Candice Bergen

Actress

Female

Born May 9, 1946

Age 67

Hometown Beverly Hills, Ca...

Net Worth $52.5 Million

Height 5' 9" (175 cm)

Nationality American

Alma Mater University of Pen...

High School Harvard-Westlake ...

Candice Patricia Bergen 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… Read More

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Marshall Rose

Married 2000
Marshall Rose
Married 2000
Louis Malle
Married 1980 - 1995
Jack Nicholson
Dated 1971
Henry Kissinger
Dated 1970
Robert F. Kennedy
Dated 1965
Terry Melcher
Dated 1963 - 1969
Jimmy Boyd
Fling
Terence Stamp
Dated
David Debin
Dated
Jerry Brown
Dated
Warren Beatty
Dated

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Candice Bergen

Age 67

parents

Edgar Bergen
Father, d.1978
Frances Bergen
Mother, d.2006

siblings

Kris Bergen

Brother

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New York
Dec 11, 2012
#NYC celebrity sighting! This lady that looked kind of like Candice Bergen. That's right; almost TV's Murphy Brown!

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Angie Hicks: Angie Hicks: 5 Coping Skills Your Kids Will Thank You For
Huffington Post - 3 days ago

' If we want our daughters and sons to enjoy a more integrated approach to professional and personal fulfillment, we must continue the conversations that invigorated the Third Metric conference. I was honored to participate in the event''s panel on managing a frenetic life. It''s a topic I live every day as founder and chief marketing officer of fast-growing Angie''s List and the married mom of three kids under 10. For their sake, and on behalf of all who struggle with our culture'...
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Monica Potter's Close Call With Her 'Parenthood' Cancer Story
LATimes - 7 days ago

'Monica Potter, who plays Kristina Braverman on NBC''s sleeper hit "Parenthood" (just renewed for a fifth season), had an emotional story about breast cancer this past season that had multitudes of fans clinging to boxes of Kleenex. And while it''s not new territory for television (Kim Catrall on "Sex and the City" and Candice Bergen in "Murphy Brown" came before), it was nonetheless a journey of discovery for Kristina — and Potter herself. "I now know so mu...
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Huff Tv: Watch: A Look Back At The Third Metric Conference
Huffington Post - 13 days ago

' On June 6, 2013 in New York, hundreds of influential men and women in media, business, politics, and entertainment gathered at The Huffington Post''s first-ever women''s conference, "The Third Metric: Redefining Success Beyond Money and Power," to discuss a more humane and sustainable definition of what it means to be successful. The conference was hosted by Arianna Huffington, president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, and Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNB...
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Arianna Huffington: Beyond Money And Power (And Stress And Burnout): In Search Of A New Definition Of Success
The Huffington Post - May 29, 2013

' I''m happy to announce that next week, on June 6th, Mika Brzezinski and I will be co-hosting the Huffington Post''s first-ever women''s conference, "The Third Metric: Redefining Success Beyond Money & Power." As the title makes clear, the purpose is to discuss ways to come up with a new definition of what it means to be successful. Right now, the two metrics of success that drive the American workplace are money and power, but by themselves, they make a two-legged stool -- fine...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1946 Birth Born on May 9, 1946.

TEENAGE

1958 12 Years Old Bergen began appearing on her father's radio program at a young age, and in 1958, at age eleven, with her father on Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet Your Life as Candy Bergen. … Read More

TWENTIES

1966 20 Years Old Her second film in 1966 was The Sand Pebbles, in which she played Shirley Eckert, an assistant school teacher and missionary opposite Steve McQueen. … Read More

1970 24 Years Old After starring in the French film Live for Life (1967) and The Magus (1968) with Michael Caine and Anthony Quinn, she was featured in a 1970 political satire, The Adventurers, playing a frustrated socialite who has a lesbian affair. … Read More

1971 25 Years Old It led to Bergen being voted by British exhibitors as the seventh most popular star at the British box office in 1971. … Read More

1972 26 Years Old … In 1972, she served as a fundraiser and organizer for George McGovern's presidential campaign.

THIRTIES

1980 34 Years Old On September 27, 1980, she married French film director Louis Malle (Bergen herself has traveled extensively and speaks French fluently). They had one child, a daughter named Chloe, in 1985. The couple were married until Malle's death from cancer on Thanksgiving Day in 1995. … Read More

1982 36 Years Old In 1982, Bergen appeared in the Oscar-winning film Gandhi in which she portrayed documentary photographer Margaret Bourke-White. … Read More

1985 39 Years Old Turning to television, Bergen appeared in the 1985 miniseries Hollywood Wives.

FORTIES

1988 42 Years Old In 1988, she took the lead role in the sitcom Murphy Brown, in which she played a tough television reporter. … Read More

1989 43 Years Old … The show ran for ten seasons and between 1989 and 1998, Bergen was nominated for an Emmy Award seven times and won five. … Read More

1992 46 Years Old In 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle criticized prime-time TV for showing the Murphy Brown character "mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice."

FIFTIES

1998 52 Years Old After playing the role of the successful journalist, Bergen was offered a chance to work as a real-life one. After the run of Murphy Brown ended in 1998, CBS approached her to cover stories for 60 Minutes, an offer she declined, with the conviction that she didn't personally want to blur the lines between actor and journalist at the time. … Read More

2003 57 Years Old She also appeared in the comedies View from the Top with Gwyneth Paltrow and The In-Laws with Michael Douglas, both released in 2003.

2005 59 Years Old In January 2005, Bergen joined the cast of the television series Boston Legal as Shirley Schmidt, a founding partner in the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

2006 60 Years Old In 2006 and 2008, she received Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. … Read More

2009 63 Years Old More recently she appeared in the 2009 movie Bride Wars as Marion St. Claire, New York's most sought-after wedding planner, who also serves as the narrator of the story. … Read More

2010 64 Years Old In 2010, she appeared in a one-night only concert semi staged reading of Evening Primrose by Stephen Sondheim.

2011 65 Years Old Bergen has an occasional role on House as Lisa Cuddy's mother, starting in Season 7, including the 2011 episodes "Larger Than Life" and "Family Practice".

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