LOS ANGELES—Actress Raquel Welch died on Wednesday at age 82.
Her death following a brief illness was confirmed in a statement released by Jane McKnight, her Los Angeles-based manager.
Welch sprang to wide attention with her role in the 1966 sci-fi adventure “Fantastic Voyage,” playing a member of a miniaturized medical team injected into the body of an injured diplomat.
Her success in that film was followed by an appearance later the same year in the prehistoric fantasy drama “One Million Years B.C.”
Other screen credits in the late 1960s and early 1970s included starring roles in “Bedazzled,” “Bandolero!” “100 Rifles,” “Myra Breckinridge,” and “Hannie Caulder.”…