Candice Bergen

Candice Patricia Bergen was born in Los Angeles in 1946 and is the daughter of a ventriloquist and actor named Edgar Bergen ( Letter of Introduction ), and a model. During her university years, she appeared in various plays that helped her to acquire tables on stage, and she combined this occupation with some work as a model, a profession for which she was worth given her photogenic nature and natural beauty. At the age of 20, Candice had her first opportunity in the cinema at the hands of Sydney Lumet, playing a lesbian in The Group (1966), and in the same year she gave the replica to Steve McQueen in The Yang- tse on fire, where the critics gave the leading couple a good grade for the good chemistry they squandered. Not only that, Candice Bergen earned a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Promising Newcomer.

But from then on, his career did not take off as much as he would have liked, as he received roles in some television series and opportunities in minor films such as Guy Green ‘s The Magus (1968) , in which he shared a plane with Anthony Quinn and Michael Caine ; or The Rakes (1970) by Lewis Gilbert . Similarly, he worked on the sordid Carnal Knowledge (1971), a film by Mike Nichols ( Closer ), in which he starred alongside Jack Nicholson .

In 1975 John Milius called him to star alongside Sean Connery in The Wind and the Lion , an adventure and romance film that he could not refuse. The film garnered several nominations and good reviews, and served to further the career of Bergen, who wanted to show that she was more than just a pretty face.

Director Richard Brooks soon set eyes on her for his next project, Bite the Bullet , a humorous western opposite Gene Hackman and James Coburn ; and with Hackman himself he repeated it in his next film, From prison to first page , a magnificent thriller directed by Stanley Kramer , and based on a novel by Adam Kennedy.

He had time for a romantic film in that sugary Oliver Story , which was a sequel to Love Story , wherethe Bergenwas Ryan O’Neal’s partner. With Alan J. Pakula ‘s Starting Over , Candice Bergen was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and her next film, George Cukor ‘s The Rich and Famous became the film for which the actress would be best remembered. In addition, it was the last work of her director and Bergen shared a plane with Jacqueline Bisset , playing two friends and the future of their lives.

In between these two films, Bergen took the opportunity to marry the director and screenwriter Louis Malle , and later Bergen returned to the screen participating in the Oscar-winning Gandhi , but he hardly had other relevant titles as his career moved towards second-rate films and his leading role in the series Murphy Brown , for which he won several awards and several Emmys

In 2000 she returned to the big screen with the comedy Miss Congeniality , in which she played a perfidious director of a beauty pageant, coming face to face with Sandra Bullock and Michael Caine. And her career began to move along this humorous terrain in films like Sweet Home Alabama , Till Death Do You Part or The Women . She also took the opportunity to delve into terror with John Badham ‘s The House on the Cliff , and appeared in the hit series, Boston Legal .

He has just released Bride Wars , a romantic comedy alongside some irritating Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway , in which Bergen plays a wedding planner.

On a personal level, Candice Bergen remained with her husband Louis Malle until his death in 1995, and their daughter Chloe was born from that union. In 2000, she was remarried to millionaire Marshall Rose. She is a vegetarian and she claims that “in my work I have never done anything to encourage my vanity and arrogance”. She has written her biography in the book ‘Knock Wood’, she speaks perfect French and is a good friend of the actress Christine Kaufmann ( A certain La Roca ). At the moment she does not have any projects ahead of her, that we know of, but it would not be strange to see her again in a comedy, a genre in which she performs very well.