Louise Fletcher

Movie Actress

Louise Fletcher was born in Birmingham, Alabama, United States on July 22nd, 1934 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 88, Louise Fletcher biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
July 22, 1934
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Death Date
Sep 23, 2022 (age 88)
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Networth
$1 Million
Profession
Actor, Film Actor, Television Actor
Louise Fletcher Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

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Louise Fletcher Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Jerry Bick, ​ ​(m. 1960; div. 1978)​
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2
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Louise Fletcher Career

Career

Fletcher appeared in several television shows, including Lawman (1958) and Maverick (1959). (The series's highest-rated episode, "The Saga of Waco Williams," with James Garner, was the series's highest-rated episode). Elouise appeared in an episode of the original Untouchables TV series starring Robert Stack, "Ma Barker and Her Boys" in 1959. Fletcher recalled being able to be more popular in Westerns due to her height:

In 1960, Fletcher appeared in "The Case of the Mythical Monkeys" as defendant Gladys Doyle and as Susan Connolly in "The Case of the Larcenous Lady." In the summer of 1960, she was starring David McLean as Roberta McConnell in Tate's episode "The Bounty Hunter."

Fletcher returned to film in 1974 in the crime drama Thieves Like Us, co-produced by her husband Jerry Bick and Robert Altman, who also produced. After falling out on Altman's next project (Nashville (1975), the two actors decided to cast Lily Tomlin for the role of Linnea Reese, originally intended for and by Fletcher. In the meantime, director Milo Forman saw Fletcher in Thieves and cast her as McMurphy's nemesis Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). In her native Alabama, she based her character on the paternalistic way white people were treated by white people. Fletcher received international recognition and acclaim for his work, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress and BAFTA Award, as well as a Golden Globe and BAFTA Award. After Audrey Hepburn and Liza Minnelli, she was the third actress to receive an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and the Golden Globe Award for a single performance. When Fletcher accepted her Oscar, she used sign language to express appreciation to her parents.

Fletcher had mixed success in film after Cuckoo's Nest. She made several commercially and critically acclaimed films, while others were box-office failures. Fletcher's film appearances included Exorcist II: The Heretic (1978), The Lady in Red (1982), Firestarter (1989), Two Moon Junction (1990), High School High (1999), and Cruel Intentions (1999), as the aunt of Ryan Phillippe's Sebastian. (1979), The Grand Theatre (1984), The Magician of Lublin (1989). In addition, she appeared in the Fox Faith film The Last Sin Eater (2007), as Ruth Shorter, a supporting role, in Aurora Borealis (2005).

Fletcher appeared in TV movies such as The Karen Carpenter Story (1989) (as Karen and Richard Carpenter's mother, Agnes) and The Stepford Husbands (1996). Kai Winn Adami, a scheming Bajoran religious leader, appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine from 1993 to 1999. She has also received Emmy Awards for her guest appearances on Picket Fences (1996) and then on Joan of Arcadia (2004). Fletcher appeared in Heroes as the physician mother of character Emma Coolidge in 2009. Grammy Gallagher's foul-mouthed and hard-living mother, who is serving a prison term for a methamphetamine-related explosion, appeared on four episodes of Shameless in 2011 and 2012. On the series Girlboss (2017), she portrayed Rosie, a recurring role.

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Louise Fletcher of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest passes away at age 88

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 24, 2022
Louise Fletcher, the Oscar winner, died at the age of 88. According to Deadline, Fletcher died peacefully at her Montdurausse, France, but did not reveal the cause of death. In the Milo Forman-directed 1975 film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, she played Nurse Ratched, which also starred Jack Nicholson.