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Polly Bergen (born Nellie Paulina Burgin on July 14, 1930, in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American actress, singer, and entrepreneur.

She converted to Judaism after having married Hollywood talent agent Freddie Fields, by whom she had one biological child and two adopted children. She had previously been a Southern Baptist; a grandfather was a Baptist minister. She had two other marriages that also ended in divorce.

Just as other actresses such as Joan Collins and Luise Rainer have done, Bergen publicly revealed that she had undergone an abortion when she was a young woman.

Bergen was a regular panelist on the CBS television game show To Tell the Truth during its debut run.

She played the character of Rhoda Henry in two ABC miniseries, The Winds of War and War and Remembrance.

She appeared in the 2001 Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies at the Belasco Theater and received a Tony Award nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She also appeared on HBO's The Sopranos.

In 2006, Bergen was a semi-regular cast member of Commander-in-Chief as the President's mother. Her role in that series, about the first female President, is notable because Bergen herself once played a President, in the 1964 film Kisses for My President. When not working, Bergen lives quietly amongst her Hollywood pals in the Hills of Litchfield County, Connecticut.

One of her most recent appearances was on CBS's Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation Candles on Bay Street (2006), in which she played the assistant to a husband-and-wife team of veterinarians.

External links

• Polly Bergen—Madame President (fan site)

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