Actress Raquel Welch has died at 82

Raquel Welch, actress A million years before Christ (1966), in which she became famous as a sex symbol because of her clothing, a deerskin bikini, has died at the age of 82, American media announced today.

According to relatives, Welch died after a sudden illness.

From the 1960s and 1970s, she became one of the most sought-after actresses, and for that she received awards: Golden Globe for Best Actress feature musical or comedy, for his role in Three Musketeers (1974).

He was named one of the 100 sexiest stars in film history for the magazine Empirein 1995, and she also came in 3rd place on a similar list of the 100 sexiest stars of the 20th century by Playboy magazine.

One of his last appearances on the big screen was in 2017, in the movie How to be a Latin loverwith two main actors whom he called “fonidos”, Eugenio Derbez and Rob Lowe. “You can never have too many good things! Sigh!” he said then.

One of his most memorable appearances, on the Cher show in 1975, was a performance with the singer theme I am a womanfor which he later made a funny version in Muppet showin a duet with Miss Piggy.

Welch married four times, with James Welch, from whom he took his surname for the rest of his life, Patrick Curtis, Andrea Weinfield and Richard Palmer. They had two children, Tahnee and Damon Welch.

nickname Body Because of her shapely figure, Welch was of Latin American descent. Her birth name was Jo Raquel Tejada. He was born in Chicago to an American mother and a Bolivian father (Armando Tejada Urquizo). among his relatives is the former president of Bolivia, Lidia Gueller Tejada.

He shared star roles in the cinema Marcello Mastroianni, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, Dean Martin, Burt Reynolds and Fernando Lamas. In the comedy, he embodied one of the deadly sins, lust To hell with the devil (1967).

He also made a career on Broadway, in titles such as woman of the year and Victor or Victoria.

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