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Bo Derek, Actress, - Biography

Actress, Model,

Height 5 feet 3 & 3/4, 162 cm.

Measurements: 32-22-32 at 16, , 37C-22-34 1983, 38-22-36 1985,
Born Mary Cathleen Collins on November 20, 1956, Long Beach, California

Bo Derek is an American film actress & model. She is of Irish, German, Dutch & Welsh descent. She met actor & director John Derek, 30 years her senior, in 1974. John filed for divorce from his wife, actress Linda Evans, & John & Bo married in 1976. They remained married until his death in 1998. Bo currently lives with actor John Corbett on a ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley, California.

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. Derek co-starred in the 1979 Blake Edwards film 10, in which Dudley Moore's character is torn between his love for Julie Andrews & his fascination with Derek. Her appearance shot her to instant stardom & status as a sex symbol. Her beaded & plaited cornrow hairstyle in the film was widely copied & became eponymous.

The plotline of 10 involves a woman whom the protagonist (Moore) perceives as better-than-perfect, until he actually gets to know her & realizes the great differences in their priorities & lifestyles.

Bo Derek with braided hair in the film 10.Some of Bo Derek's subsequent films were not well-received by either the public or critics. For the 1981 film Tarzan, the Ape Man, the producers of the film were actually sued by the Edgar Rice Burroughs Estate over the name of the film, as Derek's role & physique seemed to overshadow the focus on Tarzan himself.

She followed this film with the sexually charged Bolero & a subsequent role in her husband's production Ghosts Can't Do It.

She made the first of many appearances in Playboy, starting with the March 1980 issue. Her first pictorial (among others) was photographed by then husband John, on a secluded beach along an unnamed area of the Colorado River. The twelve page spread featured a few with her & her pet greyhound together jogging & sunbathing, as well as her sailing & swimming in the river, all nude. She also made the cover (in a bikini). The issue was a sell-out.

Bo Derek in Hot ChocolateBolero & Tarzan, the Ape Man earned her the dubious honor of four Golden Raspberry Awards, as well as a nomination in 2000 as the "Worst Actress of the Century". However, she has lately made a respectable showing as Jamie Kennedy's mom & Ryan O'Neal's wife in Malibu's Most Wanted (2003). In addition, she can be seen on TV in "Fashion House" playing one of the main characters, notorious fashion designer Maria Gianni. Derek was also chosen to be one of the judges in the 2006 Miss Universe pageant.

Bo Derek is ironicly a conservative Republican, despite her many revealing pictures, who supported George H.W. Bush in 1988 & 1992 & campaigned for his son, George W. Bush in 2000 & 2004, & she appeared at both Republican conventions. Derek has also appeared at public events with conservative Republican Congressman David Dreier of Southern California, who of course accept her with open arms, depsite conservatives formerly being on the side of people against nude modeling & such.

Bo Derek has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by President George W. Bush .
A horse lover & riding enthusiast since childhoood, she is the owner of Iberian horses & is a National Spokesperson & Honorary Director of the National Horse Protection Coalition. On February 5, 2002 she published her autobiography entitled "Riding Lessons, Everything that matters in life I learned from horses."

Filmography Fashion House (2006) Maria Gianni
Crusader (2004) (TV) .... Markham
Malibu's Most Wanted (2003) .... Bess Gluckman
Boom (2003) .... Guest appearance
The Master of Disguise (2002) .... Herself
Life in the Balance (2001) .... Kathryn Garr
Sunstorm (2001) .... Victoria Warren
Murder at the Cannes Film Festival (2000) (TV) .... Thada Pryce
Frozen with Fear (2000) .... Katherine Sullivan
Horror 101 (2000) .... Miss Allison James
The Drew Carey Show (1999) .... Herself
Wind on Water (1998) TV Series .... Ciel Connolly (1998)
Tommy Boy (1995) .... Beverly Barish, aka Beverly Burns
Shattered Image (1994) (TV) .... Helen Allgood
Woman of Desire (1993) .... Christina Ford
Hot Chocolate (1992) .... BJ Cassidy
Ghosts Can't Do It (1990) .... Katie O'Dare Scott
Bolero (1984) .... Lida MacGillivery
Fantasies (1981) (as Kathleen Collins) .... Anastasia
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) .... Jane Parker
A Change of Seasons (1980) .... Lindsey Rutledge
10 (1979) .... Jenny Hanley
Orca (1977) .... Annie
Producing:

Ghosts Can't Do It (1990) (producer)
Bolero (1984) (producer)
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) (producer)
On crew:

Complicated Women (2003) (TV) (additional consultant)
Albums:

The Woman In Me (1995). Photographed album cover with Shania Twain

Written in April 2007

Pictures of Bo Derek, her name is not spelt Boh Derek, Bo Dereck, or Bo Derec,

Picture of her in a bikini

Naked

In wet clothes

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