Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
9/5/1940
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
ラクエル・ウェルチJo Raquel WelchJo Raquel Tejada
Raquel Welch
Biography
Jo Raquel Welch (née Tejada; September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress.
Welch first garnered attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she signed a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although Welch had only three lines of dialogue in the film, images of her in the doe-skin bikini became bestselling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (196...
Known For
Electric Blue 005
as Self (archive footage)
Fantastic Voyage
as Cora
Tortilla Soup
as Hortensia
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
as Raquel Welch (uncredited)
Roustabout
as College Girl (uncredited)
Legally Blonde
as Mrs. Windham Vandermark
Myra Breckinridge
as Myra Breckinridge
The Queens
as Elena ("Fata Elena")
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
as Juliana
Bluebeard
as Magdalena
Bedazzled
as Lilian Lust
Fuzz
as Det. Eileen McHenry
The Three Musketeers
as Constance de Bonancieux
100 Rifles
as Sarita
One Million Years B.C.
as Loana
Animal
as Jane Gardner
Tainted Blood
as Elizabeth Hayes
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage)
The Prince and the Pauper
as Lady Edith
A House Is Not a Home
as Call Girl