Born on May 9, 1946, in Beverly Hills, California, Candice Bergen started out as a model before turning to acting. She received an Oscar nomination for her role in the 1979 film Starting Over. Bergen is best known for her title role on the sitcom Murphy Brown, winning five Emmys during the show's original 10-year run. She also co-starred with William Shatner on ABC's Boston Legal starting in 2005.
Bergen's brother is Kris Bergen, a film and TV editor. She was married to the French filmmaker Louis Malle from 1980 to 1995, when he died of cancer at the age of 63. Their daughter Chloe was born in 1985. In June 2000, Bergen married her longtime boyfriend, New York real estate executive and philanthropist Marshall Rose.
More than three decades after penning her first memoir, Bergen published a second one, A Fine Romance, in 2015.