Welch starred in 30 films and 50 television series across five decades

 
Renowned actor and international sex symbol Raquel Welch has died at the age of 82.

According to reports, Welch had been suffering from a “brief illness”.

The actor became an icon after appearing in a deerskin bikini in the 1966 British film: One Million Years BC.

The movie received mediocre reviews, but Welch’s cavewoman image on the poster is part of cinema history.

Welch is a Golden Globe winner, starring in more than 30 films and some 50 television series in a career spanning five decades.

Born to a Bolivian father and an American mother, in 2002, she told the New York Times she was proud to acknowledge her Latino roots. #trending #featured