Raquel Welch Dies at 82

Raquel WelchLongtime actress and international symbol of sex, Golden Globe PEOPLE confirms that she is the winner. She was 82.

Welch “passed away peacefully early this morning after a brief illness,” PEOPLE received confirmation from Steve Sauer, her manager, on Wednesday.

Sauer said, “Her career spans over 50 years and she starred in more than 30 films and 50 television shows and appearances. In recent years, the Golden Globe winner was also involved in a successful line of hair wigs. Raquel has left behind her son Damon Welch, and her daughter Tahnee Welch.

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Welch was a star in films from the 1960s to 1966. Fantastic Voyage One Million Years B.C. That was also the year.

In dozens of films, she would continue to be a star, including 1973’s. The Three MusketeersShe won a Golden Globe award for best actress in a comedy or musical, with the film “The Good Wife”.

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She also holds other titles. 100 Rifles, Chairman of the Board: The Prince and the Poorer Legally Blonde More. In 2017, she played her final film role. How to Love Latin. She also Memorably performed “I’m a Woman” With Cher On this date in 1975 The Cher Show.

After showing off her curves during 1966’s camp classic, Welch became a pinup One Million Years B.C. The glamour is only half the story. Jo Raquel Tejada was a single mom who, after her divorce from her first husband (in 1964), became a sex bomber and helped raise her children.

The actress, whose novel Beyond the Cleavage PEOPLE previously reported that she became a bestseller as she celebrated her 70th anniversary in 2010. “I never thought life was going to give me something for nothing.”

He was born in Chicago to a Bolivian engineer and his American wife. “By age 7 I knew I wanted to be an actress,” Welch stated at the time.

She continued: “My parents enrolled me in a theater program. You could get away from some of the painfulness of real life. I always had flights of fancy.”

She credited her mother Josephine for her resilience and added that she was proud of her at the time. “I’ve had a great life — and it’s not over yet!”

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