All About Candice Bergen's Daughter, Chloe Malle

Candice Bergen's only child has inspired her in creative ways

Candice Bergen may be known for starring in iconic TV shows and movies, but she’s most proud of her role as a mother to her daughter Chloe Malle.

The acclaimed actress and her late husband, French film director and screenwriter Louis Malle, welcomed their only child together in 1985. Bergen and Louis were married for 15 years before his death at age 63 in 1995 from complications related to lymphoma, according to the Los Angeles Times.

“I was very happy being married to Louis,” Bergen told The New York Times in 2020. “He was really a great love of my life and ... then you have a child and they become the love of your life.”

Over the years, Bergen and Chloe have maintained a close relationship, and the Murphy Brown star doesn’t miss a chance to sing her daughter praises.

“She’s probably much more like her father than like me; she has his dynamism and his intellect,” she told the Dallas News in a 2015 interview. “But she gets her sense of humor from me."

Here's everything to know about Candice Bergen's daughter, Chloe Malle.

She's a Scorpio

Bergen and Louis celebrated the arrival of their daughter, Chloe Malle, on Nov. 8, 1985. She was born in New York City and weighed 9 lbs., 2 oz., according to United Press International.

In an excerpt from her 2016 memoir, A Fine Romance, published on CBS News, the actress said Chloe's original due date was in late October and Bergen hoped she would have a Halloween birthday, so it would fall after Louis' birthday. But after the day came and went, the Sex and the City guest star was advised to have a c-section.

Bergen wrote about the difficult labor and delivery she went through, ending with the fact that it was all worth it. “Who knew love was this huge? All-enveloping. All-encompassing. My baby girl,” she penned. “It was clearly the beginning of my life."

She grew up in California and New York

Three years after Chloe's birth, Bergen was cast in the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown, and its success meant the mother and daughter set roots down in Los Angeles.

According to a New York Times interview, after Louis' movie Au Revoir Les Enfants didn't win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1987, he moved back to France and visited Bergen and Chloe in California. The actress also told Dallas News that Louis "didn’t like living or working in Hollywood," and she didn't consider Paris home, so their relationship was long distance.

While in L.A., Bergen's mom and brother helped care for Chloe when she worked, and her filming schedule offered flexibility to be there for her daughter as well. When Chloe was 10, Louis died of complications from lymphoma, and it was a difficult time.

Five years later, Bergen and Chloe moved to N.Y.C., where she went to Riverdale High School, according to the New York Post. After graduating, she attended Brown University to study comparative literature and writing, then took a year-long break in Ethiopia, where she worked as an assistant at a medical practice.

When she returned to the Big Apple, she moved into Bergen’s old home in Central Park South.

She’s a writer and editor

Chloe has written for outlets including The New York Times, Marie Claire, The Wall Street Journal and Architectural Digest, and is a contributing editor at Vogue, per her website.

In a 2014 interview with Into The Gloss, Chloe said she had been a “big reader” for as long as she could remember. After college, she considered going into the public health field before interviewing for a position at the New York Observer and landing an internship.

The job evolved into a full-time role, and she later explored a different side of journalism as a social media editor at Vogue.

“I was hesitant when I was interviewing, because fashion is not one of my main interests in life, and I wanted to be a writer more than an editor, but I was so seduced by the Vogue machine that I couldn’t resist,” she said.

Chloe stayed at the publication for five years until she transitioned into a contributing editor role in 2016, according to LinkedIn.

She hosts a podcast

Aside from lending her editing skills to Vogue, Chloe also co-hosts a podcast for the publication called The Run-Through with Vogue alongside Chioma Nnadi, head of editorial content at British Vogue.

The duo interview celebrities and designers in the fashion world and discuss trends and pop culture moments.

After launching the audio project in November 2022, Chloe called it “a very pleasant surprise,” telling Margaux, “It’s been fun to see what people are interested in.”

In 2024, she also told Vogue that putting together a podcast is much harder than it seems, noting it’s “no small feat.”

Chloe continued, “I’ve talked to a few people who’ve said: ‘Oh, I’ve thought of starting a podcast,’ and I’ve responded: ‘You do not know what this is — it is booking talent, prepping interviews, editing interviews, researching the interviews ahead of time.’ It’s a lot of work!”

She's married

Chloe may have lived in L.A. and N.Y.C. throughout her life, but she has always loved France, where her father grew up and spent most of his time.

She even got married there: In July 2015, The New York Times reported that Chloe and Graham Albert tied the knot at Le Coual, her family’s country home near Cahors, France.

According to the newspaper, the pair met in September 2009 at an Ethiopian New Year’s dinner hosted by a mutual friend, and after dating for four years, they got engaged.

For Chloe, exchanging wedding vows with Albert in France was sentimental. Le Coual is a 16th-century stone manor house in southwestern France that has been in her family for over 50 years.

“I grew up spending every summer there so it made a lot of sense to me to get married there,” she told Vogue after the celebration. “When I first got engaged, I was overwhelmed by the idea of planning a wedding, but as soon as I started thinking about getting married at Le Coual everything felt so natural and easy to imagine.”

She’s a mother

Bergen is also a proud grandmother: Chloe has two children of her own.

Chloe and Albert welcomed their first child together, a son named Louis Albert, on May 19, 2020. Before his birth, Bergen told PEOPLE how “over-the-moon excited” she was to become a grandmother.

“Oh, are you kidding?” she said. “I can’t wait. I know better than to have suggested it to her, so I’ve never asked her, ‘Are you going to have a baby?’ I’ve been very discreet, but I’m just thrilled for her.”

According to Bergen, Chloe handled the beginning of motherhood beautifully. “What’s lovely is seeing her become such a natural mom,” she told Today. “She is so patient and loving with [Louis]. It’s great."

The married couple celebrated the arrival of their second child, a daughter named Alice Malle Albert, on April 1, 2022.

The following year, Chloe told Margaux that having two kids and working full-time required some adjusting.

"Mom of two is really the most time-consuming occupation at the moment, which I’m leaning into,” she said. “Now I’ve just decided ... [to] embrace the fact that they’re going to take most of my time and my logistical mental space.”

She’s an inspiration for her mom

Chloe helps motivate Bergen and is also the muse behind her Bergenbags project.

In 2016, the actress started painting portraits of pets and other doodles on expensive designer handbags — an art form that became popular among her celebrity friends — and she called them “Bergenbags.”

In an Architectural Digest article, Chloe explained that Bergenbags started one Memorial Day weekend in the Hamptons when she arrived with a Louis Vuitton weekender bag she had been meaning to get monogrammed. She shared that Bergen showed her the paint pens she had just purchased and offered to do it herself.

“It seemed the perfect opportunity had presented itself,” Chloe wrote.

On the Bergenbags website, Bergen credits Chloe for the project’s beginnings. “My daughter asked me to decorate her Louis Vuitton duffle,” she writes. “She posted my design on her Instagram and the photo generated a fair amount of positive comment. Since then, friends and colleagues send me their favorite bags and I personalize them with my drawings.”

Chloe was also the driving force behind Bergen’s memoir, A Fine Romance. In a 2015 interview with NPR, the book is described as “a love letter” to Chloe.

Bergen opened up about the experience of having her read the book for the first time, saying “she was very moved.” The actress added, “She got onto the sofa with me and curled up in my lap [and] she said, 'I’m so happy to have something like this. Thank you.' "

Her parents are important to her

Over the years, Bergen has continuously expressed her joy of being Chloe's mother. “The birth of my daughter was the greatest event of my life,” she told The New York Times in 2020.

Chloe’s Instagram is full of cute photos of them spending time together, like visiting the Statue of Liberty in New York and hitting the red carpet. Meanwhile, Bergen enjoys posting throwback pictures and heartfelt snaps with her grandkids.

Although Louis died when Chloe was a child, the two still had a close relationship. In her 2015 interview with NPR, Bergen said that when Louis first became sick with lymphoma, it helped the father and daughter duo become closer.

“Chloe really established a relationship with her father, which she hadn’t had before because of the separations that we just couldn’t avoid,” the actress said, referencing their homes in L.A. and France. "She knew that what she should do is take care of her father."

Bergen continued, "She did it on her own. She did it beautifully and brilliantly and she did it with courage and with humor.”

Decades later, Chloe named her first son after her dad to honor his memory.

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