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Bo Derek (born Mary Cathleen Collins on November 20, 1956, Long Beach, California, USA) is a Golden Globe-nominated American film actress and model.
<p>Bo Derek is of Irish, German, Dutch and Welsh descent. Attended Narbonne High School in Harbor City, California, Class of 1974.
<p>She met actor and director John Derek, 30 years her senior, in 1974. John filed for divorce from his wife, actress Linda Evans, and John and Bo married in 1976. They remained married until his death in 1998.
<p>Bo currently lives on a ranch with John Corbett, in the Santa Ynez Valley, California.
<p>Derek's first on screen performance was Orca: the Killer Whale (1977), in which her character (Annie)'s leg was bitten off when the whale attacked her home on a pier.
<p>Derek co-starred in the 1979 Blake Edwards film 10, in which Dudley Moore's character is torn between his love for Julie Andrews and his fascination with Derek. Her appearance shot her to instant stardom and status as a sex symbol. Her beaded and plaited ...
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