Celebrity Biographies
louise fletcher
Rose to fame as tyrannical nurse Mildred Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” a role for which she won the Best Supporting Academy Oscar. Louise Fletcher died on September 23, 2022, at the age of 88, at her residence in Montdurausse, France.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, on July 22, 1934, Estelle Louise Fletcher was what is known in the United States as CODA (Children of Deaf Adult), the daughter of deaf parents. She learned to speak from her aunt, who instilled in her a love of acting. After attending the University of North Carolina at its Chapel Hill campus, she moved to Los Angeles, California, where she worked as a secretary by day and took acting classes at night.
He began his journey in the 50s, with small roles in series like Maverick. In 1960, Louise Fletcher married Jerry Blick, and three years later she retired from acting to raise their two children. They divorced in 1978.
In 1973 she returned to acting, and after Thieves Like Us and Russian Roulette , Louise Fletcher gave life to her most famous character, Nurse Ratched, in the aforementioned One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest . Despite receiving the Oscar, she barely gets any later important roles. She stars in titles like The Exorcist II: The Heretic , Project Brainstorm , and Once Upon a Time in America , though she mostly shone as a grandmother in Flowers in the Attic .
In the 1990s and early 2000s, the actress returned to some notoriety for her television roles in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Picket Fences , and Joan of Arcadia .