Candice Patricia Bergen 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. She is also known for her role as Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama Boston Legal. She made her screen debut in the 1966 film The Group.
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Candice Patricia Bergen 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. She is also known for her role as Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama Boston Legal. Bergen began her career as a fashion model and appeared on the cover of Vogue before she made her screen debut in the 1966 film The Group. She starred in The Sand Pebbles, Soldier Blue, Carnal Knowledge, and The Wind and the Lion. In films, Bergen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Starting Over and for the BAFTA Award for best Actress in a Supporting Role for Gandhi. She made her Broadway debut in 1984 play Hurlyburly and starred in the revivals of The Best Man and Love Letters. From 2002 to 2004, she appeared in three episodes of the HBO series Sex and the City. She was voted by British exhibitors as the seventh-most popular star at the British box office in 1971. Her paternal grandparents were Swedish-born immigrants who anglicized their surname, which was originally Berggren. She attended the Harvard-Westlake School and later attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she was elected both Homecoming Queen and Miss University. She failed to take her education seriously and after failing two courses in art and opera, she was asked to leave at the end of her sophomore year.
She said that when she grew up, she wanted to design clothes. She left college to focus on her career. In 1968, she played the leading female role in The Magus, a British mystery film for Fox starring Michael Caine and Anthony Quinn that was almost universally ridiculed on its release and was another major flop. She also starred in a 1970 political satire, The Adventurers, based on a novel by Harold Robbins, playing a frustrated socialite. She played the role of Shirley Eckert, an assistant school teacher, in The sand Pebbles with Steve McQueen. In 1971, she starred in Carnal knowledge, directed by Mike Nichols, a film that was a worldwide hit but a failure in its homeland, perhaps because of its unflattering portrayal of U.S. S. Cavalry. She appeared in The Day the Fish Came Out directed by Michael Cacoyannis, distributed by Fox. The movie was a box office flop, but Fox nevertheless signed her to a long-term contract. She later appeared in Valley of the Dolls, but did not appear in the film. She went to France to appear in Claude Lelouch’s romantic drama Live for Life opposite Yves Montand, popular in France but not the US. In the 1980s, she had a role in the romantic drama The MagUS, starring YvesMontand, and was voted the seventh most popular star in the UK.
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