Award winning actress Candice Bergen was recently inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame, recognition for career excellence and enduring contributions to television.
The former model has been a gay girl favorite since her big screen debut as an aloof university student in The Group (1966), which touched on the then-forbidden subject of lesbianism. A few years later Bergen again titillated her Sapphic fans when she played a frustrated socialite who has a lesbian affair in The Adventurers.
While Bergen's career has included a long string of film appearances and even an Oscar nomination for Starting Over, most fans know her for her work in television.
From 1988 to 1998 Bergen lent her comedic talents to the role of a tough, smart - and funny -- investigative journalist and TV anchor, Murphy Brown, earning her two Golden Globes and five Emmy Awards. After her fifth Emmy win, she declined future nominations for the role.
Murphy Brown hit on some hot button issues of the day but is probably best remembered for sparring with Vice President Dan Quayle about single motherhood. And who can forget her string of incompetent secretaries... 93 of them during the course of the show, including Bette Midler, Rosie O'Donnell, Sally Field and even John F. Kennedy Jr. A story-arc in the show's last year about breast cancer helped raise awareness and also stirred controversy when Murphy Brown used medical marijuana.
Most recently we saw Bergen as lawyer Shirley Schmidt, in Boston Legal, for which she also received Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. She also appeared as herself as Karen Walker's nemesis on Will and Grace.
Bergen, 64, is the daughter of ventriloquist, comedian, and actor Edgar Bergen. She has a daughter with French film director Louis Malle to whom she was married from 1981 until his death in 1995. She is currently married to New York real estate magnate and philanthropist Marshall Rose.
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