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,
Margaret S. Collins in "Ecology, the journal of the Ecological Society of America". When Collins received her PhD., she became the third African-American female zoologist and the first African-American female entomologist. Dr. Margaret S. Collins became an assistant professor Howard University in Washington, District of Columbia; while Collins’s first husband, Bernard Strickland attended Howard University’s Medical School. Collins later divorced Strickland and left Howard University because it did not treat its women faculty the same as its men faculty. As a result, Collins started working for Florida A&M University, while there Collins married her second husband Herbert L. Collins and had two sons.