Biografie

First female host of Saturday Night Live (1975).

Appeared on Folge #8.34 (1958), an episode of Groucho Marx's game show, at age 12, along with her father and Groucho's daughter Melinda Marx. Candice actually sang with Groucho on the show.

She made instant headlines in 1992 when then Vice President Dan Quayle criticized Murphy Brown (1988) for creating the storyline of Murphy having a baby out of wedlock. Quayle suffered a fair amount of backlash and ridicule for his remarks and "Murphy Brown" continued to be a highly popular show, right up to its last season in 1998. Speaking to TV reporters in 2002, Bergen stated, "I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless, but his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did".

Has played the same character (Murphy Brown) on four different series: Murphy Brown (1988), Seinfeld (1989), Zwei in der Tinte (1996) and Family Guy (1999).

She was kicked out of the University of Pennsylvania after failing two subjects. She said that she failed one of those classes, art, because she simply could not get to her 8am class on time.

[on Burt Reynolds]: I have always said Burt's sensitivity and generosity were in great measure responsible for my Academy Award nomination for Auf ein Neues (1979).

...Hollywood has been vulgarized, mostly by television, which vulgarizes everything.

I may not be the greatest actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.

On her less-than voluptuous figure: I'd LIKE to have boobs.

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.