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title: "Actress Raquel Welch, 1960s sex symbol, dead at age 82 - AFP reports"
description: "Raquel Welch, the film actress whose sultry, curvaceous looks made her a leading sex symbol of the 1960s and 1970s, has died at age 82, the French news agency AFP reported on Wednesday, citing her manager."
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# Actress Raquel Welch, 1960s sex symbol, dead at age 82 - AFP reports

> Raquel Welch, the film actress whose sultry, curvaceous looks made her a leading sex symbol of the 1960s and 1970s, has died at age 82, the French news agency AFP reported on Wednesday, citing her manager.

By Reuters · Published 16 February 2023, 06:00 SAST · Updated 16 February 2023, 10:16 SAST

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Welch came to the wide attention of moviegoers for her role in the 1966 sci-fi adventure Fantastic Voyage, followed by her iconic appearance later that year in the prehistoric drama One Million Years B.C.

Although Welch had just a few lines of dialogue in B.C., images of her memorable appearance in a fur-skinned bikini made her a bestselling pin-up that transformed her into a global sex symbol.

*(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien and Steve Gorman; Editing by Leslie Adler.)*