Bo Derek (born Mary Cathleen Collins in November 20, 1956, Long Beach, California) is an American film actress and model of Irish, German and Dutch descent.

She was married to an actor Thirty years older, John Derek, from 1974 until his death around 1998. It met when you took cinematography of the moving picture, & afterward, John filed for divorcement from either his married woman, actress Linda Evans.

She appeared inside Orca: the Killer Whale (1977), in which her character's (Annie) leg was bitten off after the whale attacked her personal in a pier.

Derek co-starred in the 1979 Blake Edwards film 10, in which she vied using the distasteful-foul-spoken Julie Andrews for Dudley Moore's attention. Her appearance in the popular sex farce shot her to instant stardom & status as a sex symbol, which may will have as much to wash by having her unusual hair style in the film (cornrows) up to any acting talent.

A plotline of Ten involves the woman world health organization seems better-than-right to the protagonist (Moore), until he actually gets to underst& her and understands she just can not satisfy his expectations... the role so ironically seeming to exist as a metaphor for her career.

Subsequent films keep close at hand non been easily-received by either a public or even critics. A 1981 film Tarzan, the Ape Man was a disappointment. A producers of the film were actually sued per Edgar Rice Burroughs Estate over a title of the film, since it focussed extra in how else numbers of ways to disrobe Jane (Derek's role), than in Tarzan himself.

A sex-drenched Bolero (1984) fundamentally ended any possibility of the material film career. Her subsequent role within her hubby's production ''Ghosts Can't Do It firmly cemented her reputation as a sex object.

Bolero & Tarzan, a Ape Human'' earned her a dubious honor of quaternary Golden Raspberry Awards, when well as a nomination within 2000 as a "Worst Actress of the Century". Her virtually all respectable showing wwhen as Jamie Kennedy's mom & Ryan O'Neal's wife in Malibu's Most Wanted (2003).

She is as well the conservative Republican world health organization supported George H.W. Bush and campaigned for his son, George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, and she appeared at both Republican conventions.[http://www.jerseygop.com/RepublicanBabes.html]

Presently, Derek accept her swain, actor John Corbett, in Seattle, Washington. She published her autobiography in February 5th, 2002 entitled "Riding Lessons, Everything I learned in life I learned from horses." She sells autographed copies in her internet site for America $50.00