Raquel Welch

Also known as Raquel Tejada, Jo Raquel Welch

American actress (1940–2023)

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Raquel Welch was a female artist from the United States who began her work period in 1964 and ended it in 2017. She was recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. Welch was also an author, with seven works listed in the Open Library, including titles such as *Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage* and *Lose 10 lbs. in 3 weeks*. Her creative output included five works indexed in Crossref.

Born in 1940, Welch had two children. She passed away in 2023. Her writings and public statements included the observation that one must work with people regardless of their character. In high school, she was known as Rocky, and later as Hotrocks. Her music profile on Last.fm recorded 1,955 plays and 677 listeners. She is referenced by 562 other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 7

Top works

Raquel : Beyond the Cleavage
Mukammal yoga biyuti aind helth program
Beyond the cleavage
Lose 10 lbs. in 3 weeks
Raquel: El Programa Completa De Belleza Y Salud De Raquel Welch/Raquel

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: United States
Active from: 1940-09-05
Active to: 2023-02-15

Discography

This Girl’s Back in Town1987

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 677
Total plays: 1,955

Jo Raquel Tejada (born September 5, 1940 - February 15, 2023), better known as Raquel Welch, was an American actress and sex symbol. Welch came to attention as a new star on the 20th Century Fox lot in the mid-1960s. She posed iconically in an animal skin bikini for the British-release One Million Years B.C. (1966), for which she may be best known. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970), and Legally Blonde ( 2001). <a href="https://

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,107x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,790x
The use of fast Fourier transform for the estimation of power spectra: A method based on time averaging over short, modified periodograms
· 1967 · cited 10,168x
PRISMA 2020 explanation and elaboration: updated guidance and exemplars for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 9,063x
The PRISMA 2020 statement: An updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 8,487x

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Quotes

“Whatever my film work was, it was a departure from the sex symbol previously, who was blonde and more docile than the characters I portrayed as a sex symbol…I think it was a different role for women. Women watch other women, and they are affected by that.”
“A lot of times I would play a lot of roles a man would play…In One Million Years B.C.—yes, the costume was revealing. But I was outdoors all the time, I was fighting to survive, there was a girlfight. I was participating, it was physical, and I was independent. I wasn’t that pushover kind of a girl. And I think that left an impression.”
“I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous, and fortunate misunderstanding.”
“I wanted a storybook life, to be Rapunzel and Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, all the beautiful ladies that wonderful men came along on their big white horses and dragged away. Which is not remarkable, a lot of kids grow up that way. But I decided it was gonna happen.”
“In high school I was Rocky, then after the equipment arrived, Hotrocks.”
“You have to work with people, whatever assholes they might be.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Jo Raquel Welch (née Tejada; September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress. Welch first gained 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 a doe-skin bikini became bestselling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970), Hannie Caulder (1971), Kansas City Bomber (1972), The Last of Sheila (1973), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Wild Party (1975), and Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976). She made several television variety specials.

Through her portrayal of strong female characters, helping her break the mold of the traditional sex symbol, Welch developed a unique film persona that made her an icon of the 1960s and 1970s. Her rise to stardom in the mid-1960s was partly credited with ending Hollywood's vigorous promotion of the blonde bombshell. Her love scene with Jim Brown in 100 Rifles also made cinematic history with their portrayal of interracial intimacy. She won a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy in 1974 for her performance as Constance Bonacieux in The Three Musketeers and reprised the role in its sequel the following year. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Television Film for her performance in Right to Die (1987). Her final film was How to Be a Latin Lover (2017). In 1995, Welch was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History". Playboy ranked Welch No. 3 on their "100 Sexiest Stars of the Twentieth Century" list.

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