| Birth Name | Jo Raquel Tejada |
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| Birth | Born on 1940-09-05 at Chicago, Illinois United States |
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| Height | 5' 6'' |
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| Sex | F |
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| Nationality | American |
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| Profession | Actress |
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| Education | High School: La Jolla High School, La Jolla, CA
University: San Diego State College |
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| Married To | Richard Palmer (married on July 17, 1999), Andre Weinfeld (actor, director, cinematographer; 1980 - 1990; divorced), Patrick Curtis (producer; 1967 - 1972; divorced), James Welch (1959 - 1964; divorced) |
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| Relationships | Robert Eavns (producer, dated 1976) |
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| Father | (aerospace engineer, Bolivian) |
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| Mother | (Mayflower descendant) |
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| Sons | Damon Welch (father: James Welch) |
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| Daughters | Tahnee Welch (father: James Welch; actress) |
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| Claim To Fame | As Loana in One Million Years B.C. (1966) |
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 More a sex goddess than an actress, the statuesque Raquel Welch was one of the most popular celebrities of the 1960s and 1970s. While she appeared in dozens of films, they earned little notice, her success depending almost exclusively on her stature as a buxom pin-up. Born Raquel Tejada on September 5, 1940, in Chicago, she began taking dancing lessons as a child and by her teens was already winni ..
Raquel Welch's Biography |
| Quote: "The mind is an erogenous zone." More Quotes | | Trivia: One of the bombshells shown in The Shawshank Redemption (1994). (The other two were Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe.) More Trivia | Awards: Golden Globe
For: The Three Musketeers
Year: 1975
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