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Raquel Welch

Actress

Born - 5 September 1940, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died - 15 February 2023

Chestnut-haired, open-mouthed, big-busted American actress, the sex symbol of the 1960s. Later she showed a talent for warm comedy, especially in the TV series Date My Dad, looking nothing like her 76 years. She had previously proved her durability in the 1980s when she became a Broadway musical star, nightclub attraction and best-selling author of fitness courses. Bursting on the movie scene in deerskin bikini in One Million Years BC (1965), her many other credits included Roustabout (1964), Do Not Disturb (1965), Fantastic Voyage (1966), Fathom (1967), Lady in Cement (1968), Bandolero! (1968), Flareup (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970), Hannie Caulder (1971), Fuzz (1972), The Three Musketeers: The Queen's Diamonds (1973), The Four Musketeers: The Revenge of Milady (1974), Mother, Jugs and Speed (1976), The Prince and the Pauper (1977), Naked Gun 33 and a Third: The Final Insult (1994), Chairman of the Board (1997), What I Did for Love (1998), Legally Blonde (2001), Forget About It (2006) and How to Be a Latin Lover (2017), her last. Born Raquel Tejada, she was four times married. She died from cardiac arrest and Alzheimer's complications.