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 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 city in 1968. That chapter sponsored the Women's Strike for Equality, which occurred in 1970. In the late 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, Collins was a Midwest Regional Director and Board member of NOW, in 1980 she was again elected as the Chicago Chapter of NOW's president, and in 1982 she was elected as national Action Vice-President of NOW; she