Raquel Welch, an iconic actress whose image adorned posters in bedrooms around the world partly because of her bikini-clad role in One Million Years BC, but enjoyed a career that was so much more than one acting job, has died. She was 82.###Jo Raquel Tejada was born in Chicago in 1940. The family moved to San Diego, where she took ballet and acting lessons, and as a teen she won beauty contests. Welch also did some professional modeling.###She made her screen debut as one of the call girls in Russel Rouse’s film A House Is Not a Home in 1964, and in the same year made an uncredited appearance in the Elvis Presley movie Roustwith regards to’concerning’with respect to .###One of her earliest and best known roles was in 1966 sci-fi expedition Fantastic Voyage, in which she played one of a team of scientists miniaturized and injected into another scientist's body to eliminate’remove a blood clot. That same year saw One Million Years BC turn her into a sex symbol.###Yet she enjoyed so much other success – Welch went on to appear in the controversial adaptation of Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge, Kansas City Bomber and two films in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Richard Lester: The Three Musketeers, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding which she won a Golden Globe, and The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge. She was one of the first women to play the lead role, not the romantic interest, in a Western, 1971 revenge tale Hannie Caulder. She also appeared in neo noir mystery The Last Of Shiela, which Rian Johnson as cited as part inspiration in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Glass Onion.###Welch's cinematic CV also included the likes of Fathom, Legally Blonde, Bluebeard, Fuzz and Bedazzled.###In TV, she was seen in reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue s including Spin City, Seinfeld, American Family, CPW and TV movie Right To Die, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination.###Outside of her screen work, Welch also appeared on stage and was a successful businesswoman, launching Raquel’s Total Beauty and Fitness Program in the mid-1980s and more recently developing a line of wigs and hair extensions, as well as skin care products.