Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress and former fashion model. She won five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for her portrayal of the title character on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown (1988–1998, 2018-2019). She is also known for her role as Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama Boston Legal (2005–2008). In films, Bergen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Starting Over (1979), and for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Gandhi (1982).
Bergen began her career as a fashion model and appeared on the cover of Vogue before she made her screen debut in the film The Group (1966). She starred in The Sand Pebbles (1966), Soldier Blue (1970), Carnal Knowledge (1971), and The Wind and the Lion (1975). She made her Broadway debut in the 1984 play Hurlyburly and starred in the revivals of The Best Man (2012) and Love Letters (2014). From 2002 to 2004, she appeared in three episodes of the HBO series Sex and the City. Her other film roles include Miss Congeniality (2000), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), The Women (2008), Bride Wars (2009), Book Club (2018) and Let Them All Talk (2020).
Candice Bergen Biography / Wiki
| Name | Candice Bergen |
| Also Know | Candice Patricia Bergen, Candy Bergen, Olga Mallsnerd |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1946-05-09 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 76 |
| Deathday |
Candice Bergen Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Soldier Blue | Kathy Maribel Lee, ‘Cresta’ | 1970-08-12 | After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman w… |
| Murder: By Reason of Insanity | Ewa Berwid | 1985-10-01 | A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don’t turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband’s business fails, while his wif… |
| The Group | Lakey | 1966-03-04 | It’s 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl’s school, about to graduate and start their own l… |
| Mayflower Madam | Sydney Biddle Barrows | 1987-11-15 | Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Biddle Barrows, a driven young socialite, opens an e… |
| T.R. Baskin | T. R. Baskin | 1971-10-20 | Enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to searc… |
| Elusive Justice | Narrator | 2011-11-26 | Narrated by Candice Bergen, Elusive Justice is an unprecedented examination of the more than six-decade global hunt for the 20th century’s most notori… |
| Understanding the Universe | Narrator | 1993-08-03 | Join astronomers and astrophysicists as they probe light years beyond the Milky Way, in Understanding The Universe, part of TLC’s popular television s… |
| Footsteps | Daisy Lowendahl | 2003-10-11 | Daisy Lowendahl is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan who knows almost everything a… |
| Mary & Tim | Mary Horton | 1996-11-03 | Another adaptation of the novel “Tim”, about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him … |
| Louis Malle, le rebelle | Self (archiveFootage) | 2015-03-30 | … |
| Gandhi | Margaret Bourke-White | 1982-11-30 | In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian … |
| The Domino Principle | Ellie | 1977-03-23 | Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he wil… |
| Stick | Kyle | 1985-04-26 | After getting out of jail, car thief Ernest “Stick” Stickley witnesses the murder of his friend Rainy during a drug deal. To avoid getting killed by t… |
| Bite the Bullet | Miss Jones | 1975-09-26 | At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, amo… |
| Carnal Knowledge | Susan | 1971-06-30 | The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their… |
| 11 Harrowhouse | Maren Shirell | 1974-09-26 | A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen… |
| Getting Straight | Jan | 1970-05-13 | Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he’s back studying for his master’s, he… |
| The Wind and the Lion | Eden Pedecaris | 1975-05-22 | At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure … |
| The Day the Fish Came Out | Electra Brown | 1967-09-27 | A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who a… |
| The Hunting Party | Melissa Ruger | 1971-07-16 | A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife…. |
| Starting Over | Jessica Potter | 1979-10-05 | After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher…. |
| Rich and Famous | Merry Noel Blake | 1981-09-23 | Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich…. |
| A Night Full of Rain | Lizzy | 1978-01-17 | Lizzy, a liberated American photographer, falls for narrow-minded journalist Paolo. Then finds she can’t live with him or without him…. |
| Arthur the King | Morgan Le Fay | 1985-04-26 | Classic tale of King Arthur and how his wife is kidnapped by his evil sister. Lancelot is sent out to try and retrieve the lost queen and unfortunatel… |
| Oliver’s Story | Marcie Bonwit | 1978-12-15 | Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hour… |
| Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film | Herself | 2014-08-25 | The life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinema: Lord Richard Attenborough…. |
| The Earth Day Special | Murphy Brown | 1990-04-22 | The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990. Sponsored by Time Warner, the two hour s… |
| Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary | Self | 1986-01-14 | Celebrities are interviewed about the social and working lives of Bugs, Daffy, Porky and the rest of the Looney Tunes…. |
| Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music | Self | 1990-05-16 | A television special broadcast on PBS in honor of composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist Joe Raposo after he passed away…. |
| Who Is Henry Jaglom? | Self | 1997-07-08 | Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the “wor… |
| The Magus | Lily | 1968-12-10 | A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island’s magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman…. |
| Live for Life | Candice | 1967-09-13 | Famous TV newscaster Robert Colomb is married to Catherine, but is continually unfaithful to her. Then he meets, and becomes fascinated with Candice…. |
| The Adventurers | Sue Ann Daley | 1970-03-25 | The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the co… |
| The Woody Allen Special | Herself | 1969-09-21 | A Woody Allen special for CBS, in 1969…. |
| Beautiful & Twisted | Bernice | 2015-06-08 | Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy…. |
| Book Club | Sharon | 2018-05-18 | Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club to get inspir… |
| Saturday Night Live Backstage | Self | 2011-02-20 | Originally a special celebrating the 35th anniversary of the show was planned but it was scrapped and replaced with this special, which shows viewers … |
| The Making of Gandhi: Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi | 1983-02-01 | The making of the film Gandhi (1982)…. | |
| As They Made Us | Barbara | 2022-04-08 | Recently divorced Abigail arrives right in the midst of her parents’ chaotic antics. After a lifetime of dysfunctional hilarity, the family – accomp… |
| Book Club 2 – The Next Chapter | Sharon | 2023-05-12 | Our four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, thei… |
| Miss Congeniality | Kathy Morningside | 2000-12-22 | When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as ‘The Citizen’, it’s quickly determined that he’s planning his next act at t… |
| The In-Laws | Judy Tobias | 2003-05-23 | Right before his daughter’s wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smugglers…. |
| The Sand Pebbles | Shirley Eckert | 1966-12-20 | Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution… |
| View from the Top | Sally Weston | 2003-03-21 | A small-town woman tries to achieve her goal of becoming a flight attendant…. |
| Sweet Home Alabama | Mayor Kate Hennings | 2002-09-26 | New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city’s most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—i… |
| Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s | Herself | 2013-05-03 | It’s the most mythic of all American emporiums – and the scene of many an ultimate fashion fantasy. Now audiences get a rarified chance to peek behind… |
| The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies | Self | 1995-06-05 | Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and write… |
| Home Again | Lillian Stewart | 2017-09-07 | Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her…. |
| Alan Pakula: Going for Truth | Self | 2019-10-12 | “Alan Pakula: Going for Truth” encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula, a lauded filmmaker and extremely private man, who was… |
| William Shatner in Concert | 2006-03-22 | William Shatner performs a concert of biographical songs that take the audience into the reality of his life and career: from STAR TREK to BOSTON LEGA… | |
| A Merry Friggin’ Christmas | Donna Mitchler | 2014-11-07 | Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son’s gifts at home, he hi… |
| Let Them All Talk | Roberta | 2020-12-10 | A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds… |
| The Lion Roars Again | Herself | 1975-01-01 | A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975…. |
| Bride Wars | Marion St. Claire | 2009-01-09 | Two best friends become rivals when their respective weddings are accidentally booked for the same day…. |
| Sex and the City | Enid Frick | 2008-05-12 | A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadver… |
| Inequality for All | Murphy Brown (archive footage) | 2013-01-19 | U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich tries to raise awareness of the country’s widening economic gap…. |
| The Women | Catherine Frazier | 2008-09-12 | The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-we… |
| In Their Own Words: Jim Henson | 2015-09-15 | The film follows Henson’s career from his first work with his Muppets in the early 1950’s during television’s Golden Age up to his sudden and sh… | |
| The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) | Julia Meyerowitz | 2017-10-13 | An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father…. |
| Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge | Herself | 1989-06-26 | A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of tw… |
| Rules Don’t Apply | Nadine Henly | 2016-11-23 | It’s Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Ang… |
| The Romantics | Augusta Hayes | 2010-09-10 | Seven close friends reunite for the wedding of two of their friends. Problems arise because the bride and the maid of honor have had a long rivalry ov… |
| Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special | Self | 1999-09-25 | A TV special celebrating the 25th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Before a celebrity audience, many of the former cast members and guest hosts ret… |
| Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live | Self | 2005-02-20 | A retrospective of the first 5 years of Saturday Night Live…. |
| The World of Jim Henson | Self (archive footage) | 1994-11-23 | Episode of Great Performances about Jim Henson… |
| Belushi | Self (archive footage) | 2020-10-14 | Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi’s death, director R.J. Cutler’s documentary feature examines the too-short… |
| 2010 | SAL 9000 | 1984-12-06 | While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvou… |
| The Women of SNL | Fern (archive footage) | 2010-11-01 | A look back at some of the funniest female characters and sketches in SNL’s 39-year history…. |
| The Muppets Go Hollywood | Herself | 1979-05-16 | In this one-hour special, Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets’ first fea… |
| Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! | Self (archive footage) | 1994-05-18 | Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired on ABC to celebrate Sesame Street’s 25th anniversary…. |
| The Capote Tapes | Self (voice) (archive footage) | 2021-09-10 | Newly discovered interviews with friends of Truman Capote made by Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton invigorate this fascinating documentary on t… |
| Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman | Anne Boleyn | 1998-01-01 | Classic Saturday Night Live skits featuring the hilarious Phil Hartman…. |
| And the Oscar Goes To… | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 | The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry’s most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO… traces the history of the Academy … |
Candice Bergen Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Producer | Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty… | ||
| Executive Producer | Amid a divided nation, chaotic national discourse and rampant attacks on the press, Murphy decides to return to the airwaves and recruits her FYI team… | ||
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