
Candice Bergen
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).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 18.946 |
Birthday | 1946-05-09 |
Place of Birth | Beverly Hills, California, USA |
Also Known As | Candice Patricia Bergen, Candy Bergen, Olga Mallsnerd, 甘蒂絲·柏根, کندیس برگن, |

2000

Miss Congeniality
6.5/3947
When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at t...
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Miss Congeniality

1982

Gandhi
7.6/2313
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...
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Gandhi

2009

Bride Wars
6.2/3036
Two best friends become rivals when their respective weddings are accidentally booked for the same day.
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Bride Wars

2008

Sex and the City
6.6/2133
A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadver...
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Sex and the City

2003

The In-Laws
5.6/284
Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smugglers.
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The In-Laws

1966

The Sand Pebbles
7.2/251
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution...
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The Sand Pebbles

2003

View from the Top
5.5/553
No one thought Donna would go very far. But when she sets her sights on becoming a first-class international flight attendant, Donna throws caution to...
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View from the Top

2002

Sweet Home Alabama
6.4/1544
New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—inc...
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1977

The Domino Principle
5.9/66
Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he wil...
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The Domino Principle

1985

Stick
5.3/46
After getting out of jail, car thief Ernest "Stick" Stickley witnesses the murder of his friend Rainy during a drug deal. To avoid getting killed by t...
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1975

Bite the Bullet
6.4/112
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, amo...
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Bite the Bullet

1968

The Magus
5.414/29
A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman.
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2008

The Women
5.099/339
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-we...
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1970

Soldier Blue
6.8/198
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman w...
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1971

Carnal Knowledge
6.6/185
Two lifelong friends navigate complex sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with societal norms and personal desires.
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Carnal Knowledge

2010

The Romantics
4.9/239
Alliances are tested when seven college pals reunite to watch two of their own say “I do” at a seaside wedding. But the maid of honor and the groom sh...
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1974

11 Harrowhouse
5.68/25
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen...
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1970

Getting Straight
6.2/30
Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he...
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Getting Straight

1975

The Wind and the Lion
6.5/183
At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure...
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The Wind and the Lion

1967

The Day the Fish Came Out
4.9/12
A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who a...
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1971

The Hunting Party
6.2/62
A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.
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Harvest Moon
0/0
Story about the early months of the pandemic, where a young boy named Charlie tries to get his estranged parents together again.
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Harvest Moon

1979

Starting Over
6.4/58
After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.
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1966

The Group
5.6/27
It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own l...
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1967

Live for Life
6.3/17
Famous TV newscaster Robert Colomb is married to Catherine, but is continually unfaithful to her. Then he meets, and becomes fascinated with Candice.
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Live for Life

1993

Aretha Franklin: Duets
8/2
A chance to hear admirers including Elton John, Gloria Estefan, Smokey Robinson, PM Dawn, Bonnie Raitt and Rod Stewart sharing a stage with the Queen...
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Aretha Franklin: Duets

1999

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
0/0
Even big stars need to stand in front of the director and audition for their roles, and some of the best screen tests are from the early years of lege...
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Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1

1970

The Adventurers
4.5/10
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the co...
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The Adventurers

1987

Mayflower Madam
3.8/4
Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Biddle Barrows, a driven young socialite, opens an e...
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Mayflower Madam

1981

Rich and Famous
5.514/35
Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.
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Rich and Famous

1978

A Night Full of Rain
5.5/12
Lizzy, a liberated American photographer, falls for narrow-minded journalist Paolo. Then finds she can't live with him or without him.
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A Night Full of Rain

2021

The Capote Tapes
6.4/5
Newly discovered interviews with friends of Truman Capote made by Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton invigorate this fascinating documentary on t...
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The Capote Tapes

1985

Arthur the King
3.6/9
Classic tale of King Arthur and how his wife is kidnapped by his evil sister. Lancelot is sent out to try and retrieve the lost queen and unfortunatel...
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Arthur the King

1971

T.R. Baskin
5.1/15
Enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to searc...
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T.R. Baskin

1978

Oliver's Story
4.8/26
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hour...
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Oliver's Story

2013

Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's
6.1/14
It's the most mythic of all American emporiums - and the scene of many an ultimate fashion fantasy. Now audiences get a rarified chance to peek behind...
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Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's

2011

Elusive Justice
9/1
Narrated by Candice Bergen, Elusive Justice is an unprecedented examination of the more than six-decade global hunt for the 20th century's most notori...
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Elusive Justice

1993

Understanding the Universe
0/0
Join astronomers and astrophysicists as they probe light years beyond the Milky Way, in Understanding The Universe, part of TLC's popular television s...
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Understanding the Universe

2003

Footsteps
5.6/7
Daisy Lowendahl is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan who knows almost everything a...
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Footsteps

2023

Book Club: The Next Chapter
6.3/180
Four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls' trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their r...
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1995

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
8.5/6
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and write...
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2013

Inequality for All
7.5/112
Based on Reich's 2010 book Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, the film examines widening income inequality in the United States. U.S....
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2014

A Merry Friggin' Christmas
5.4/243
Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hi...
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2016

Rules Don't Apply
5.7/472
It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Ang...
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2009

SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
7.4/7
Holiday special including brand-new material with Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, the infamous troublemaker "Gilly," and others. The special also features...
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2015

Beautiful & Twisted
5.3/62
Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.
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1985

Murder: By Reason of Insanity
3.5/2
A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wif...
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2014

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
4.8/4
The life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinema: Lord Richard Attenborough.
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Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

1998

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
7.7/15
Classic Saturday Night Live skits featuring the hilarious Phil Hartman.
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Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman

1984

2010
6.644/946
While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvou...
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2010

2015

In Their Own Words: Jim Henson
7/2
The film follows Henson’s career from his first work with his Muppets in the early 1950’s during television’s Golden Age up to his sudden and shocking...
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2021

I am a Mennonite
0/0
A filmmaker explores his Mennonite roots and identity.
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2017

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
6.466/1190
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
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1990

The Earth Day Special
8/6
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2006

William Shatner in Concert
0/0
William Shatner performs a concert of biographical songs that take the audience into the reality of his life and career: from STAR TREK to BOSTON LEGA...
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William Shatner in Concert

2017

Home Again
6.1/1199
Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.
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2007

The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles'
0/0
The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles' features video clips of surviving cast and crew, including Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen, and Neile Adams, the...
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The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles'

1969

The Woody Allen Special
3/3
A Woody Allen special for CBS, in 1969.
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The Woody Allen Special

1989

Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge
6.2/5
A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of tw...
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Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge

2018

Book Club
6.2/784
Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club to get inspir...
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1986

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
6.7/15
Celebrities are interviewed about the social and working lives of Bugs, Daffy, Porky and the rest of the Looney Tunes.
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Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary

1996

Mary & Tim
5.5/2
Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him...
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Mary & Tim

2010

The Women of SNL
7.3/3
A look back at some of the funniest female characters and sketches in SNL's 39-year history.
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The Women of SNL

1990

Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
10/1
A television special broadcast on PBS in honor of composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist Joe Raposo after he passed away.
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Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music

2020

Let Them All Talk
5.6/254
A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds...
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Let Them All Talk

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...
6.971/52
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...
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And the Oscar Goes To...

2015

Louis Malle, le rebelle
7/2
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1994

The World of Jim Henson
7.3/6
In this episode of PBS' Great Performances, the history and legacy of puppeteer Jim Henson is explored, from his six-second commercial beginnings to a...
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The World of Jim Henson

2019

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
6.5/4
"Alan Pakula: Going for Truth" encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula, a lauded filmmaker and extremely private man, who was...
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Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

2020

Belushi
6.843/51
Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi’s death, director R.J. Cutler’s documentary feature examines the too-short lif...
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Belushi

1999

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
6.8/16
A TV special celebrating the 25th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Before a celebrity audience, many of the former cast members and guest hosts ret...
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Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

1979

The Muppets Go Hollywood
6.3/19
Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film, The Muppet Movi...
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The Muppets Go Hollywood

2005

Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live
7.2/4
A retrospective of the first 5 years of Saturday Night Live.
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Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live

1975

The Lion Roars Again
0/0
A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975.
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The Lion Roars Again

1983

Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
0/0
The making of the film Gandhi (1982).
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Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi

2022

As They Made Us
5.4/40
Abigail, a divorced mother of two, is struggling to balance the dynamics within her dysfunctional family as she attempts to cultivate new love.
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1994

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
7/3
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired on ABC to celebrate Sesame Street's 25th anniversary....
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1997

Who Is Henry Jaglom?
6.6/5
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "wor...
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?

2002

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
7/1
A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories

2021

Show of Titles
0/0
An evening of celebrated stars performing the titles songs from Broadway’s best.
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