American actress Raquel Welch died at the age of 82 on Wednesday February 15. According to her family, she succumbed to a brief illness. She had appeared in many films and had played in a lot of series.
The world of cinema is in mourning, this Wednesday, February 15. American actress Raquel Welch died at the age of 82 from a “brief illness”, revealed several American media. She has acted in many films at the cinema, until her last role in 2017, and in a lot of popular series.
She replied to Jean-Paul Belmondo, James Stewart or Franck Sinatra
Raquel Welch was born on September 5, 1940 in Chicago. In the 1950s, she won several beauty contests even before she was 20, such as Miss Photogenic, Miss Contour and Miss Maid of California. She starts as a waitress in posh parties, then becomes a model. From 1964, she landed her first roles in the cinema, often playing the role of the pretty girl, after being noticed by the producer Patrick Curtis, who would become her second husband. She then made a few appearances in television series, including MA beloved witchwhere she plays an air hostess. She lands her first real role in the film The Ogresses, alongside Monica Vitti or Claudia Cardinale. She then plays in The Fantastic Journey Or One million years BC. Her appearance in a fur bikini is very noticeable and earns her a reputation as a sex symbol, which follows her until the end of her life. She then continues the feature films and gives the reply to Marcello Mastroianni, James Stewart, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, Bill Cosby or Burt Reynolds. She shows a certain predilection for action films and westerns in particular. In 1973 and 1974, she played Constance Bonacieux in The three Musketeers, role for which she won a Golden Globe, And We called her Milady by Richard Lester. In the animal by Claude Zidi, she played opposite Jean-Paul Belmondo in 1977. Her latest film How to Be a Latin Lover dates from 2017.
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The star starred in Lois and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman
Raquel Welch has also made a lot of appearances in television series since her debut. She thus camps Diana Stride in Lois and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman. She also starred in Sabrina, the teenage witch, Seinfeld, Spin City Or Experts: Miami. On the side of her private life, Raquel Welch has been married four times. She is the mother of two children, Damon Welch, born in 1959 and Tahnee Welch, born in 1961.
