MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Executive co-producer
Birth name Candice Patricia Bergen
American nationality
Birth May 9, 1946 (Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California – United States)
BIOGRAPHY
Daughter of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, Candice Bergen studied history and literature at the University of Pennsylvania and actively participated in theatrical performances given there. In 1963, she was crowned best actress on campus.
The following year, she became a model in New York, and at the request of Sidney Lumet , she appeared as the lead in his film The Group (1966). Her dream physique does not go unnoticed, she immediately plays a young teacher in The Canonry of the Yangtze by Robert Wise , a role which allows her to play opposite Steve McQueen . Internationally renowned, the American actress who gives the image of a cold and self-confident woman starred under the direction of Claude Lelouch in Vivre pour vivre in 1967, then played the enigmatic Lily in Jeux Perverse (1968) by Guy Green .
Taking up the cause of the American Indians, in 1970 she played Kathy Maribel Lee in The Blue Soldier , a western by Ralph Nelson about the massacre of Indians by the bluecoats in 1864 at Sand Creek. Twice, she partnered Gene Hackman in The Wild Ride (1975) and The Domino Theory (1977). In 1980, she was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting role for her performance as Jessica Potter, Burt Reynolds ‘ former companion, in Thank You for Being My Wife . A freelance
photographer-reporter in her spare time, Candice Bergen married director Louis Malle in 1980 . In the 80s and 90s, apart from her role as Margaret Bourke-White, American journalist, in Gandhi (1982), she devoted herself mainly to television. Notably the sitcom Murphy Brown , in which she played the heroine and co-presenter of a news magazine for 20 years. In 2000, she made her return to the big screen alongside Sandra Bullock in the police comedy Miss Detective . She continues her career in the cinema in the comedy register, as evidenced by her performances in Fashion Victim , Hostess at all costs , Spy but not too much! , Best Enemies , A Heart to Take and The Book Club . At the same time, Candice Bergen appears in series known as
Sex & the City and Dr. House . From 2005 to 2008, the Beverly Hills native slipped into the shoes of one of the main characters of Boston Justice , that of Shirley Schmidt of the law firm Crane, Poole & Schmidt.
In 2021, Candice Bergen plays an embittered woman alongside Meryl Streep and Dianne Wiest in Steven Soderbergh ‘s The Great Crossing . A film shot in two weeks aboard a liner, in which the three actresses improvise 70%.
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