Biography of Raquel Welch

Jo Raquel Tejada, better known as Raquel Welch, is 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., for which she may be best known.

She later starred in Bedazzled, Bandolero!, 100 Rifles, and Myra Breckinridge She made several television variety specials, and today, Welch is a noticeable face in commercials for Foster Grant sunglasses and reading glasses.