The film pitted Fletcher against Jack Nicholson’s Randle McMurphy, a convict who pretends to be mentally ill to avoid hard labor and reside in a psychiatric hospital. “I was already past the age of ...

Louise Fletcher, the actress who won an Academy Award for playing the villainous Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," died Friday in France, according to her agent David Shaul. She was ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Louise Fletcher, who was famously known for her Oscar-winning performance as Nurse Ratched in 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, has died at the age of 88 in her ...

Hollywood has sadly lost another one of its greats. Louise Fletcher died at her home in Montdurausse, France at the age of 88 on Saturday (September 24). The actress was a rarity in Tinseltown, ...

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 standard for screen villains and won her an ...

In 1975, Birmingham native Louise Fletcher took on her most iconic film role, the one that made her famous. Fletcher, who died in 2022 at age 88, won the best actress Oscar for her portrayal of the ...

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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 standard for screen villains and won her an ...

Louise Fletcher, the actress best known for her role as Nurse Mildred Ratched in Miloš Forman’s film adaptation of Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” has died at the age of 88.