1. Candice Patricia Bergen was born on May 9,1946 and is an American actress.
51 Facts About Candice Bergen
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Candice Bergen won 5 Primetime Emmy Awards and 2 Golden Globe Awards as the title character on Murphy Brown.
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Candice Bergen is known for her role as Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama Boston Legal.
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Candice 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.
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Candice Bergen starred in The Sand Pebbles, Soldier Blue, Carnal Knowledge, and The Wind and the Lion.
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Candice Bergen made her Broadway debut in the 1984 play Hurlyburly and starred in the revivals of The Best Man and Love Letters.
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Candice Patricia Bergen was born May 9,1946, at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital in Los Angeles, California.
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Candice Bergen's mother, Frances Bergen, was a Powers model known professionally as Frances Westcott.
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Candice Bergen's father, Edgar Bergen, was a ventriloquist, comedian, and actor.
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Candice Bergen was raised in Beverly Hills, California, and attended the Westlake School for Girls.
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Candice Bergen began appearing on her father's radio program at a young age and in 1958, at age 11, was a guest with her father on Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet Your Life, as Candy Bergen.
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Candice Bergen said she wanted to be a clothing designer when she grew up.
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Candice Bergen later attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she was elected Homecoming Queen and Miss University but, as Bergen later acknowledged, she did not take her education seriously.
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Candice Bergen ultimately received an honorary doctorate from Penn in May 1992.
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Candice Bergen received acting training at HB Studio in New York City.
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Candice Bergen made her screen debut playing a university student in the ensemble film The Group, directed by Sidney Lumet, who knew Candice Bergen's family.
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Candice Bergen played the role of Shirley Eckert, an assistant school teacher, in The Sand Pebbles with Steve McQueen.
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Candice Bergen guest-starred on an episode of Coronet Blue, whose director Sam Wanamaker recommended her for the comedy The Day the Fish Came Out directed by Michael Cacoyannis, distributed by Fox.
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Candice Bergen was announced for the role of Anne in Valley of the Dolls, but did not appear in the film.
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Candice Bergen went to France to appear in Claude Lelouch's romantic drama Live for Life opposite Yves Montand, popular in France but not the US.
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Candice Bergen played a frustrated socialite in a 1970 political satire, The Adventurers, based on a novel by Harold Robbins.
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Candice Bergen played Elliott Gould's girlfriend in Getting Straight, a counterculture movie which drew another spate of bad reviews but was commercially profitable.
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Candice Bergen starred in the controversial Western Soldier Blue, an overseas success but a failure in America.
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The film's European success led to Candice Bergen's being voted by British exhibitors as the seventh-most popular star at the British box office in 1971.
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Candice Bergen appeared with Oliver Reed and Gene Hackman in The Hunting Party, a violent Western which drew terrible reviews and flopped.
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Candice Bergen received some strong reviews for her supporting role in Carnal Knowledge, directed by Mike Nichols.
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Candice Bergen returned with a supporting part in a British heist film, 11 Harrowhouse, then did a Western with Gene Hackman and James Coburn, Bite the Bullet.
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Candice Bergen was reunited with Hackman in The Domino Principle for Stanley Kramer, another failure.
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Candice Bergen appeared in A Night Full of Rain for Lina Wertmuller and was the love interest of Ryan O'Neal's character in the Love Story sequel, Oliver's Story, but both films failed critically and financially.
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Candice Bergen appeared in the Burt Reynolds romantic comedy Starting Over, for which she received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for best supporting actress.
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Candice Bergen portrayed a best-selling author in Rich and Famous with Jacqueline Bisset.
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In 1982, Candice Bergen appeared in the Oscar-winning film Gandhi in which she portrayed documentary photographer Margaret Bourke-White.
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Candice Bergen was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
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Candice Bergen was the first woman to host the show, and the first host to do a second show.
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Candice Bergen was the first woman to join the Five-Timers Club when she hosted for the fifth time in 1990.
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In recent years, Candice Bergen has made various cameos on SNL, often to help welcome new members into the Five-Timers Club, such as Jonah Hill in 2018, John Mulaney in 2022, and Emma Stone in 2023.
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Candice Bergen guest-starred on The Muppet Show in its first season, while her father Edgar would guest-star the following season.
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On television, Candice Bergen appeared as Morgan Le Fay in Arthur the King and in the miniseries Hollywood Wives.
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Candice Bergen declined, saying she did not want to blur the lines between actor and journalist.
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From 1991 to 1998, Candice Bergen appeared as the main spokesperson for the Sprint long-distance phone company.
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Candice Bergen has featured in a long-running "Dime Lady" ad campaign for the Sprint phone company.
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Candice Bergen could be seen in The Women and Bride Wars as Marion St Claire, New York's most sought-after wedding planner, who serves as the narrator of the story.
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From its launch in 2008, Candice Bergen was a contributor for wowOwow.
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Candice Bergen was in The Romantics and had an occasional role on House as Lisa Cuddy's mother, starting in Season 7, including the episodes "Larger Than Life" and "Family Practice".
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Candice Bergen appeared on Broadway in the 2012 revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man and the 2014 revival of Love Letters.
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On January 24,2018, it was announced that Candice Bergen would be reprising her role as Murphy Brown.
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Candice Bergen has written numerous articles and a play, as well as two memoirs, Knock Wood in 1984, and A Fine Romance in 2015.
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In 2000, Candice Bergen became the host of her own talk show called Exhale on Oxygen.
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In 2016, Candice Bergen began painting, with paint pens, on handbags, with the business overseen by her daughter, Chloe Malle, and with the proceeds benefiting charity.
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Candice Bergen is a political activist who once accepted a date with Henry Kissinger.
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Candice Bergen was married to New York real estate magnate and philanthropist Marshall Rose from 2000 to his death on February 15,2025 from Parkinson's disease.