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).
A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best...
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Sweet Home Alabama
as Mayor Kate HenningsNew York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most...
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Miss Congeniality
as Kathy MorningsideWhen the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's...
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The In-Laws
as Judy TobiasRight before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws...
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While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and...
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In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes...
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Bride Wars
as Marion St. ClaireTwo best friends become rivals when their respective weddings are accidentally booked for the...
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The Sand Pebbles
as Shirley EckertEngineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of...
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Bite the Bullet
as Miss JonesAt the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles...
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A Merry Friggin' Christmas
as Donna MitchlerBoyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon...
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Book Club: The Next Chapter
as SharonFour best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls' trip they never had. When...
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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
as Julia MeyerowitzAn estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of...
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View from the Top
as Sally WestonNo one thought Donna would go very far. But when she sets her sights on becoming a first-class...
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The Women
as Catherine FrazierThe story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty...
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Book Club
as SharonFour lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty...
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Home Again
as Lillian StewartLife for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys...
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Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
as SelfA TV special celebrating the 25th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Before a celebrity...
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Soldier Blue
as Kathy Maribel Lee, 'Cresta'After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive...
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And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND...
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The Wind and the Lion
as Eden PedecarisAt the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and...
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The Romantics
as Augusta HayesAlliances are tested when seven college pals reunite to watch two of their own say “I do” at a...
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The Magus
as LilyA teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus...
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The Hunting Party
as Melissa RugerA ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped...
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Let Them All Talk
as RobertaA celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds....
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Rules Don't Apply
as Nadine HenlyIt's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under...
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Carnal Knowledge
as SusanTwo lifelong friends navigate complex sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling...
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Inequality for All
as Murphy Brown (archive footage)Based on Reich's 2010 book Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, the film examines...
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As They Made Us
as BarbaraAbigail, a divorced mother of two, is struggling to balance the dynamics within her...
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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as SelfBased on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood,...
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Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
as Anne BoleynClassic Saturday Night Live skits featuring the hilarious Phil Hartman.
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Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
as Self (archive footage)Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired...
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Murder: By Reason of Insanity
as Ewa BerwidA married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they...
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Oliver's Story
as Marcie BonwitOliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries...
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Arthur the King
as Morgan Le FayClassic tale of King Arthur and how his wife is kidnapped by his evil sister. Lancelot is sent...
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Stick
as KyleAfter getting out of jail, car thief Ernest "Stick" Stickley witnesses the murder of his friend...
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Elusive Justice
as NarratorNarrated by Candice Bergen, Elusive Justice is an unprecedented examination of the more than...
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11 Harrowhouse
as Maren ShirellA small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a...
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The Adventurers
as Sue Ann DaleyThe wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was...
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Starting Over
as Jessica PotterAfter divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a...
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Beautiful & Twisted
as BerniceFollowing the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife,...
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Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special
as SelfFormer members of Saturday Night Live come together to remember the past 40 years of Saturday...
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The Group
as LakeyIt's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private...
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Aretha Franklin: Duets
as SelfA chance to hear admirers including Elton John, Gloria Estefan, Smokey Robinson, PM Dawn, Bonnie...
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Belushi
as Self (archive footage)Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi’s death, director R.J....
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Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
as SelfA television special broadcast on PBS in honor of composer, songwriter, pianist, television...
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Getting Straight
as JanGraduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on...
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Live for Life
as CandiceFamous TV newscaster Robert Colomb is married to Catherine, but is continually unfaithful to...
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The Domino Principle
as EllieRoy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison...
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The Capote Tapes
as Self (voice) (archive footage)Newly discovered interviews with friends of Truman Capote made by Paris Review co-founder George...
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The Women of SNL
as Fern (archive footage)A look back at some of the funniest female characters and sketches in SNL's 39-year history.
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Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live
as SelfA retrospective of the first 5 years of Saturday Night Live.
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Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as SelfThe life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of...
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The Muppets Go Hollywood
as SelfKermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the...
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The World of Jim Henson
as Self (archive footage)In this episode of PBS' Great Performances, the history and legacy of puppeteer Jim Henson is...
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Mayflower Madam
as Sydney Biddle BarrowsInspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous...
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
as SelfHailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema,...
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A Night Full of Rain
as LizzyLizzy, a liberated American photographer, falls for narrow-minded journalist Paolo. Then finds...
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Rich and Famous
as Merry Noel BlakeTwo literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.
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The Day the Fish Came Out
as Electra BrownA plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent...
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Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self"Alan Pakula: Going for Truth" encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula,...
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SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
as uncreditedHoliday special including brand-new material with Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, the infamous...
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Mary & Tim
as Mary HortonAnother adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally...
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Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Even big stars need to stand in front of the director and audition for their roles, and some of...
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Footsteps
as Daisy LowendahlDaisy Lowendahl is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach...
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Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
as SelfCelebrities are interviewed about the social and working lives of Bugs, Daffy, Porky and the...
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The Earth Day Special
as Murphy BrownThe Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on...
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I am a Mennonite
as IntervieweeA filmmaker explores his Mennonite roots and identity.
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T.R. Baskin
as T. R. BaskinEnthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with...
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Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge
as SelfA camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall,...
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The Woody Allen Special
as SelfA Woody Allen special for CBS, in 1969.
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The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles'
as SelfThe Making of 'The Sand Pebbles' features video clips of surviving cast and crew, including...
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In Their Own Words: Jim Henson
as Self - ActorThe film follows Henson’s career from his first work with his Muppets in the early 1950’s during...
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Saturday Night Live Backstage
as uncreditedOriginally a special celebrating the 35th anniversary of the show was planned but it was...
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Saturday Night Live Backstage
as SelfOriginally a special celebrating the 35th anniversary of the show was planned but it was...
Movie pageUnderstanding the Universe
as NarratorJoin astronomers and astrophysicists as they probe light years beyond the Milky Way, in...
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Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's
as SelfIt's the most mythic of all American emporiums - and the scene of many an ultimate fashion...
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Law & Order
as Judge Amanda AnderleeIn cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...
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House
as Arlene CuddyDr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of...
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Family Guy
as Murphy Brown (voice)Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures...
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Family Guy
as Gloria Ironbox (voice)Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures...
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - GuestBravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality...
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Seinfeld
as Murphy BrownA stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in...
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as SelfThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight...
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Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The...
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Saturday Night Live
as uncreditedA late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The...
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Saturday Night Live
as Self - HostA late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The...
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Saturday Night Live
as SelfA late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The...
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Sex and the City
as Enid MeadBased on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best...
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Sex and the City
as Enid FrickBased on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best...
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The Kelly Clarkson Show
as uncreditedKelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well...
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BoJack Horseman
as The Closer (voice)Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the 90s - 20 years later. BoJack Horseman was the star of...
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Will & Grace
as Candice BergenWill Truman and Grace Adler are best friends living in New York, and when Grace's engagement...
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The View
as SelfABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin,...
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Boston Legal
as Shirley SchmidtAlan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston...
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The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - GuestThe Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various...
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The Mike Douglas Show
as SelfThe Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...
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What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery GuestFour panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while...
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Tony Awards
as Self - PresenterThe Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award,...
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as SelfThe Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show...
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The Conners
as BarbThis iconic family—Dan, Jackie, Darlene, Becky and D.J.—grapples with parenthood, dating, an...
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Murphy Brown
as Murphy BrownMurphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional...
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Golden Globe Awards
as Self - WinnerAn annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...
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Golden Globe Awards
as Self - NomineeAn annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...
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Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Audience MemberAn annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...
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And Just Like That…
as Enid FrickThis new chapter of “Sex and the City” follows Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate...
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The Muppet Show
as Self - Special Guest StarGo behind the curtains as Kermit the Frog and his muppet friends struggle to put on a weekly...
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American Masters
as SelfAmerican Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers,...
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The Oscars
as SelfAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
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Law & Order: Trial by Jury
as Amanda AnderleeThe inner workings of the judicial system, beginning with the arraignment, and continuing...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
as SelfTo commemorate the first century of American filmmaking, the American Film Institute embarked on...
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Dinah!
as SelfDinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started...
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The Michael J. Fox Show
as Beth HenryLook who’s making the news again! One of NY’s most beloved news anchors, Mike Henry (Michael J....
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100 Years of Warner Bros.
as SelfTracing a century of movie and TV history, these four documentary specials explore the...
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Battle Creek
as Constance (Russ' mom)In this mismatched buddy cop dramedy, an amazingly handsome, happy-go-lucky FBI agent is paired...
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Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
as Narrator (Voice)Actress Shelley Duvall presents charming animated versions of some of the most beloved...
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The Hollywood Palace
as SelfThe Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly...
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The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - GuestThe Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by...
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Murphy Brown
as Murphy BrownAmid a divided nation, chaotic national discourse and rampant attacks on the press, Murphy...
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The Emmy Awards
as SelfAn annual awards ceremony honoring the best in U.S. prime time television programming as chosen...
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Hollywood Wives
as Elaine ContiHollywood Wives tells the stories of several women in Hollywood, from powerful talent agents and...
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