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Donato Sardella/Getty Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch, a longtime actress, worldwide intercourse image and Golden Globe winner, has died, PEOPLE confirms. She was 82.
Welch “handed away peacefully early this morning after a short sickness,” her supervisor Steve Sauer confirmed to PEOPLE on Wednesday.
Sauer added, “Her profession spanned over 50 years starring in over 30 movies and 50 tv sequence and appearances. The Golden Globe winner, in newer years, was concerned in a really profitable line of wigs. Raquel leaves behind her two youngsters, son Damon Welch and her daughter Tahnee Welch.
TMZ was first to report the information.
Welch made her movie debut within the mid Nineteen Sixties, with breakout roles in 1966’s Implausible Voyage and One Million Years B.C. that very same 12 months.
She would go on to star in dozens of movies, together with 1973’s The Three Musketeers, which earned her a Golden Globe for finest actress in a movement image comedy or musical.
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Getty Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. (1966)
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Different titles beneath her belt embody 100 Rifles, The Prince and the Pauper, Chairman of the Board, Legally Blonde and extra. Her closing movie function was in 2017’s How you can Be a Latin Lover. She additionally memorably carried out “I am a Girl” with Cher again in 1975 on The Cher Present.
Welch grew to become a pin-up after flaunting her curves in 1966’s camp basic One Million Years B.C. However behind the glamour, the star (born Jo Raquel Tejada) was a hardworking single mother whose profession as a intercourse bomb helped her elevate two youngsters after splitting from her first husband in 1964.
The actress, whose e-book Past the Cleavage grew to become a bestseller, beforehand informed PEOPLE as she celebrated her seventieth birthday in 2010, “I by no means thought life was going to provide me one thing for nothing.”
Silver Display screen Assortment/Getty Raquel Welch in 1967
Born in Chicago to a Bolivian-born engineer and his American spouse, “By age 7 I knew I needed to be an actress,” Welch stated on the time.
She continued, “My dad and mom enrolled me in a theater program. You can get away from among the painfulness of actual life. I all the time had flights of fancy.”
Crediting her resilience to her mother, Josephine, she added on the time, “I’ve had an incredible life — and it isn’t over but!”
