Actress Rachel Welch, best known for her roles in “The Fantastic Voyage” and “A Million Years BC”, died on Wednesday.
[Mis à jour le 15 février 2023 à 23h01] American actress Raquel Welch died Wednesday at the age of 82, her manager announced. She passed away “peacefully early this morning after a brief illness”, he explained. The career of the actress began in the 1960s. Chaining the roles of figuration in the cinema, the actress saw her career take off with the science fiction film “The Fantastic Journey” by Richard Fleicher. Named the most beautiful woman in the world for her role in 1966’s ‘One Million Years BC’, Raquel Welch had only a few lines of dialogue in the film, but promotional images of her wearing a bikini two pieces of animal skin have transformed her into a real sex symbol.
Despite her public image, she has long expressed discomfort with the portrayal of her body, saying she “wasn’t raised to be a sex symbol, and it wasn’t in her ‘nature’ to “The fact that I became one is probably the most beautiful, glamorous and happiest misunderstanding,” she added.
Confined to her beauty status in Hollywood, Raquel Welch had chained the films before winning the Golden Globe for best actress in a musical film or a comedy for her performance in “The Three Musketeers” in 1974 and was again nominated in 1987 for the film “Right to Die”. She is also known in particular for her roles in two western classics “Bandolero” and “Les Cent Fusils”. Over a career spanning more than five decades, the actress has appeared in more than 30 films. The American had her star on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame since 1996. On the private side, the actress was married four times, for as many divorces. She leaves behind two children.