Bo Derek is an American film and television actress, film producer, and model perhaps best known for her breakthrough film role in the sex comedy 10. She was directed by husband John Derek in Fantasies, Tarzan, the Ape Man, Bolero and Ghosts Can’t Do It, all of which received negative reviews. A widow since 1998, she lives with actor John Corbett.
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Bo Derek is an American film and television actress, film producer, and model perhaps best known for her breakthrough film role in the sex comedy 10. She was directed by husband John Derek in Fantasies, Tarzan, the Ape Man, Bolero and Ghosts Can’t Do It, all of which received negative reviews. A widow since 1998, she lives with actor John Corbett. Now in semi-retirement, she makes occasional film, television, and documentary appearances. Derek was born Mary Cathleen Collins in Long Beach, California. Her father, Paul Collins, was a Hobie Cat executive, and her mother, Norma, was a make-up artist and hairdresser to Ann-Margret. Collins attended Narbonne High School and George S. Patton Continuation School. Collins and John Derek married on June 10, 1976; she was 19 and he 49. In 1980 Derek photographed Bo twice for Playboy magazine. Derek’s appearance in a dream sequence, racing towards Moore in a flimsy flesh-colored swimsuit, launched her status as a mainstream sex symbol.
In 1977 director, Michael Anderson cast Derek in a small role in his horror film Orca – The Killer Whale, in which Derek’s character has her leg bitten off by the title character. In 1979, Derek was allegedly selected over Melanie Griffith, Heather Thomas, and several others for the role of Jenny Hanley in the romantic comedy film 10. Derek shared the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress with Faye Dunaway, the latter for her role as Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest. For her performance in the 1981 film Tarzan the film became the 15th highest-grossing film of 1981 and becoming the second-highest box-office success of that year. Derek played a college student who has an affair with her older, married professor in A Change of Seasons, a dramatic-comedy film that featured Shirley MacLaine and Anthony Hopkins. In the film, Derek’s cornrow hairstyle in the film have often been parodied.
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