Leslie Stefanson

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Formerly pursuing an accomplished career as a Los Angeles model and film actress, Leslie Stefanson always aspired to become an artist. Recently establishing her sculpture studio and opening her first show, Ms. Stefanson has made a successful career transition.

Born in Fargo, North Dakota, Leslie Stefanson grew up in Moorhead, Minnesota. She moved to New York City to study at Barnard College, the private women’s liberal arts institution affiliated with Columbia University, where she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in English Literature. After graduating, Leslie Stefanson went to work as a model, represented by the Wilhelmina Models agency, based in Manhattan. She landed her first small film roles in The Cowboy Way, The Mirror Has Two Faces, and Fool’s Paradise in the mid 1990s. Also in 1997, she appeared in an ad campaign for Lee Jeans. More prestigious projects followed: she had a part as a waitress in the award-winning comedy with Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt, As Good As It Gets. In 1999, Ms. Stefanson landed her most memorable role as the eponymous victim in the film The General’s Daughter, which starred John Travolta, Timothy Hutton, and James Cromwell. In 2001, she played Senator Ted Kennedy's wife in a TV movie about the Kennedy women, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot. The following year saw the release of The Stickup, in which the filmmakers cast Ms. Stefanson in a role opposite her future companion, actor James Spader.

During this period, Leslie Stefanson started to explore her interest in the visual arts. For four years she studied anatomy, principally drawing and sculpture, under master sculptor Robert Cunningham, whose teaching space later became the Teale Street Sculpture Studio. She began to cast in bronze, favoring nude female figures and reliefs. She continued her studies at The Art Students League in New York City and opened her studio in 2011. Her hometown of Moorhead hosted her first public showing in June, at the Rourke Art Gallery Museum, which exhibited Ms. Stefanson's 2004 piece I Myself Alone.

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