Darby was born Deborah Zerby in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of professional dancers Inga and Jon Zerby. Her father insisted on calling her "Derby" Zerby because he believed it was a great stagename
She has been married five times, three times to well-known people in Hollywood. Her first marriage was to actor James Stacy . They had one child, Heather. Her second marriage was to B-movie actor James Westmoreland (also known as
Rad Fulton) (February to March 1970). Her fourth marriage was the longest, and was to producer William (Bill) Tennant.
She was romantically involved with actors John David Carson and Pete Duel. She currently lives in Studio City,
California.
A Hollywood native, Darby began performing as a child (billed as Derby Zerby) with her parents, who were known professionally as 'The Dancing Zerbies'. She was a teen-ager when she appeared as an extra in the film "Bye Bye Birdie" (1963) and made her speaking debut on an episode of the TV series "Mr. Novak" (NBC, 1964). She had her first speaking role in a film with "Bus Riley's Back in Town" (1965), but did not get her big break until "True Grit". She was rushed into several subsequent films, including "Norwood" (1970), a vehicle to help launch Glen Campbell in films in which Darby played a pregnant and rejected woman he chances to meet. The same year she was the protesting woman whose presence lures Bruce Davison into the anti-war movement in "The Strawberry Statement" (1970). In 1978, Henry Winkler pursued Darby in "The One and Only" and she was the professor dismayed by the changes in Jason Bateman in "Teen Wolf Too" (1987).
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