Elisabeth Campbell in the film The General's Daughter, and Joan Bennett Kennedy in the television miniseries Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot.
[2] Stefanson was born in Fargo, North Dakota in 1971, and raised in Moorhead, Minnesota.
[3] 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.
[3] In August 2008, Stefanson gave birth to her first child, a son, with actor James Spader.