Candice Bergen

Candice Bergen was born on May 09, 1946 in USA. Candice Bergen's big-screen debut came with The Group directed by Sidney Lumet in 1966. Candice Bergen is known for Battle Creek directed by Andrew Bernstein, Josh Duhamel stars as Milt Chamberlain and Dean Winters as Russ Agnew. Candice Bergen has got 20 awards and 59 nominations so far. The most recent award Candice Bergen achieved is Online Film & Television Association. The upcoming new movie Candice Bergen plays is Book Club: The Next Chapter which will be released on May 12, 2023.

One cool, eternally classy lady, Candice Bergen was elegantly poised for trendy "ice princess" stardom when she first arrived on the '60s screen, but she gradually reshaped that débutante image in the '70s, both on- and off-camera. A staunch, outspoken feminist with a decisive edge, she went on to take a sizable portion of those contradicting qualities to film and, most particularly, to late 1980s TV.The daughter of famed ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and former actress and "Chesterfield Girl" model Frances Bergen (née Westerman), Candice Patricia Bergen was born in Beverly Hills, California, of Swedish, German, and English descent. At the age of six, she made her radio debut on her father's show. She attended Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles, the Cathedral School in Washington D.C. and then went abroad to the Montesano (finishing) School in Switzerland. Although she began taking art history and creative drawing at the University of Pennsylvania, she did not complete her studies.In between she also worked as a Ford model in order to buy cameras for her new passion--photography. Her Grace Kelly-like glacial beauty deemed her an ideal candidate for Ivy League patrician roles, and Candice made an auspicious film debut while still a college student portraying the Vassar-styled lesbian member of Sidney Lumet's Le groupe (1966) in an ensemble that included the debuts of other lovely up-and-comers including Kathleen Widdoes, Carrie Nye, Joan Hackett and Joanna Pettet.Film offers started coming her way, both here and abroad (spurred by her love for travel). Other than her top-notch roles as the co-ed who comes between Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel in Ce plaisir qu'on dit charnel (1971) and her prim American lady kidnapped by Moroccan sheik Sean Connery in Le Lion et le Vent (1975), her performances were deemed a bit too aloof to really stand out among the crowd. During this time, she found a passionate second career as a photographer and photojournalist. A number of her works went on to appear in an assortment of magazines including Life, Playboy and Esquire.Most of Candice's 1970s films were dismissible and unworthy of her talents, including the campus comedy Campus ou C.Q.F.D. (1970) opposite the hip counterculture star of the era -- Elliott Gould; the disturbingly violent Soldat bleu (1970); the epic-sized bomb Les derniers aventuriers (1970); T.R. Baskin (1971); La Chevauchée sauvage (1975); La théorie des dominos (1977), Lina Wertmüller's long-winded and notoriously long-titled Italian drama La fin du monde dans notre lit conjugal (1978); and the inferior sequel to the huge box-office soaper Love Story (1970), entitled Oliver's Story (1978) alongside original star Ryan O'Neal. Things picked up toward the second half of the decade, however, when the seemingly humorless Candice made a clever swipe at comedy. She made history as the first female guest host of Saturday Night Live (1975) and then showed an equally amusing side of her in the dramedy Merci d'avoir été ma femme... (1979) as Burt Reynolds' tone-deaf ex-wife, enjoying a "best supporting actress" Oscar nomination in the process. She and Jacqueline Bisset also worked well as a team in George Cukor's Riches et célèbres (1981), in which her mother Frances could be glimpsed in a Malibu party scene.Candice made her Broadway debut in 1985 replacing Sigourney Weaver in David Rabe's black comedy "Hurlyburly". In 1980 Candice married Louis Malle, the older (by 14 years) French director. They had one child, Chloe. In the late 1980s, Candice hit a new career plateau on comedy television as the spiky title role on Murphy Brown (1988), giving great gripe as the cynical and competitive anchor/reporter of a TV magazine show. With a superlative supporting cast around her, the CBS sitcom went the distance (ten seasons) and earned Candice a whopping five Emmys and two Golden Globe awards. TV-movie roles also came her way as a result with colorful roles ranging from the evil Arthurian temptress "Morgan Le Fey" to an elite, high-classed madam -- all many moons away from her initial white-gloved debs of the late 60s.Husband Malle's illness and subsequent death from cancer in 1995 resulted in Candice maintaining a low profile for an extended period. In time, however, she married a second time (since 2000) to Manhattan real estate developer Marshall Rose and returned to acting with a renewed vigor (or vinegar), with many of her characters enjoyable extensions of her sardonic "Murphy Brown" character. As for TV, she joined the 2005 cast of Boston Justice (2004) playing a brash, no-nonsense lawyer while trading barbs with a much less serious William Shatner, earning an Emmy nomination in the process. In 2018, Candice revisited her Murphy Brown character in a revised series form with many of the cast back on board. The show, however, was cancelled after only one season.Candice also ventured into the romantic comedy film genre with a spray of crisp supports -- sometimes as a confidante, sometimes as a villain. Such films include Miss Détective (2000), Fashion victime (2002), Espion mais pas trop! (2003), Sex and the City: Le film (2008), The Women (2008), Meilleures Ennemies (2009), A Merry Friggin' Christmas (2014), L'Exception à la règle (2016), The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017), Un coeur à prendre (2017) and Le Book Club (2018).