Raquel Welch, who became an international sex symbol when she donned a deerskin bikini for the 1966 film One Million Years BC, and who went on to build a decades-long screen career while asserting and playfully winking at her dark-haired beauty, has died aged 82.
Welch, a one-time model and beauty queen, entered show business in decorous roles before making an impression in the 1966 science-fiction film Fantastic Voyage, playing a scientist who is shrunk to the size of a microbe and injected inside a dying man. Later that year, she starred as a cave-dwelling woman in One Million Years BC, a low-budget British adventure fantasy.
