Candice Bergen
Gender: Female
Born: 9th May 1946 (currently 66 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Boston Legal, Murphy Brown, Hollywood Wives
Movies: Carnal Knowledge, Gandhi, Miss Congeniality, Soldier Blue, Stick, Sweet Home Alabama, The Magus, The Sand Pebbles, The Wind and the Lion, View from the Top, Starting Over, Bite the Bullet, Rich And Famous, Live for Life, The Adventurers, The Domino Principle, A Night Full of Rain, Getting Straight, The Group, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, 11 Harrowhouse, Bride Wars, Sex and the City: The Movie, Oliver's Story, Mayflower Madam, Footsteps, The Hunting Party, T.R. Baskin, The Women, The Romantics, The In-Laws, Mary & Tim, Arthur the King
Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress and former fashion model.
She is known for starring in two TV series, as the title character on the situation comedy Murphy Brown (1988–1998), for which she won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards; and as Shirley Schmidt on the comedy-drama Boston Legal (2004–2008), for which she was nominated for two Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Her first film was The Group (1965), which was based on Mary McCarthy's novel of the same name. She starred in several major films throughout the mid 1960s to early 1980s such as The Sand Pebbles, Carnal Knowledge, The Wind and the Lion, and Gandhi and received an Academy Award nomination for her role in Starting Over. Her later career includes character roles in Miss Congeniality and Sweet Home Alabama.
Bergen was born in Beverly Hills, California. Her mother, Frances Bergen (née Westerman), was a Powers model who was known professionally as Frances Westcott. Her father, Edgar Bergen, was a ventriloquist, comedian, and actor. Her paternal grandparents were Swedish-born immigrants who anglicized their surname, which was originally Berggren. As a child,
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