Leslie Ann Stefanson (born May 10, 1971) is an American model, actress and artist. She is most known for playing the title role as Capt. Elisabeth Campbell in the film '' The General's Daughter'', and

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in the television miniseries '' Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot''.

Biography

Stefanson was born in

Fargo, North Dakota Fargo ( /ˈfɑɹɡoʊ/) is a city in and the county seat of Cass County, North Dakota, United States. According to the 2020 census, its population was 125,990, making it the most populous city in the state and the 219th-most populous city in ...

in 1971, and raised in

Moorhead, Minnesota Moorhead () is a city in and county seat of Clay County, Minnesota, United States, on the banks of the Red River of the North. Located in the Red River Valley, an extremely fertile and active agricultural region, Moorhead is also home to several ...

. She is of Icelandic heritage, with her paternal grandparents, Skúli Stefánsson and Heffie Einarson, emigrating from

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

. She studied literature in New Jersey at

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and in New York at

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

. In 1993, she graduated with a degree in

English literature English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines E ...

from

. She was a member of a New York theater group, modeled, and appeared in an ad for Lee's Jeans in 1997, which was shown during the

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. On August 31, 2008, Stefanson gave birth to her first child, a son, with actor

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. As of 2019, she makes

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and

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sculptures in Los Angeles and New York City.

Filmography

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stefanson, Leslie 1971 births 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses 20th-century American sculptors 21st-century American sculptors 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American women artists Actresses from North Dakota American film actresses American women sculptors Barnard College alumni Living people People from Fargo, North Dakota People from Moorhead, Minnesota American people of Icelandic descent