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Raquel Welch is an American actress, also known by her birth name Jo Raquel Tejada. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States on September 5, 1940. Her mother is Josephine Sarah Hall, who died in 2000, and her father is Armando Carlos Tejada Urquizo, an aeronautical engineer, who died in 1976. She has a younger sister Gayle Carole Tejada and a younger brother James Tejada. She graduated from La Jolla High School in San Diego, California. Raquel died in Los Angeles, California, United States on February 15, 2023.

Best Known

Raquel gained fame for Loana’s role in the movie One Million Years B.C. in 1966, and she is also famous for Mrs. Windham-Vandermark’s role in the movie Legally Blonde in 2001. She began her acting career with the Billboard Girl role in the television series The Hollywood Palace in 1994, and she played the Call Girl role in her debut film A House Is Not a Home in 1964. Welch portrayed Nini’s role in the film The Oldest Profession in 1967, and she worked as the spokesperson for Foster Grant glasses. She also starred as Sarita in the movie 100 Rifles in 1969.

Relationship/Husband

Welch got married to her high school sweetheart James Welch on May 8, 1959. She gave birth to their first child a son Damon Welch (Actor) on November 6, 1959, and they welcomed their second child a daughter Tahnee Welch (model) on December 26, 1961. The couple separated in 1962 and they divorced in 1964. Then, she started dating film producer Patrick Curtis in 1964, and the duo tied the knot on February 14, 1967. But, the couple divorced in 1972.

Raquel did her third marriage to film producer André Weinfeld on July 5, 1980, and they divorced in 1990. Later, she got married to actor Richard Palmer on July 17, 1999, and the couple got divorced in 2008. She also dated dancer Nigel Lythgoe from 2010 to 2015.