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Raquel Welch

American actress

Raquel Welch

Born:September 5, 1940

Died:February 15, 2023

Age at death:82

Manner of death:Natural Causes

Cause of death:Cardiac Arrest

Zodiac Sign:Virgo

Children:2

Born in:Chicago, United States

Languages:English

ActorTelevision ActorFilm ActorWriterSingerModelMusician

Links

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Famous For

Movies & TV

Legally BlondeNaked Gun 33⅓: The Final InsultFantastic VoyageOne Million Years B.C.Spin City

Books

Raquel : Beyond the CleavageRaquel : Beyond the Cleavage

Awards

star on Hollywood Walk of FameGolden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Biography

Jo Raquel Welch (née Tejada; September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress. Welch first gained 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 Million Years B.C. (1966). Although Welch had only three lines of dialogue in the film, images of her in a doe-skin bikini became bestselling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970), Hannie Caulder (1971), Kansas City Bomber (1972), The Last of Sheila (1973), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Wild Party (1975), and Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976). She made several television variety specials. Through her portrayal of strong female characters, helping her break the mold of the traditional sex symbol, Welch developed a unique film persona that made her an icon of the 1960s and 1970s. Her rise to stardom in the mid-1960s was partly credited with ending Hollywood's vigorous promotion of the blonde bombshell. She won a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy in 1974 for her performance as Constance Bonacieux in The Three Musketeers and reprised the role in its sequel the following year. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Television Film for her performance in Right to Die (1987). Her final film was How to Be a Latin Lover (2017). In 1995, Welch was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History". Playboy ranked Welch No. 3 on their "100 Sexiest Stars of the Twentieth Century" list.

This biography uses content from the Wikipedia article “Raquel Welch”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.

Quotes

“Whatever my film work was, it was a departure from the sex symbol previously, who was blonde and more docile than the characters I portrayed as a sex symbol…I think it was a different role for women. Women watch other women, and they are affected by that.”

— On how she felt that her early roles were a form of liberation in “Body of Work: Screen Siren Raquel Welch Gets Her Lincoln Center Retrospective” in The Observer (New York, February 7, 2012)

“I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous, and fortunate misunderstanding.”

— Quoted in "40 stunning snapshots of Raquel Welch" Purple Clover (August 31, 2017)

“I wanted a storybook life, to be Rapunzel and Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, all the beautiful ladies that wonderful men came along on their big white horses and dragged away. Which is not remarkable, a lot of kids grow up that way. But I decided it was gonna happen.”

Quotes sourced from the Wikiquote article "Raquel Welch", available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.

Photos

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Press photo of Raquel Welch, 1967

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President Ronald Reagan, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Nancy Reagan, and Warren Buffet (2-7) State Visit to Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, Dinner Toast President Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Raquel Welch, Michael J. Fox, Nancy McKeon, Andre Weinfeld, and Natalie Cole (8-22) State Visit to Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, Dinner President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan (23-32) State Visit to Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, Dinner

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President Ronald Reagan, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Nancy Reagan, Mrs. Lee, Selwa Roosevelt, Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Raquel Welch, Lou Cannon, Mary Cannon, Michael J. Fox, Nancy McKeon, Shirley Temple Black, Andre Weinfeld (2-33) State Visit to Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, Receiving Line

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Nancy Reagan with Raquel Welch and Andre Weinfeld in The Blue Room for a State Dinner for Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, 10/8/1985

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Theater advertisement for the film, Myra Breckinridge. 29 July, 1970.

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Raquel Welch recibe un homenaje en Valencia. A su lado Bertin Osborne, detrás Juan Piquer

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The photo contact sheet, identified as A3798 by the White House Photographic Office (WHPO), is housed at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, a branch of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). This file is a 200 dpi photo contact sheet having images from roll of film A3798 of the August 9, 1974 - January 20, 1977 Gerald R. Ford White House Photographic Office Series A0001-A9999 and B0001-B2886 photographs. The date on the photo contact sheet is the date the roll of film was processed, not necessarily the date the photographs were taken. See table below for additional details.

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The photo contact sheet, identified as A3796 by the White House Photographic Office (WHPO), is housed at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, a branch of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). This file is a 200 dpi photo contact sheet having images from roll of film A3796 of the August 9, 1974 - January 20, 1977 Gerald R. Ford White House Photographic Office Series A0001-A9999 and B0001-B2886 photographs. The date on the photo contact sheet is the date the roll of film was processed, not necessarily the date the photographs were taken. See table below for additional details.

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The photo contact sheet, identified as A3813 by the White House Photographic Office (WHPO), is housed at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, a branch of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). This file is a 200 dpi photo contact sheet having images from roll of film A3813 of the August 9, 1974 - January 20, 1977 Gerald R. Ford White House Photographic Office Series A0001-A9999 and B0001-B2886 photographs. The date on the photo contact sheet is the date the roll of film was processed, not necessarily the date the photographs were taken. See table below for additional details.

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