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 Academy Award, has died at age 88.
FILE - Academy Award winning actress Louise Fletcher, who played Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," which was filmed at the Oregon State Hospital, was a featured guest at the grand opening on Oct. 6, 2012. Fletcher died Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, at age 88.
"I was the last person cast," she recalled in a 2004 interview. "It wasn't until we were halfway through shooting that I realized the part had been offered to other actresses who didn't want to appear so horrible on the screen." She then addressed her deaf parents in Birmingham, Alabama, talking and using sign language: "I want to thank you for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true."Later that night, Forman made the wry comment to Fletcher and her co-star, Jack Nicholson: "Now we all will make tremendous flops."Forman next directed "Hair," the movie version of the hit Broadway musical that failed to capture the appeal of the stage version.
Fletcher's career was also hampered by her height. At 5-feet-10, she would often be dismissed from an audition immediately because she was taller than her leading man. Fletcher married producer Jerry Bick in the early 1960s and gave birth to two sons in quick succession. She decided to put her career on hold to be a stay-at-home mother and didn't work for 11 years.
The character was so memorable she would become the basis for a Netflix series, "Ratched," 45 years later.
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