Louise Fletcher

Louise Fletcher, one of cinema's iconic villains, has died at the age of 88.

[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine), Joan of Arcadia and the US adaptation of [Shameless](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shameless_(American_TV_series)), opposite [William H Macy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Macy). [Flowers In The Attic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_in_the_Attic) in 1987. [Exorcist II: The Heretic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcist_II:_The_Heretic), while in the 80s she could be seen in the [Stephen King](https://stephenking.com/) adaptation of Firestarts, alongside Drew Barrymore. [Academy Award for Best Actress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actress) at the 1976 Academy Awards, alongside earning a [BAFTA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Academy_Film_Awards) and [Golden Globe](https://www.goldenglobes.com/) for the role in the same year. [Nurse Mildred Ratched](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_Ratched) in Stanley Kubrick’s film One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest - an adaptation of the [Ken Kasey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey) novel of the same name. [Louise Fletcher](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001221/), the Academy award winning actress in Stanley Kubrick’s classic [One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo%27s_Nest_(film)), has died at the age of 88.

Leading actresses including Angela Lansbury and Ellen Burstyn had all turned down the part. Set and filmed in a psychiatric hospital in Oregon in the US, One ...

Fletcher was a relative unknown when picked to play Nurse Ratched in 1975's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. She is survived by two sons, John and Andrew. Fletcher won an Oscar in 1976 for her role, part of a rare clean sweep that saw the film also bag Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Screenplay.

Lagatar24 Desk. New Delhi, Sept 24: Veteran Hollywood actress Louise Fletcher passed away at the age of 88. The Oscar-winning actress passed away at her ...

She spoke in sign language during her acceptance speech for the Academy Award, making it one of Oscar’s most enduring moments. She started her acting career in the late 1950s with TV shows like 77 Sunset Strip, Lawman, Bat Masterson, Maverick, and The Untouchables. Over the course of her acting career, Louise appeared in various television shows and motion pictures.

Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' set a new ...

The new baby island emerged in the southwest Pacific Ocean, where underwater volcanoes are plentiful. [Health](https://www.ctvnews.ca/health) [COVID raises risk of long-term brain injury, large U.S. Officials in Port aux Basques, N.L., say homes were washed into the sea. Friday night as people in Atlantic Canada began feeling the wrath of Fiona. It was those latter studies that convinced Fletcher she wanted to act. Estelle Louise Fletcher was born the second of four children on July 22, 1934, in Birmingham. "I felt compelled to stay at home." She decided to put her career on hold to be a stay-at-home mother and didn't work for 11 years. She played the mother of musical duo Carpenters in 1989's "The Karen Carpenter Story." Nicholson directed and starred in "Goin' South," generally regarded as one of his worst films. "I was the last person cast," she recalled in a 2004 interview. At the time, she didn't know that many other prominent stars, including Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn and Angela Lansbury, had turned it down.