NEW YORK – Hollywood actress Raquel Welch has died at the age of 82, Sky News reported.
The US star “passed away peacefully early this morning after a brief illness”, her management company said.
Her career spanned more than 50 years and included 30 films and scores of TV series and appearances.
Welch won a best actress Golden Globe in 1975 for her role in The Three Musketeers.
She made her initial breakthrough in 1966 in the sci-fi adventure Fantastic Voyage and prehistoric drama One Million Years BC.
There were also lots of TV appearances, from 1964 to 2017, and in the early 1980s she was on Broadway, starring on the New York stage in Woman of the Year alongside Lauren Bacall.
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