Los Angeles (USA) (EFE).- The American actress Raquel Welch, remembered for films like “One Million Years BC” and for being a sexual icon of the sixties, died this Wednesday at the age of 82 after an illness.
Welch’s family confirmed the death to the celebrity portal TMZ and assured that the death occurred after the actress suffered “a brief illness” of which no further details were given.
The daughter of a Bolivian engineer who moved to the United States, Raquel Welch was born in Chicago in 1940.
His path in the entertainment industry began with Elvis Presley with a small role in “Roustabout” (1964) and later he would obtain more weighty work in films such as “Fantastic Voyage” (1966).
His career took off with the prehistoric adventure “One Million Years BC” (1966). The image of Welch and her iconic bikini cemented her status as a “sex-symbol” in a tape whose promotional poster went down in movie history.
Her beauty and erotic potential were taken advantage of by the industry, which created for her one of the most macho nicknames in Hollywood: “The Body.”
The actress was also part of titles such as “Lady in Cement” (1968), along with Frank Sinatra and some of her most remembered tapes are the western “Hannie Caulder” (1971) and “Fathom” (1967).
