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Raquel Welch Biography

originally Raquel Tejada

(1940– )

Related Works

Films
1966 One Million Years BC
1967 Bedazzled

1969 The Magic Christian
1970 Myra Breckinridge
1973 The Three Musketeers
1977 The Prince and the Pauper
2001 Legally Blonde
2005 Forget About It

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Actress, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She entered beauty contests as a teenager, and worked as a model, waitress, and television weather-girl before making her film debut in 1964. Launched as a sex symbol after her scantily clad appearance in One Million Years BC (1966), she was rarely challenged by later roles, though for her role in The Three Musketeers (1973) she received a Best Actress Golden Globe Award. During the 1980s she appeared in a number of television series, and her later feature films include Legally Blonde (2001) and Forget About It (2005). She continues to be regarded as one of the world's great beauties, and her career has included nightclub entertaining, the Broadway musical Woman of the Year (1982), and the publication of a Total Beauty and Fitness Programme (1984).