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Theater lovers already mourning Liz Taylor and Helen Stenborg lost another hero this week when 73-year-old Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of the three Talley Trilogy plays and an off-Broadway icon, died on Thursday.

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Helen Stenborg, 86, a Tony-nominated stage, film and TV actress who was the wife of the late Tony Award-winning actor Barnard Hughes and mother of the Tony Award-winning director Doug Hughes, died Tuesday at her Manhattan apartment, according to press agent Chris Boneau. The cause was not given.

Stenborg is known to soap opera fans for her role as Helga Lindeman on Another World from January 1977 to February 1978. Helga was the Cory housekeeper and a reluctant participant in several of Sven Peterson's schemes over the years. She also appeared on Ryan's Hope and One Life To Live.

Stenborg earned a Tony nomination for her 1999 role as pyromaniac Sarita Myrtle in Noel Coward's "Waiting in the Wings." She and her husband celebrated their 50th anniversary onstage in the Coward play and were honored with Drama Desk Awards for Lifetime Achievement in 2000. He died in 2006.

Stenborg's last Broadway performance was in 2002 in...

Broadway star Helen Stenborg has died at the age of 86. The actress passed away on Tuesday, March 22 at her apartment in New York.

Born in Minnesota in 1925, Stenborg became known for her numerous stints onstage. She won acclaim in touring show "Da" in the 1970s, which also featured her late husband, Barnard Hughes, and she landed a Tony nomination in 1999 for her performance in Noel Coward play "Waiting in the Wings". She also starred in Hugh Leonard's "A Life" in 1980 and teamed up with Helen Mirren in "A Month in the Country" (1995).

Stenborg and Hughes were both presented with Lifetime Achievement honors at the Drama Desk Awards in 2000. She also appeared in a variety of small film and TV roles, including U.S. series "Little House on the Prairie" and soap opera "One Life to Live".

Her last Broadway stint came in "The Crucible" in 2002, when she took the...

Broadway star Helen Stenborg has died at the age of 86.

The actress passed away on Tuesday at her apartment in New York.

Born in Minnesota in 1925, Stenborg became known for her numerous stints onstage. She won acclaim in touring show Da in the 1970s, which also featured her late husband, Barnard Hughes, and she landed a Tony nomination in 1999 for her performance in Noel Coward play Waiting in the Wings. She also starred in Hugh Leonard's A Life in 1980 and teamed up with Helen Mirren in A Month in the Country (1995).

Stenborg and Hughes were both presented with Lifetime Achievement honours at the Drama Desk Awards in 2000.

She also appeared in a variety of small film and TV roles, including U.S. series Little House on the Prairie and soap opera One Life to Live.

Her last Broadway stint came in The Crucible in 2002, when she took the stage with Liam Neeson and Laura Linney.

She also played Sister Teresa in 2008's Doubt - her final film role.

Stenborg is survived by a son and daughter. Hughes died in 2006.

"Listening" is the key to good acting, according to Helen Stenborg. Co-starring Off-Broadway at the DR2 Theatre in Morris Panych's "Vigil" gives her the chance to exercise that talent. This two-hander centers on the evolving relationship between a misanthropic young man (Malcolm Gets) and his dying, estranged aunt Grace (Stenborg), who barely speaks.While the 84-year-old Minneapolis native has never played a silent character before, her preparation for this part is basically the same as for any other. There is one major difference: She will not share certain elements of Grace's inner life with Gets or the director, Stephen Dimenna. "Sometimes they ask me, 'What are you thinking?' That's my secret. But it's interesting: If I change my thoughts, I'll get a different reaction from Malcolm." She adds she is able to offer variety in her silent responses, by registering his change of mood.At this point in her six-decade career,...

After 30 years, Kemp has come to say goodbye to his sick, elderly aunt. But don't order the flowers for the service just yet. Performed as part of Westport Country Playhouse's 2008 Season, Vigil is the much lauded, new play by award-winning Morris Panych, one of Canada's most celebrated playwrights. Starring Tony Award nominees Malcolm Gets (Television's "Caroline in the City") and theatre legend Helen Stenborg, Vigil tells the wickedly funny story of a selfish bank drudge who is tending to the dying aunt he hasn't seen in 30 years. She, however, isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Vigil is sure to appeal to those who love their comedy with a dark twist.