Biography
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 Sup...
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Complete Filmography

Book Club: The Next Chapter
2023
as Sharon
Four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls' trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their r...

As They Made Us
2022
as Barbara
Abigail, a divorced mother of two, is struggling to balance the dynamics within her dysfunctional family as she attempts to cultivate new love.

The Capote Tapes
2021
as Self (archive footage)
A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and the New York high society of his time.

Show of Titles
2021
as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
An evening of celebrated stars performing the titles songs from Broadway’s best.

I am a Mennonite
2021
as Interviewee
A filmmaker explores his Mennonite roots and identity.

Let Them All Talk
2020
as Roberta
A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds...

Belushi
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi’s death, director R.J. Cutler’s documentary feature examines the too-short lif...

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
as Self
"Alan Pakula: Going for Truth" encompasses the personal and professional life of Alan J. Pakula, a lauded filmmaker and extremely private man, who was...

Book Club
2018
as Sharon
Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club to get inspir...

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017
as Julia Meyerowitz
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.

Home Again
2017
as Lillian Stewart
Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.

Rules Don't Apply
2016
as Nadine Henly
It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Ang...

In Their Own Words: Jim Henson
2015
as Self - Actor
The film follows Henson’s career from his first work with his Muppets in the early 1950’s during television’s Golden Age up to his sudden and shocking...

Beautiful & Twisted
2015
as Bernice
Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.

Louis Malle, le rebelle
2015
as Self (archiveFootage)

A Merry Friggin' Christmas
2014
as Donna Mitchler
Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hi...

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
as Self
The life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinema: Lord Richard Attenborough.

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's
2013
as Self
It's the most mythic of all American emporiums - and the scene of many an ultimate fashion fantasy. Now audiences get a rarified chance to peek behind...

Inequality for All
2013
as Murphy Brown (archive footage)
Based on Reich's 2010 book Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, the film examines widening income inequality in the United States. U.S....

Elusive Justice
2011
as Narrator
Narrated by Candice Bergen, Elusive Justice is an unprecedented examination of the more than six-decade global hunt for the 20th century's most notori...

The Women of SNL
2010
as Fern (archive footage)
A look back at some of the funniest female characters and sketches in SNL's 39-year history.

The Romantics
2010
as Augusta Hayes
Alliances are tested when seven college pals reunite to watch two of their own say “I do” at a seaside wedding. But the maid of honor and the groom sh...

SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009
Holiday special including brand-new material with Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, the infamous troublemaker "Gilly," and others. The special also features...

Bride Wars
2009
as Marion St. Claire
Two best friends become rivals when their respective weddings are accidentally booked for the same day.

The Women
2008
as Catherine Frazier
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-we...

Sex and the City
2008
as Enid Frick
A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadver...

The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles'
2007
as Self
The Making of 'The Sand Pebbles' features video clips of surviving cast and crew, including Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen, and Neile Adams, the...
William Shatner in Concert
2006
as Self
William Shatner performs a concert of biographical songs that take the audience into the reality of his life and career: from STAR TREK to BOSTON LEGA...

Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live
2005
as Self
A retrospective of the first 5 years of Saturday Night Live.

Footsteps
2003
as Daisy Lowendahl
Daisy Lowendahl is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan who knows almost everything a...
The Passions of Louis Malle
2003
as Self - Interviewee
A documentary portrait of the legendary French film director Louis Malle featuring many of his collaborators including playwrights David Hare and John...

The In-Laws
2003
as Judy Tobias
Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smugglers.

View from the Top
2003
as Sally Weston
No one thought Donna would go very far. But when she sets her sights on becoming a first-class international flight attendant, Donna throws caution to...

Sweet Home Alabama
2002
as Mayor Kate Hennings
New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—inc...

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002
as Self
A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.

Miss Congeniality
2000
as Kathy Morningside
When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at t...

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
as Self
A TV special celebrating the 25th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Before a celebrity audience, many of the former cast members and guest hosts ret...

Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1
1999
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Even big stars need to stand in front of the director and audition for their roles, and some of the best screen tests are from the early years of lege...

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman
1998
as Anne Boleyn
Classic Saturday Night Live skits featuring the hilarious Phil Hartman.

Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
as Self
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "wor...

Mary & Tim
1996
as Mary Horton
Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him ...

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Self
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and write...

The World of Jim Henson
1994
as Self (archive footage)
In this episode of PBS' Great Performances, the history and legacy of puppeteer Jim Henson is explored, from his six-second commercial beginnings to a...

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
as Self (archive footage)
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired on ABC to celebrate Sesame Street's 25th anniversary....

Understanding the Universe
1993
as Narrator
Join astronomers and astrophysicists as they probe light years beyond the Milky Way, in Understanding The Universe, part of TLC's popular television s...

Aretha Franklin: Duets
1993
as Self
A chance to hear admirers including Elton John, Gloria Estefan, Smokey Robinson, PM Dawn, Bonnie Raitt and Rod Stewart sharing a stage with the Queen ...

Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
1990
as Self
A television special broadcast on PBS in honor of composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist Joe Raposo after he passed away.

The Earth Day Special
1990
as Murphy Brown
The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990. Sponsored by Time Warner, the two hour s...

Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge
1989
as Self
A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of tw...

Mayflower Madam
1987
as Sydney Biddle Barrows
Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Biddle Barrows, a driven young socialite, opens an e...

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
1986
as Self
Celebrities are interviewed about the social and working lives of Bugs, Daffy, Porky and the rest of the Looney Tunes.

Murder: By Reason of Insanity
1985
as Ewa Berwid
A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wif...

Stick
1985
as Kyle
After getting out of jail, car thief Ernest "Stick" Stickley witnesses the murder of his friend Rainy during a drug deal. To avoid getting killed by t...

Arthur the King
1985
as Morgan Le Fay
Classic tale of King Arthur and how his wife is kidnapped by his evil sister. Lancelot is sent out to try and retrieve the lost queen and unfortunatel...

2010
1984
as SAL 9000 (voice)
While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvou...
Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi
1983
as Self
The making of the film Gandhi (1982).

Gandhi
1982
as Margaret Bourke-White
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian ...

Rich and Famous
1981
as Merry Noel Blake
Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.

Starting Over
1979
as Jessica Potter
After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.

The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979
as Self
Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film, The Muppet Movi...

Oliver's Story
1978
as Marcie Bonwit
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hour...

A Night Full of Rain
1978
as Lizzy
Lizzy, a liberated American photographer, falls for narrow-minded journalist Paolo. Then finds she can't live with him or without him.

The Domino Principle
1977
as Ellie
Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he wil...

Bite the Bullet
1975
as Miss Jones
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, amo...

The Wind and the Lion
1975
as Eden Pedecaris
At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure ...
The Lion Roars Again
1975
as Self
A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975.

11 Harrowhouse
1974
as Maren Shirell
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen...

T.R. Baskin
1971
as T. R. Baskin
Enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to searc...

The Hunting Party
1971
as Melissa Ruger
A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.

Carnal Knowledge
1971
as Susan
Two lifelong friends navigate complex sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with societal norms and personal desires.

Soldier Blue
1970
as Kathy Maribel Lee, 'Cresta'
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman w...

Getting Straight
1970
as Jan
Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he...

The Adventurers
1970
as Sue Ann Daley
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the co...

The Woody Allen Special
1969
as Self
The Woody Allen Special is a television special that premiered on CBS on 21 September 1969. Allen hosted and wrote the television special show in whic...

The Magus
1968
as Lily
A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman.

The Day the Fish Came Out
1967
as Electra Brown
A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who a...

Live for Life
1967
as Candice
Famous TV newscaster Robert Colomb is married to Catherine, but is continually unfaithful to her. Then he meets, and becomes fascinated with Candice.

The Sand Pebbles
1966
as Shirley Eckert
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution...

The Group
1966
as Lakey
It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own l...
Harvest Moon
N/A
Story about the early months of the pandemic, where a young boy named Charlie tries to get his estranged parents together again.