Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch (born September 5, 1940) is an American actress.

Early life

Welch was born Jo Raquel Tejada in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of three children born to Armando Carlos Tejada and Josephine Sarah Hall. Her father was an immigrant from Bolivia of Castilian Spanish extraction who was an aerospace engineer, and her mother an United States native of Irish descent.

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Chicago, Illinois - Immigrant - Bolivia - Castilian - Spanish - Aerospace - Engineer - United States - Irish

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In 1942, Armand Tejada was transferred to San Diego, California. The family moved to the suburb of La Jolla, where Raquel grew up. She took dancing lessons as a child, and was winning beauty pageants by the time she was a teenager. Among her titles were "Miss Photogenic," "Miss La Jolla," "Miss Contour," and "Miss San Diego." In 1957, she was named "Miss Fairest of the Fair" at the San Diego County Fair. After high school she entered San Diego State College on a theater arts scholarship. The following year she married a high school sweetheart, James Welch.

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1942 - San Diego, California - La Jolla - Dancing - 1957 - San Diego County - San Diego State College - Scholarship

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