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This blond, pale-eyed sex symbol shot to stardom (and made cornrows fashionable) in the title role of Blake Edwards' 10 (1979), as the "perfect" beauty who's the focus of Dudley Moore's comic obsession. Years earlier, an agent had brought the teenaged girl to actor/director John Derek's attention. He immediately put her in his film Fantasies (shot in 1973), which was not released until the actress-now Mrs. John Derek-was a star, in 1981. (She'd also had a small part in 1977's Orca With the exception of A Change of Seasons (1980), which opened with footage of the well endowed beauty bouncing up and down in a hot tub, most of her remaining films have been directed by her husband-Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981), Bolero (1984), and Ghosts Can't Do It (1990). Recent non-John films include Hot Chocolate (1992), the telefilm Shattered Image Woman of Desire (both 1994), and Tommy Boy (1995).
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– Came to US Congress to support legislation that would ban the killing of horses for gourmet dining overseas. (March 18, 2004)
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– Has launched her own range of canine care products - so your dogs can smell nice enough to jump into your bed.
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– Is firm friends with Griffith, after Griffith asked her permission to copy the famed braided hair style that made Derek a sex symbol in her hit movie.
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– Was nominated for New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture - Female at Golden Globe Award in 1980.
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