American actress Raquel Welch died on Wednesday at the age of 82 following a brief illness, her manager announced.
Raquel Welch, Hollywood fantasy of the 60s and 70s, consecrated as the most beautiful woman in the world for her role as a cave naiad in an animal skin bikini in “A million years before Jesus Christ”however, will never have had major roles.
After beauty contests and a few television productions, the cinema had opened its arms to her, from 1964. She played in regarding forty films, including The Fantastic Journey, Bandit et the three Musketeers.
From her real name, Jo Raquel Tejada, she had kept the name of her first husband.
