Candice Bergen

Candice Bergen shined as the feisty eponymous broadcast news legend of the groundbreaking critically acclaimed CBS comedy series Murphy Brown, for which she received five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards over the 10-year run. She served as an executive producer when she returned to that iconic role in the pop CBS revival in the fall of 2018.  She starred that same year in the box office hit The Book Club alongside Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, and Mary Steenburgen and in 2023 the same cast returned in its sequel Book Club: The Next Chapter. Other more recent work includes the HBO Max film Let Them All Talk with Meryl Streep and Diane Wiest directed by Steven Soderbergh and As Sick As They Made Us with Dustin Hoffman directed by Mayim Bialik.

Film credits include Starting Over, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, Carnal Knowledge, Getting Straight, Gandhi, Rich and Famous, Home Again, Sweet Home Alabama, and Miss Congeniality among many others. Additional television credits include Boston Legal, which garnered her two Emmy nominations as well as a Golden Globe and SAG nomination, and episodic work in Sex and the City and the current season of Shrinking. Broadway credits include the original production of Hurly Burly, Gore Vidal’s 2012 production of The Best Man, and Love Letters opposite Alan Alda.

Bergen’s autobiography, Knock Wood, was released in 1984 to critical acclaim and became a New York Times bestseller, as did its sequel, A Fine Romance published in 2015.