Candice Bergen

Candice Bergen

Birthday: 1946-05-09

Place of Birth: Beverly Hills, California, USA

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).

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Miss Congeniality
Miss Congeniality

When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quick...

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Gandhi
Gandhi

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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Bride Wars
Bride Wars

Two best friends become rivals when their respective weddings are accidentally booked for the same d...

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Sex and the City
Sex and the City

A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girl...

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The In-Laws
The In-Laws

Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are ...

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The Sand Pebbles
The Sand Pebbles

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the...

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View from the Top
View from the Top

No one thought Donna would go very far. But when she sets her sights on becoming a first-class inter...

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Sweet Home Alabama
Sweet Home Alabama

New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most elig...

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The Domino Principle
The Domino Principle

Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence ...

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Stick
Stick

After getting out of jail, car thief Ernest "Stick" Stickley witnesses the murder of his friend Rain...

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Bite the Bullet
Bite the Bullet

At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to r...

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The Magus
The Magus

A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician...

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The Women
The Women

The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon...

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Soldier Blue
Soldier Blue

After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive privat...

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Carnal Knowledge
Carnal Knowledge

Two lifelong friends navigate complex sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with ...

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The Romantics
The Romantics

Alliances are tested when seven college pals reunite to watch two of their own say “I do” at a seasi...

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11 Harrowhouse
11 Harrowhouse

A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large f...

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Getting Straight
Getting Straight

Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, bu...

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The Wind and the Lion
The Wind and the Lion

At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the at...

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The Day the Fish Came Out
The Day the Fish Came Out

A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent pan...

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The Hunting Party
The Hunting Party

A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his ...

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Harvest Moon
Harvest Moon

Story about the early months of the pandemic, where a young boy named Charlie tries to get his estra...

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Starting Over
Starting Over

After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teache...

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The Group
The Group

It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl...

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Live for Life
Live for Life

Famous TV newscaster Robert Colomb is married to Catherine, but is continually unfaithful to her. Th...

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Aretha Franklin: Duets
Aretha Franklin: Duets

A chance to hear admirers including Elton John, Gloria Estefan, Smokey Robinson, PM Dawn, Bonnie Rai...

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Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

Even big stars need to stand in front of the director and audition for their roles, and some of the ...

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The Adventurers
The Adventurers

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was mur...

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Mayflower Madam
Mayflower Madam

Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Bi...

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Rich and Famous
Rich and Famous

Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich....

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A Night Full of Rain
A Night Full of Rain

Lizzy, a liberated American photographer, falls for narrow-minded journalist Paolo. Then finds she c...

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The Capote Tapes
The Capote Tapes

A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and the New York high society of...

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Arthur the King
Arthur the King

Classic tale of King Arthur and how his wife is kidnapped by his evil sister. Lancelot is sent out t...

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T.R. Baskin
T.R. Baskin

An enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with th...

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Oliver's Story
Oliver's Story

Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to l...

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Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's

It's the most mythic of all American emporiums - and the scene of many an ultimate fashion fantasy. ...

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Elusive Justice
Elusive Justice

Narrated by Candice Bergen, Elusive Justice is an unprecedented examination of the more than six-dec...

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Understanding the Universe
Understanding the Universe

Join astronomers and astrophysicists as they probe light years beyond the Milky Way, in Understandin...

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Footsteps
Footsteps

Daisy Lowendahl is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house wi...

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Book Club: The Next Chapter
Book Club: The Next Chapter

Four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls' trip they never had. When things ...

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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is th...

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Inequality for All
Inequality for All

Based on Reich's 2010 book Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, the film examines wide...

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A Merry Friggin' Christmas
A Merry Friggin' Christmas

Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizi...

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Rules Don't Apply
Rules Don't Apply

It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract...

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SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas

Holiday special including brand-new material with Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, the infamous troublema...

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Beautiful & Twisted
Beautiful & Twisted

Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Nar...

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Murder: By Reason of Insanity
Murder: By Reason of Insanity

A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had i...

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Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

The life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinem...

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Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman

Classic Saturday Night Live skits featuring the hilarious Phil Hartman....

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2010
2010

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American s...

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In Their Own Words: Jim Henson
In Their Own Words: Jim Henson

The film follows Henson’s career from his first work with his Muppets in the early 1950’s during tel...

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I am a Mennonite
I am a Mennonite

A filmmaker explores his Mennonite roots and identity....

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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their...

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The Earth Day Special
The Earth Day Special

The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April ...

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William Shatner in Concert
William Shatner in Concert

William Shatner performs a concert of biographical songs that take the audience into the reality of ...

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Home Again
Home Again

Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to mo...

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The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles'
The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles'

The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles' features video clips of surviving cast and crew, including Richard ...

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The Woody Allen Special
The Woody Allen Special

The Woody Allen Special is a television special that premiered on CBS on 21 September 1969. Allen ho...

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Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge
Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge

A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, bi...

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Book Club
Book Club

Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shade...

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Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary

Celebrities are interviewed about the social and working lives of Bugs, Daffy, Porky and the rest of...

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Mary & Tim
Mary & Tim

Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged yo...

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The Women of SNL
The Women of SNL

A look back at some of the funniest female characters and sketches in SNL's 39-year history....

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Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music

A television special broadcast on PBS in honor of composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer a...

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Let Them All Talk
Let Them All Talk

A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her ...

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Louis Malle, le rebelle
Louis Malle, le rebelle

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The World of Jim Henson
The World of Jim Henson

In this episode of PBS' Great Performances, the history and legacy of puppeteer Jim Henson is explor...

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Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

"Alan Pakula: Going for Truth" encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula, a l...

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Belushi
Belushi

Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi’s death, director R.J. Cutle...

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Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

A TV special celebrating the 25th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Before a celebrity audience, m...

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The Muppets Go Hollywood
The Muppets Go Hollywood

Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere o...

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Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live
Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live

A retrospective of the first 5 years of Saturday Night Live....

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The Lion Roars Again
The Lion Roars Again

A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in ...

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Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi

The making of the film Gandhi (1982)....

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As They Made Us
As They Made Us

Abigail, a divorced mother of two, is struggling to balance the dynamics within her dysfunctional fa...

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Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired on ...

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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Who Is Henry Jaglom?

Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismi...

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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories

A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema....

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Show of Titles
Show of Titles

An evening of celebrated stars performing the titles songs from Broadway’s best....

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The Passions of Louis Malle
The Passions of Louis Malle

A documentary portrait of the legendary French film director Louis Malle featuring many of his colla...

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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and grip...

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Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration is a special produced forSesame Street’s 25th anniversary. ...

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