Personal Info
Nellie Paulina Burgin
Polly Bergen
Acting
Biography
Polly Bergen (born Nellie Paulina Burgin; July 14, 1930 – September 20, 2014) was an American actress, singer, television host, writer and entrepreneur. She won an Emmy Award in 1958 for her performance as Helen Morgan in The Helen Morgan Story. For her stage work, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Carlotta Campion in Follies in 2001. Her film work included Cape Fear (1962) and The Caretakers (1963), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She hosted her own weekly vari…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Actress
Struck by Lightning
as Grandma
Candles on Bay Street
as Rosemary
A Very Serious Person
as Mrs. A
Doris Day: It's Magic
as Self
In the Blink of an Eye
as Murial
For Hope
as Molly Altman
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
as Miss Maybry
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde
The Surrogate
as Sandy Gilman
TV Shows
Commander in Chief
as Kate Allen · 10 ep.
Desperate Housewives
as Stella Wingfield · 10 ep.
The Sopranos
as Fran Felstein · 1 ep.
Twice in a Lifetime
as Judge Deborah · 2 ep.
Touched by an Angel
as Stella Applegate · 1 ep.
Burke's Law
as Rachel Doucet · 1 ep.
Baby Talk
as Doris Campbell · 23 ep.
War and Remembrance
as Rhoda Henry · 12 ep.
Jake and the Fatman
as Emma Julian · 1 ep.
Murder, She Wrote
as Dr. Jocelyn Laird · 1 ep.
