Date of Birth : Nov 20th 1956
Her first on screen performance was in Fantasies (1973). Derek turned down a role in the King Kong remake,[4] and also turned down the role of Iris Steensma in Taxi Driver that ultimately went to child actress Jodie Foster, making her second film 1977’s Orca: the Killer Whale, in which her character’s leg was bitten off when the whale attacked her home on a pier.
Derek first came to prominence when she 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 cornrow hairstyle in the film was widely copied and became eponymous. As a result of the film, Bo received a Golden Globe nomination for new star of the year, but lost out to Bette Midler for The Rose.
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 and physique seemed to overshadow the focus on Tarzan himself. She followed this film with the sexually charged Bolero and a subsequent role in her husband’s production Ghosts Can’t Do It.
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