
Candice Bergen
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Biography
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).
Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

House

Tony Awards

What's My Line?

Family Guy

Sex and the City

Saturday Night Live

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Golden Globe Awards

Law & Order

BoJack Horseman

And Just Like That…

The Muppet Show

The Emmy Awards

Will & Grace

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

The Conners

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

The Michael J. Fox Show

100 Years of Warner Bros.

Battle Creek

The Oscars

The Capote Tapes

2010

The Romantics

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Sex and the City

Bride Wars

Let Them All Talk

Sweet Home Alabama

Miss Congeniality

View from the Top

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Home Again

The Adventurers

As They Made Us

Boston Legal

Book Club: The Next Chapter

Book Club

Starting Over

Gandhi

Oliver's Story

Seinfeld

Murphy Brown

Murphy Brown

T.R. Baskin

Mayflower Madam
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