- Born
- Birth nameLatanne Rene Welch
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Tahnee Welch was born in 1961 in San Diego, California, daughter of father James Welch and mother Raquel Tejada (actress Raquel Welch), and the younger sister of Damon Welch. Most of her childhood was spent between Spain, England and Italy, returning to an all-girls school in the United States.
At 16 she dropped out of school and left home. After a couple of years of odd jobs, she moved to New York and studied acting. In the 1980s she began her acting career in Italy, where she was cast in the lead role in Amarsi un po'... (1984), opposite one of Italy's most famed icons, the beautiful Virna Lisi, and newcomer Claudio Amendola. It became a favorite of the Italian public and is aired regularly on Italian television. Shortly after returning to New York she was cast in Ron Howard's summer blockbuster Cocoon (1985), with veteran actors Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn and Maureen Stapleton. Despite the blockbuster success of "Cocoon", she continued her career in Italy and Germany for several years, enjoying great success starring in the mini-series Disperatamente Giulia (1989), directed by legendary theater actor/director Enrico Maria Salerno and co-starring one of Italy's most celebrated film stars, Fabio Testi, and Laura Antonelli.
Tahnee has appeared in the American indie pictures Search and Destroy (1995), based on Howard Korder's play; I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), directed by Mary Harron; and Sue (1997), directed by Amos Kollek.
- IMDb mini biography by: John Dehority (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous
- ParentsJames Westley Welch
- RelativesDamon Welch(Sibling)
- Abruptly stopped doing interviews for the film Cocoon (1985) because she was tired of answering rude questions about her mother [1985].
- Left home at age 16.
- Tahnee struggled with outsiders employed by her mother that interfered with their familial relationship.Tahnee and Damon had nannies to help their mother while Raquel worked on film sets. Raquel admitted how her kids would not give her an 'A' as a parent. Their relationship was also written in Raquel's autobiography "Beyond the Cleavage".
- [January 20, 1988] Was attacked and mugged outside her Manhattan East Side apartment as she was returning from late-night grocery shopping around 12:40 am EST. Two men knocked her to the ground, kicked her in the head, and snatched her purse. Only one of the men, a 17-year-old named Elvin May of Brooklyn, was caught minutes later by witnesses and charged with two counts of robbery. Welch was taken to New York's Beth Israel Hospital where she was treated for lacerations above her right eye that required several stitches, a bruised left eye, scrapes to her face and hand, and back pains.
- Appeared in Playboy Magazine
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