Actress Raquel Welch handed away on February 15, 2023, on the age of 82 following a short, beforehand unreported sickness. Earlier than turning into a Hollywood legend, Raquel was a educated ballerina, magnificence queen, and ultimately, an actress. Her breakthrough got here within the Sixties with roles in Unbelievable Voyage (1966) and One Million Years B.C. (1966). It was the latter, the place she famously wore a doe-skin bikini, that turned her into a global intercourse image. In a earlier interview with the Los Angeles Instances, Raquel revealed her attraction to the function was as a result of her character exuded power. “I appreciated that there was one thing very superhero about her. At the very least I wasn’t a kind of mincing little ladies; I by no means wished to be that,” she stated.
By the point she grew to become a worldwide sensation, Raquel was already a mom. She had two youngsters along with her first husband, James Welch, whom she married shortly after highschool. Learn on to be taught extra about her youngsters, born in 1959 and 1961.
Damon Welch
The oldest little one of James and Raquel is their son Damon Welch, who was born on Nov. 6, 1959. Damon adopted his Golden Globe Award-winning mom‘s footsteps into the trade, however just for a short time. He has only one appearing credit score below his IMDb web page for The Beloved, through which he performed a little bit boy when he was two years outdated. He additionally served as a manufacturing assistant in 1979’s The Day the Earth Received Stoned and a manufacturing affiliate in his mom’s Raquel: Whole Magnificence and Health, which debuted in 1984. He contributed to 2 productions as himself as nicely.
Damon lives an especially non-public life and doesn’t have any identified public social media profiles. He was as soon as married to the daughter of an English cricket participant, Rebecca Trueman.
Tahnee Welch
Tahnee Welch, James and Raquel’s second little one, was born on Dec. 29, 1961. She lives a really non-public life like her brother however has finished far more within the appearing house. She has 21 appearing credit listed on her IMDb web page, the final of which occurred in 1999. She was an uncredited actor in The Beloved like her older brother and received again on the display with a starring function within the Italian romcom, Amarsi un po’… Different movies she is thought for embrace 1985’s Cocoon and its sequel, Cocoon: The Return, 1987’s Sleeping Magnificence, and 1996’s I Shot Andy Warhol.