Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#12778
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Raquel Welch represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 60 years in, and Raquel is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Raquel Welch appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Raquel. Belmondo: The Incorrigible is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for documentary, comedy, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Ron Howard, Ken Marino, Robert Luketic and others, Raquel Welch helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Belmondo: The Incorrigible (2022) · Jim Henson Idea Man (2024) as Self (archive footage) · The Last of Sheila (1973) as Alice Wood
Career snapshot
Ranked #12778 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
1964–2024
Career length
60 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Average Nutevio score
6.9
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.2
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Most frequent director
Ron Howard
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Ron Howard
Most common genre
Comedy
3 titles
Average runtime
1h 45m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.2
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2020s
8.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Jim Henson Idea Man, Belmondo: The Incorrigible — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
8.1
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
8.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1960s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Bedazzled, Fantastic Voyage, One Million Years B.C..
Most productive era
1960s
4 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1960s | 1970s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.01 film | — | — | — |
| Action | — | 6.61 film | — | — | — |
| Thriller | — | 7.01 film | — | — | — |
| Comedy | 6.31 film | — | 6.81 film | 6.91 film | — |
| Crime | — | 7.01 film | — | — | — |
| Romance | 6.32 films | 6.61 film | — | — | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1964Roustabout
Where our catalogue meets this career, as College Girl (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2022Belmondo: The Incorrigible
8.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Self (archive footage).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
10 of 10 films
Directed by Unknown
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by Ron Howard
as Cora
Directed by Richard Fleischer
as Alice Wood
Directed by Herbert Ross
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Belmondo: The Incorrigible (2022)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. The role gives Raquel Welch a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Self (archive footage)
Jim Henson Idea Man (2024)
Performance score7.7
Jim Henson Idea Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Self (archive footage) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Cora
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Performance score7.0
Fantastic Voyage asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Cora is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Loana
One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Performance score7.0
One Million Years B.C. asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Loana is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
Start here. Belmondo: The Incorrigible is the clearest statement of what Raquel Welch does — accessible, 96 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Raquel at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
A deliberate change of key after Belmondo: The Incorrigible — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Keeps the adventure register of Fantastic Voyage but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Last of Sheila (1973)
A deliberate change of key after One Million Years B.C. — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Jim Henson Idea Man (2024)
A deliberate change of key after The Last of Sheila — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
John Rich
Director
1 film together
Notably Roustabout
Don Chaffey
Director
1 film together
Notably One Million Years B.C.
Richard Fleischer
Director
1 film together
Notably Fantastic Voyage
Stanley Donen
Director
1 film together
Notably Bedazzled
Herbert Ross
Director
1 film together
Notably The Last of Sheila
Richard Lester
Director
1 film together
Notably The Three Musketeers
Robert Luketic
Director
1 film together
Notably Legally Blonde
Ken Marino
Director
1 film together
Notably How to Be a Latin Lover
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably Jim Henson Idea Man
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jim Henson Idea ManHerbert Ross
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Last of SheilaKen Marino
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How to Be a Latin LoverRobert Luketic
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Legally BlondeRichard Lester
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Three MusketeersRichard Fleischer
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fantastic VoyageStanley Donen
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BedazzledDon Chaffey
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Million Years B.C.John Rich
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RoustaboutSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Roustabout
as College Girl (uncredited)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Raquel Welch has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
60 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
3 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Last of Sheila
as Alice Wood
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Roustabout
as College Girl (uncredited)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Last of Sheila
as Alice Wood
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Three Musketeers
as Constance de Bonancieux
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Bedazzled
as Lilian Lust
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Roustabout
as College Girl (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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