Louise Fletcher

2022 - 9 - 24

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Oscar-winning Louise Fletcher dead at 88 (Fox News)

The Academy Award-winning Louise Fletcher passed away in her home in Montdurausse, France, surrounded by her family, a representative said.

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Louise Fletcher: Oscar-winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ... (The Guardian)

Fletcher, who won Academy Award for her role of Nurse Ratched in 1975 film, dies, aged 88.

The actor won the Academy Award for best leading actress in 1976 for her portrayal of ruthless nurse Mildred Ratched in Miloš Forman’s adaptation of Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel of the same name. Fletcher divorced Bick in 1977 and is survived by her sons, according to the Associated Press. Her portrayal of the character in the film was so memorable, Netflix made a series called Ratched in 2020, which tells the origin story of the nurse-turned-villain.

Louise Fletcher Dies Aged 88: Tributes Pour In for Oscar-Winning ... (Newsweek)

The One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest actress, whose parents were deaf, was the first person to use sign language during her Oscars acceptance speech in 1976.

Oscar-winning actor Marlee Matlin tweeted: "Sad to read of the passing of Louise Fletcher. She was great." May she rest with the Prophets." Both her parents were deaf and she spoke to them directly from the stage. Fletcher later had a recurring role as Bajoran religious leader Kai Winn in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine from 1993 to 1999. A blazing talent and a compete class act.

Louise Fletcher: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest's Nurse Ratched ... (BBC News)

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.

Veteran Oscar-winning actress Louise Fletcher passes away at 88 ... (Lagatar English)

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.

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' star Louise Fletcher dies aged 88 (NBC News)

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.

Her post-“Cuckoo’s Nest” films included “Mama Dracula,” “Dead Kids” and “The Boy Who Could Fly.” 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. Fletcher signed on for “Exorcist II: The Heretic,” a misconceived sequel to the landmark original. “I was the last person cast,” she recalled in a 2004 interview. Nicholson directed and starred in “Goin’ South,” generally regarded as one of his worst films.

Louise Fletcher obituary (The Guardian)

American actor who won an Oscar for her role as Nurse Ratched in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

“She was convinced that she had her world in order, and that for it to work properly it had to be in that order. Around the same time, Thieves Like Us brought Fletcher to the attention of Forman. [Nashville](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/dec/31/culture.peterbradshaw1) (1975). Even so, Fletcher did not use her voice fully until the age of eight and was once sent home by schoolteachers who were convinced she was deaf. The family moved to London in 1967. In 1960 she married the producer [Jane Fonda](https://www.theguardian.com/film/jane-fonda), [Angela Lansbury](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/angela-lansbury) and [Ellen Burstyn](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/nov/05/guardianinterviewsatbfisouthbank). “She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She was 40 at the time and had only recently returned to acting after a long break. She had enough power that her conviction could have consequences – and that’s where I felt we were in the world at the time, too. As Nurse Ratched, who instils fear into the patients in a mental institution without ever raising her voice, she was calmly terrifying. Even her outdated hairstyle was expressive—“a symbol that life had stopped for her a long time ago,” noted Fletcher.