Bo Derek Bo Derek Bo Derek (born Mary Cathleen Collins; November 20, 1956) is an American film and television actress, film producer, and model perhaps best known for her breakthrough role in the 1979 film "10". The film also launched a bestselling poster for Derek in a swimsuit, and subsequently she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1980s. She was directed by husband John Derek in "Tarzan, the Ape Man" (1981), "Bolero" (1984) and "Ghosts Can't Do It" (1989), all of which received negative reviews. A widow since 1998, she lives with actor John Corbett. Now in semi-retirement,
Mary Jean Collins for a Free Choice, a Board member of Choice USA, and a Vice-President of People For the American Way. She is featured in the feminist history film "She's Beautiful When She's Angry". The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America holds some of her papers in a collection titled "Papers of NOW officer Mary Jean Collins, 1966-1988". Mary Jean Collins Mary Jean Collins (born 1939 in Wisconsin) is an American activist. She joined the National Organization for Women in 1967, and she was elected as the Chicago Chapter of NOW's president after moving to that