Helen Joan Stenborg (January 24, 1925 – March 22, 2011) was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She occasionally acted with her husband, actor Barnard Hughes, to whom she was married for 56 years, from 1950 until his death in 2006.
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Career
Stenborg appeared on stage in revivals of A Doll's House, A Month in the Country, and The Crucible; the original, belated US production of Noël Coward's Waiting in the Wings, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play; and the Lanford Wilson plays, The Hot l Baltimore, The Rimers of Eldritch and Talley & Son, winning the Obie Award for her performance in the latter.
She portrayed Helga Lindeman on the soap opera Another World from 1977 to 1978. Stenborg also appeared in the 1999 film, My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York, which won an Academy Award for Best Short Subject in 2000.
Personal life and death
Stenborg was married to actor Barnard Hughes for 56 years, from 1950 until his death in 2006. They had two children, a son named Doug, who became a theater director, and a daughter named Laura.
Stenborg died on March 22, 2011, aged 86, in New York City.
Partial filmography
Three Days of the Condor (1975) - Mrs. Edwina Russell
Another World (1977–1978) - Helga Lindeman
The Europeans (1979) - Mrs. Acton
Starting Over (1979) - Older Woman
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) - Mrs. McCoy
Me and Veronica (1993) - Woman at Laundromat
Homicide: Life on the Street (1994) - Isabella Kunkle
Marvin's Room (1996) - Nun on Phone
My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York (1999) - Marian
Isn't She Great (2000) - Aunt Abigail
Bless the Child (2000) - Sister Joseph
Enchanted (2007) - Ballroom Lady #1
The Caller (2008) - Jimmy's Mother
Doubt (2008) - Sister Teresa (final film role)
