“Quietly this morning” actress Raquel Welch has passed away, her family and agent said Wednesday. With a prolific trajectory, the artist was 82 years old. They claimed she was suffering from “a short illness”.
Since his first starring role in 1965, A swinging summerRaquel Welch quickly became a sex symbol, confirming her idol status with legendary films amazing trip AND One million years BCwhere she wore a tiny leather bikini that flattered her statuesque figure.
a meteoric career
Jo Raquel Tejada, her real name, was the daughter of an American and a Bolivian woman of Spanish descent. She then took the surname Welch from her first husband and kept it as her stage name despite their divorce six years later.
As a teenager, she left Chicago and moved to San Diego, where she studied acting and modeling. She soon worked as a TV presenter and advertising model.
Her first break in cinema came with none other than Elvis Presley, with a small role as a schoolgirl in the 1964 musical Roustabout. During those years she also had brief appearances in television series such as The Teenage Witch and The Virginian.
Source: Clarin
