Actress Raquel Welch, who helped reshape the traditional image of the Hollywood sex symbol in an era when the movie industry was still overtly defining an idealized version of sensuality for mass consumption, died on Wednesday at age 82.
She won a Golden Globe Award for best actress in a musical or comedy for her performance in the 1973 swashbuckling romp "The Three Musketeers."
"She came to represent a certain kind of sensuality for this culture that Aphrodite did for classical culture," Thompson said, adding that Welch had also been "an accomplished actor ... who helped to define the kinds of roles that women could play in a society that had some highly compromised ideas about gender."Actress Raquel Welch poses at the 2014 Carousel of Hope Ball at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California October 11, 2014.
She played a tough frontier wife out for revenge in "Hannie Caulder," a Native American revolutionary with a vendetta in "100 Rifles" and a dressmaker to the queen in "The Three Musketeers." She was born Jo Raquel Tejada in Chicago. Her father was an aeronautical engineer from Bolivia. Her family moved to California when she was young. She later studied ballet before entering a series of beauty contests.
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