American actress Raquel Welch, star of the 1960s and 1970s widely remembered in Hollywood for her role as a cave naiad in an animal skin bikini in “A Million Years Before Jesus Christ”, died on Wednesday February 15, at the age of 82, announced his manager.

Ms. Welch “passed away peacefully early this morning after a brief illness,” he said in a statement sent to AFP, without further details. During her career, she had appeared in more than thirty films, including The Fantastic Voyage and The Three Musketeers.