Five-time Emmy winner Candice Bergen P'08, best known for playing the title role on the CBS sitcom "Murphy Brown" from 1988-1998, will deliver the Parents Weekend keynote lecture Saturday evening. The event, "A Conversation with Candice Bergen," will take place in Salomon 101 at 6 p.m.
Though Bergen is best known for playing star investigative reporter Murphy Brown for 11 years, she has been famous for nearly her entire life. The daughter of famed actor, radio performer and ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, she occasionally appeared on her father's show when she was a child. She later became a star in her own right in the mid-1960s when she appeared opposite Steve McQueen and Richard Attenborough in "The Sand Pebbles." Bergen was also acclaimed for playing Margaret Bourke-White in Attenbor-ough's 1982 film "Gandhi." She currently plays the role of attorney Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama "Boston Legal."
The character of Murphy Brown became an unexpected source of political debate in 1992 when then-Vice President Dan Quayle delivered his infamous "family values" speech, in which he criticized Bergen's character for deciding to raise a child as a single mother.
Bergen's lecture is sponsored by the Creative Arts Council, which has brought Dustin Hoffman P'07 and Martin Scorsese to speak at Brown in the past four years.
