Raquel Welch, the movie actress whose sultry, curvaceous seems made her a number one intercourse image of the Sixties and ’70s, has died at age 82, information media shops reported on Wednesday.
Her demise was initially reported by TMZ.com, citing unnamed members of the family, and later by Hollywood commerce publication Selection and the French information company AFP, which cited her supervisor.
Welch got here to the huge consideration of moviegoers for her position within the 1966 sci-fi journey Unbelievable Voyage, adopted by her iconic look later that 12 months within the prehistoric drama One Million Years B.C.
Though Welch had just some strains of dialogue in B.C., memorable photographs of her look in a deer-skinned bikini made her a bestselling pinup that reworked her into a world intercourse image.
Different display credit within the late Sixties and early ’70s embrace starring roles in Bedazzled, Bandolero!, 100 Rifles, Myra Breckinridge and Hannie Caulder.
The brunette star’s portrayal of sturdy feminine characters was credited with reshaping the stereotype of the conventional intercourse image, and her rise to fame was additionally seen as eclipsing Hollywood’s embrace of the blonde bombshell.