The Hollywood actress and sex symbol died on Wednesday February 15, 2023 at the age of 82. His death was confirmed at the end of the day after being announced by TMZ.
This is very sad news for the world of cinema, the actress Raquel Welch died on Wednesday February 15 2023. The American gossip magazine TMZ announced the news during the day then it’s his manager who confirmed his death through an official press release to AFP. We can read there that the actress is “passed away peacefully early this morning after a brief illness “. The octogenarian leaves behind a bereaved family, including her children, Damon and Tahnee, whom she had during her first marriage.
Real name Raquel Welch, Jo Raquel Tejadawas an actress who rose to prominence in the 1960s, specifically in 1966 for her role of Loana in the film One million years BC. AD. It is thanks to tiny deerskin bikini that the young woman becomes a real sex symbol. After that she will chain roles in The fantastic journey by Richard Fleischer, Bandolero!, The Hundred Rifles or Myra Breckinridge. To finally winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress in 1973 for her role as Constance Bonacieux in the film The three Musketeers by Richard Lester.
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Fifty years of career
In 1995, Raquel Welch was nominated by theEmpire Magazine as being one of the 100 sexiest stars in movie history then ranked third in the classification of Playboy gathering the 100 sexiest stars of the 20th century. The actress has had four marriages. The first with James Welch, whose name she kept from 1959 to 1964, then with Patrick Curtis from 1967 to 1972, André Weinfeld from 1980 to 1990 and finally with Richard Palmer from 1999 to 2008. She then declared in Piers Morgan’s Life Stories that her marriages had not worked out, as she was ” too set on his habits » and that she had « no need to have a man in your life “.
A impressive film career for the actress who will shoot her last film How to be a latin lover in 2017. She does not neglect the small screen and accepts roles in the hit series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Central Park West, Sabrina the Teenage WitchorSeinfeldAndSpin City. Our condolences go out to his loved ones.