 Stenborg appeared on stage in revivals of "A Doll's House", "A Month in the Country", and "The Crucible"; the original, belated US production of Noël Coward's "Waiting in the Wings", for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play; and the Lanford Wilson plays, "The Rimers of Eldritch" and "Talley & Son" winning the Obie Award for her performance in the latter.She portrayed Helga Lindeman on the soap opera "Another World" from 1977 to 1978.Stenborg also appeared in the 1999 film, My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York, which won an Academy Award for Best Short Subject in 2000.