Raquel Welch was a successful American actress known for her immense physical beauty. She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), followed by the film One Million Years B.C. (1966).

Although Raquel Welch had only three lines of dialogue in the film One Million Years B.C., images of her in the doe-skin bikini became bestselling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol.

She posed in a rocky prehistoric landscape, wearing a tattered doeskin bikini, and grabbed the spotlight by the throat with her defiant, alert-to- everything, take-no-prisoners stance and her dancer’s body. She was 26. It had been four years since Marilyn Monroe’s death, and the industry needed a goddess.

Through her portrayal of strong female characters, which helped in her breaking the mold of the traditional sex symbol, Raquel Welch developed a unique film persona that made her an icon of the 1960s and 1970s. Her rise to stardom in the mid-1960s was partly credited with ending Hollywood's vigorous promotion of the blonde bombshell.

She won a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical or Comedy in 1974 for her performance in The Three Musketeers. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Television Film for her performance in the film Right to Die (1987). In 1995, Welch was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History". Playboy ranked Welch No. 3 on their "100 Sexiest Stars of the Twentieth Century" list.

In her late 70’s, Raquel Welch was still followed by photographers, and reporters who were still commenting on her appearance. In 2001, she answered questions about fashion and style in an interview,

“Style has to have substance,” she said. “It has to have fire.” Praising synergy, instinct, imagination, and attitude over trendiness and fashion-magazine dictates, she concluded, “It’s about being yourself on purpose.”

Raquel will never be forgotten and she will always be “In Heaven with the Stars.”