american actress raquel welchremembered for films like ‘One Million Years BC.’ (A million years ago, in its title in Spanish) and for being a sexual icon of the sixties, he passed away this Wednesday at the age of 82 after an illness.
Welch’s family confirmed the death to the celebrity portal TMZ and assured that the death occurred after the actress suffered “a brief illness“Of which no further details were given.
The daughter of a Bolivian engineer who moved to the United States, Raquel Welch was born in Chicago in 1940. Her path in the entertainment industry began with Elvis Presley with a small role in ‘Roustabout’ (1964) and later he would get jobs with more weight in films like ‘Fantastic Voyage‘ (Amazing Journey) (1966).
His career took off with the prehistoric adventure ‘One Million Years BC’ (1966). The image of Welch and her iconic bikini cemented her status as a ‘sex-symbol’ in a tape whose promotional poster went down in movie history.
Her beauty and erotic potential were taken advantage of by the industry, which created for her one of the most macho nicknames in Hollywood: ‘The body‘.
The actress was also part of titles like ‘Lady in Cement‘ (1968), along with Frank Sinatra and some of his most remembered tapes are the western ‘Hannie Caulder‘ (1971) and ‘Fatham‘ (1967)
Source: Lasexta
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