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    Raquel Welch. Jo Raquel Welch ( née Tejada; September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress. Welch first garnered attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she signed a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made One ...

  2. Feb 15, 2023 · Welch was born in Chicago on Sept. 5, 1940, and christened Jo Raquel Tejada. Her dad was a Bolivian aeronautical engineer and her mom a seamstress whose ancestry dated to John Quincy Adams.

  3. Feb 15, 2023 · Welch starred in films like "One Million Years B.C." and "The Three Musketeers," and won a Golden Globe for her role in the former. She also appeared in TV shows, Broadway plays and guest roles on "Seinfeld" and "Legally Blonde."

  4. Feb 15, 2023 · FILE - American actress Raquel Welch poses for photographers in Paris on Jan. 15, 1970. Welch, whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film “One Million Years B.C.” would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and ‘70s, died early Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, after a brief illness. She was 82.

  5. Feb 15, 2023 · Raquel Welch had only three lines in the 1966 film “One Million Years B.C.,” but her doeskin bikini did all the talking anyway, launching her as an international icon almost overnight.

  6. Feb 16, 2023 · Raquel Welch, who rose to fame as a sex symbol in the 1960s, has died. She was 82. Welch's son, Damon, confirmed she died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles after a brief illness.

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  8. Feb 15, 2023 · Published Feb. 15, 2023 Updated March 16, 2023. Raquel Welch, the voluptuous movie actress who became the 1960s’ first major American sex symbol and maintained that image for a half-century in ...

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