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Candice Bergen - Biography
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Candice Bergen Biography
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| Name : | Candice Bergen |
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Profession :
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Actress
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Birth Details :
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born May 9, 1946
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Birth name :
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Candice Patricia Bergen
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Height :
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5' 9" (1.75 m)
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Nickname :
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Candy
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Personal quotes :
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[talking about Burt Reynolds]: "I have always said Burt's sensitivity and generosity were in great measure responsible for my Academy Award nomina
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Spouse :
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Marshall Rose (15 June 2000 - present) Louis Malle (27 September 1980 - 23 November 1995) (his death) 1 child
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Candice Bergen Trivia
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- Daughter of Edgar Bergen
- Mother is Frances Westerman (Frances Bergen), a former model, brother is Kris Bergen a film and TV editor
- Born at 9:52pm-PST
- First female host of "Saturday Night Live" (1975).
- Her father's puppet, Charlie McCarthy, had a bigger bedroom and more clothes than she did as a child.
- Auditioned for the role of "Elaine Robinson" in The Graduate (1967).
- Daughter, Chloe Malle (b. 1985)
- She was kicked out of the University of Pennsylvania after failing 2 subjects. She said that she failed one of those classes, art, because she simply couldn't get to her 8 am class on time.
- 2000 - New husband Marshall Rose is a New York real estate magnate.
- Is a vegetarian.
- She came to Sidney Lumet's attention for The Group (1966) when the director spotted her in a Revlon advertisement hawking lipstick. He thought she was clutching a leopard, though it was really just a leopard print pillow.
- Measurements: 33-24-34 (as starlet), 34-25-35 (during "Murphy Brown") (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
- In the late 1960s, she was the companion of music producer Terry Melcher. At one point, they leased a house in Bel Air. In 1969, they moved into a house in Malibu, and the house they vacated was leased by Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate. It was in that house that Tate and four other people were murdered by members of the Manson Family. The fact that Melcher had agreed to produce a record for Charles Manson and backed out of the deal led to speculation that Melcher was the intended target of the killers.
- Is good friends with actress Christine Kaufmann.
- In 1995, after receiving her 5th Emmy Award for her role as Murphy on "Murphy Brown," she declined any future nominations for that role. She received a total of 7 consecutive nominations for the role.
- Is fluent in French
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Candice Bergen Detailed Biography
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Candice Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress best known for her starring role on the television situation comedy Murphy Brown.
She was born in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of Frances Westerman and radio ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (whose parents, Johan Henriksson Berggren and Nilla Svensdotter Osberg, were Swedish-born immigrants who Anglicized their surname). As a child Candice was often referred to as "Charlie McCarthy's Little Sister", which irritated her (Charlie McCarthy being one of her father's dummies).
Bergen has written articles, a play, and a memoir. She has also studied photography and worked as a photojournalist. Considered one of Hollywood's most beautiful women, Bergen worked as a fashion model but soon began acting. Despite initial rocky reviews, she appeared in such films as Carnal Knowledge and Starting Over, for which she received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for best supporting actress.
Bergen was the first female guest host on Saturday Night Live. On Murphy Brown she played a tough television reporter. Although the show was a successful comedy, it tackled important issues: Murphy Brown, a recovering alcoholic, became a single mother and later battled breast cancer. In 1992, then Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle criticized the Murphy Brown character for bearing a child while unmarried. While his remarks became comedic fodder, they paved the way for a subsequent episode to explore the subject of family values within a diverse set of families. Remaining true to the show's humor, Murphy arranges for a truckload of potatoes to be dumped in front of Quayle's residence (a reference to an incident in which Quayle spelled the word "potato" with an e, as "potatoe", an archaic spelling).
After Murphy Brown, Bergen hosted "Exhale with Candice Bergen" on the Oxygen network. She also appeared in character roles in films, most notably Miss Congeniality as the sweet-yet-demented pageant host Kathy Morningside, and portrayed the mayor of New York in Sweet Home Alabama. In 2003 she appeared in the movie View from the Top. In January 2005, Bergen joined the cast of Boston Legal as Shirley Schmidt, a founding partner in the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt. She has also done guest appearances on many TV shows, including Family Guy and Will and Grace.
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