Born in the Netherlands in 1948. His mother was the daughter of a Belgian Senator and Brewer, his father a Dutch Tanner. Bo finished Law School at Utrecht University in 1973, obtained a Master of Laws in Air and Space Law at McGill University in Montreal, worked at the United Nations at the International Women's Year and was in-house Legal Counsel for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines from 1976 until 1993, after which he started Lamu Industries, Solid Mahogany Tables. He is again available as a film actor.