Candice Bergen, daughter of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, is a former fashion model and a darling of the television industry. A five-time Emmy winner for early-1990s sitcom
Murphy Brown, Bergen has since graced the small screen as a
Special Guest Star in series such as
Seinfeld,
Law & Order,
Sex and the City and
Will And Grace. Younger tropers will most likely remember her as Shirley Schmidt, the
foxy, feisty, brilliant attorney lusted after (and loved) by both Denny Crane and Alan Shore in the hit series
Boston Legal.
Bergen is no stranger to the silver screen, either. She made her big-screen
breakout in
Carnal Knowledge and has since starred in critically acclaimed films such as
The Wind And The Lion and
A Night Full of Rain as well as such blockbusters as
Miss Congeniality,
Sex and the City and
Sweet Home Alabama. She even earned herself an
Oscar nomination in 1979 for the hit romance
Starting Over, but lost to the acting
tour de force that was
Meryl Streep in
Kramer Vs Kramer.
Oh, and did we mention she is very,
very sexy?
Applicable Tropes:
- And Starring - She gets the "with" in the Boston Legal credits, right before William Shatner.
- Defrosting Ice Queen - Candice started out as a debutante with an Ice Queen reputation, but has softened over the years, largely thanks to her role in Murphy Brown, where she was finally able to showcase her comedic side.
- Former Teen Rebel - She was a political activist in her younger years, and was involved in a prank that resulted in the temporary shutdown of the New York Stock Exchange.
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