She became interested in acting while attending Foxcroft, and , Stephanie enrolled at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York from which she obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in acting in 1978.
She was hyperactive and had little spare time to spend with her peers, preferring to be surrounded by those who had similar energy to her.
It follows the lives of two Latina sisters who are working as cleaning ladies and are fighting for unionization; and the movie was nominated for 15 awards, winning five.