Leslie Stefanson


Leslie Stefanson is an American actress and sculptor. She is most known for playing the title role as Capt. Elisabeth Campbell in the film The [General's Daughter (film)|The General's Daughter], and Joan Bennett Kennedy in the television miniseries Jackie, Ethel, Joan: [The Women of Camelot]. Her sculpture, La Bestia, won the top prize from the National Sculpture Society in 2019.
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Stefanson was born in Fargo, North Dakota in 1971, and raised in Moorhead, Minnesota, the youngest of three girls. Her father, Randy Gustafson, was a lawyer while her mother, Corinne, operated a clothing store. She is of Icelandic heritage, with her paternal grandparents, Skúli Stefánsson and Heffie Einarson, emigrating from Iceland. She studied literature in New Jersey at Drew University and in New York City at Columbia University. In 1993, she graduated with a degree in English literature from Barnard College. She was a member of a New York theater group, modeled, and appeared in an advertisement for Lee's Jeans in 1997, which was shown during the Super Bowl.
In August 2008, Stefanson gave birth to her first child, a son, with actor James Spader.
As of 2024, she makes bronze and terracotta sculptures in New York City.