May 9: Happy Birthday Candice Bergen

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Five-time Emmy winner Candice Bergen is celebrating her 71st birthday. She dropped out of the University of Pennsylvania and made her film debut in 1966, starring in The Group, a moderate success, and in The Sand Pebbles, one of the year’s biggest hits. Over the next decade and a half she starred in films like Soldier Blue, Carnal Knowledge, The Wind and the Lion, Starting Over (receiving an Oscar nomination) and Gandhi.

As the eighties progressed, Bergen got fewer film roles, but made an extremely successful transition to television. In 1988, she began a ten-season run as the title character of Murphy Brown. Her performances as the television journalist and single mother earned her five Emmys for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. More recently, she has been a two-time Emmy nominee as Shirley Schmidt on Boston Legal.

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Happy Birthday Candice Bergen!

Candice Patricia Bergen, 79

Born May 9, 1946, the beloved American actress won five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards as the title character on Murphy Brown (1988–1998, 2018). 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).

On September 27, 1980, Bergen married French film director Louis Malle. They had one child, a daughter named Chloe Françoise, in 1985. The couple were married until Malle's death from cancer on Thanksgiving Day in 1995.

She was married to New York real estate magnate and philanthropist Marshall Rose from 2000 to his death on February 15, 2025 from Parkinson's disease.