Polly Bergen

Polly Bergen has enjoyed an illustrious career spanning five decades of appearances on stage, screen, television, radio and recordings. She received an Emmy nomination for her role as Stella Wingfield (Felicity Huffman's mother) on the hit ABC-TV series, Desperate Housewives. She co-starred opposite Geena Davis and Donald Sutherland on the ABC-TV drama series, Commander-in-Chief as well as starred in Hallmark Hall of Fame's Candles on Bay Street and The Sopranos.

Ms. Bergen wrote the story and co-produced the NBC movie of the week, Leave of Absence that starred Jacqueline Bisset, Blythe Danner and Brian Dennehy. She received Tony and Drama Desk nominations for her performance in the Roundabout's Broadway revival of Follies. She also starred on Broadway in Cabaret with Raul Esparza.

Other Broadway credits include Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, Love Letters, First Impressions, Champagne Complex & John Murray Anderson's Almanac and Plaza Suite at Chicago's Theatre in the Round. She also starred in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues at the New York Westside Theatre, A Little Night Music at Center Stage in Baltimore and she appeared at the 92nd Street Y in The Man That Got Away: Ira After George for the Lyrics and Lyricists Series.

Ms. Bergen has accumulated more than 300 film and television credits, including the classic films Cape Fear and Move Over Darling, John Waters' Cry Baby and starred as the first woman president of the United States in Kisses for My President. Also, she received an Emmy for The Helen Morgan Story and two Emmy nominations for Winds of War and War and Remembrance.

She has recorded numerous successful albums, including the award winning Bergen Sings Morgan and has written 3 bestsellers. Well known as a woman's activist since the 1960's, she is involved with both Naral and Planned Parenthood. She is also listed in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World.

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