(The Jo in her name was from her mother, Josephine). Welch was born Jo-Raquel Tejada in Chicago and raised in La Jolla, California. “They’ll say, ‘Raquel Welch wants to direct? Give me a break.”’ “I’m not Penny Marshall or Barbra Streisand,” she told the AP in 1993. She knew that some people didn’t take her seriously because of her glamorous image.
She returned to the Great White Way in 1997 in “Victor/Victoria.” She surprised many critics - and won positive reviews - when she starred in the 1981 musical “Woman of the Year” on Broadway, replacing a vacationing Lauren Bacall.
In addition to acting, Welch was a singer and dancer. In the film “The Shawshank Redemption,” a poster of Welch covers an escape tunnel - the last of three that character Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) used after Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe.Īdmirers took to Twitter to mourn the star, including TV host Rosie O’Donnell, actor Chris Meloni and writer-director Paul Feig, who worked with Welch on “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and called her “Kind, funny and a true superstar whom I was pretty much in love with for most of my childhood. 2 spot on Men’s Health’s “Hottest Women of All Time” list. Her curves and beauty captured pop culture attention, with Playboy crowning her the “most desired woman” of the ’70s, despite never being completely naked in the magazine. She did not, playing Lust for the comedy team of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in their film “Bedazzled” in 1967 and playing a secret agent in the sexy spy spoof “Fathom” that same year. It turned out that I was the Bo Derek of the season, the lady in the loin cloth about whom everyone said, ‘My God, what a bod’ and they expected to disappear overnight.” “I just thought it was a goofy dinosaur epic we’d be able to sweep under the carpet one day,” she told The Associated Press in 1981. Clad in a brown doeskin bikini, she successfully evaded pterodactyls but not the notice of the public. Welch’s breakthrough came in 1966’s campy prehistoric flick “One Million Years B.C.,” despite having a grand total of three lines. Welch died early Wednesday after a brief illness, according to her agent, Stephen LaManna of the talent agency Innovative Artists. Raquel Welch, whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film “One Million Years B.C.” would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and ’70s, has died.
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