Candice Bergen
cityfile · 02/03/08 09:40PMA preppy pin-up in the '70s, Candice Bergen later became famous as TV's favorite uptight working woman, Murphy Brown. Raised in Hollywood, Bergen was the daughter of popular radio ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. After getting kicked out of Penn for poor grades, she turned to modeling before earning her first role in Sidney Lumet's 1966 film The Group. A string of starlet roles earned her celebrity status thereafter in the '70s, but her career cooled at the end of the decade. She returned to the spotlight in 1988 playing an acerbic TV newscaster on Murphy Brown, and stayed with the show until 1998, winning five Emmys along the way. In the early ‘90s, she had a highly-publicized spat with then-Vice President Dan Quayle after he blasted Murphy Brown for promoting single motherhood. Post-Murphy, she (unwisely) turned down a job on 60 Minutes to host her own Oxygen network talk show, which was cancelled after a year. She's since had roles in a few lackluster comedies, like Miss Congeniality, Sweet Home Alabama, and View from the Top. Her career took a turn upward in 2005 when she joined the cast of Boston Legal as Shirley Schmidt, receiving two Emmy nominations for the role. Bergen bas been married twice, first to French film director Louis Malle, who succumbed to cancer in 1995, and then to real estate developer Marshall Rose in 2000. She has one daughter, Chloé, from her first marriage.