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Raquel Welch: Child
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Synopsis: Raquel Welch plays a writer working on a project about children who are genetically predisposed for violence--specifically, homicide. To gather real-life examples, she focuses on finding the daughter of a woman who murdered her own parents. The girl ... happens to have a twin brother who did theRead More
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Welch was born in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of three children born to Armando Carlos Tejada Urquizo and Josephine Sarah Hall. Her father, who immigrated from La Paz, Bolivia, was an aerospace engineer of Spanish-Castilian descent; her mother was an Irish-American.[1]
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Displaying an enthusiasm for performing, young Raquel took ballet and acting lessons, which led to a performance in 1947 at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, with a children’s theater group. After graduating from La Jolla High School in 1958, she continued her studies and took a Drama program at the San Diego State College.
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