R.I.P. Helen Stenborg

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Tony-nominated actress Helen Stenborg dies at 86
By MARK KENNEDY
Last updated: March 23rd, 2011 09:03 AM (PDT)

Helen Stenborg, 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, has died. She was 86.

Publicist Chris Boneau says Stenborg died Tuesday evening at her
Manhattan apartment. The actress 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.

Her last Broadway performance was in 2002 in Arthur Miller's "The
Crucible" with Liam Neeson and Laura Linney. Other Broadway
appearances included the 1995 production of "A Month in the Country,"
starring Helen Mirren, and Hugh Leonard's "A Life" in 1980-81.