Hollywood actress Raquel Welch has died at the age of 82.
“She passed away peacefully early this morning after a short illness,” her management company said.
He had two children: son Damon and daughter Tahnee.
Welch won a Golden Globe in 1975 for his role in The Three Musketeers.
He made his first breakthrough in 1966 in the science fiction adventure Fantastic Voyage and prehistoric drama One Million Years BC.
Despite having only a few lines of dialogue, his appearance in the latter was one of his best-known roles.
Her only swimsuit was a deerskin bikini.
Welch at the premiere of Flight of the Phoenix in London in 1966. Photo: AP
A two-piece anchor advertisement of hers became a successful poster.
In 2011, Time magazine listed it at number six in the “Top 10 Bikinis in Pop Culture”.
In addition to her acting career, Welch was seen as a sex symbol, with Playboy magazine calling her the “most wanted woman” of the 1970s.
Other film credits in the late 1960s and early 1970s included lead roles in Bedazzled, Bandolero!, 100
Rifles, Myra Breckinridge and Hannie Caulder.
There have also been many television appearances, from 1964 to 2017, and in the early 1980s she was on Broadway, playing on the New York stage in Woman of the Year, opposite Lauren Bacall.
Raquel Welch at a pre-Grammy party in Beverly Hills in 2008
Her management company, Media Four, said in a statement: “Raquel Welch, the legendary bombshell of film, television and stage, passed away peacefully early this morning after a short illness.
“His career spanned over 50 years, starring in over 30 films and 50 television series and guest appearances.
“The Golden Globe winner has, in more recent years, been involved in a very successful line of wigs.
“Raquel is survived by her two children, son Damon Welch and daughter, Tahnee Welch.”
