Helen Stenborg


Actor

About

Birth Place
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Born
January 24, 1925
Died
March 22, 2011

Family & Companions

Barnard Hughes
Husband
Actor. Married in 1950; the worked with Stenborg on stage and in television projects.

Biography

Life Events

1943

Stage acting debut in "Claudia"

1970

Returned to Broadway in "Sheep on the Runway"

1971

Acted with Hughes in "Dr. Cook's Garden" (ABC), starring Bing Crosby in his only TV-movie role

1975

Appeared in the Sydney Pollack political thriller "Three Days of the Condor"

1977

Co-starred with Hughes in the Broadway production of "Da"

1979

Was featured in the Merchant-Ivory production "The Europeans"

1979

Had a cameo in Alan J Pakula's drama feature "Starting Over"

1984

Featured in the "American Playhouse" film production "A Flash of Green"

1987

Played the matriarch of a Massachusetts fishing family in an episode of ABC's "Spencer for Hire"

1987

Appeared alongside husband in the CBS holiday telepic "A Hobo's Christmas"

1990

Played Tom Hanks' mother in Brian De Palma's feature adaptation of Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities"

1990

Acted alongside Hughes in the CBS TV-movie drama "The Incident"

1992

Appeared in the independent feature "Me & Veronica"

1995

With Hughes, acted in an episode of the acclaimed NBC police drama "Homicide Life on the Street"

1996

Had a cameo in the drama feature "Marvin's Room"

1998

Starred in the Oscar nominated student short "My Mother Dreams the Satan Disciples of New York"

2000

Acted in the Bette Miller-starring Jacqueline Susann biopic "Isn't She Great"

Family

Douglas Hughes
Son
Director. Worked at Seattle Repertory Theater.
Laura Hughes
Daughter
Actor.

Companions

Barnard Hughes
Husband
Actor. Married in 1950; the worked with Stenborg on stage and in television projects.

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