by Anne Tyler's third novel, A Slipping-Down Life, originally published in 1970. At ...[Read Story]