Raquel Welch Biography

Fast Facts

• Won multiple beauty-pageant titles in her teens, including Miss La Jolla and Miss San Diego
• Briefly worked as a weather forecaster at a San Diego TV station
• Had a minor role in the 1964 Elvis Presley film Roustabout
• Auditioned for the role of Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island, and was originally slated to play the part, until the show's creator, Sherwood Schwartz, met Dawn Wells
• Breakout film role was as a bikini-clad cavewoman in the 1966 prehistoric fantasy One Million Years B
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• Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1996
• Released a memoir, Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage, in 2010