Academy Award-winning actress Louise Fletcher has passed away at age 88.
Louise Fletcher, the Alabama-born actress best known for her role as the cruel, authoritarian Nurse Ratched in the 1975 filmat her home in Southern France at the age of 88. She was relatively unknown at the age of 40 when she secured the part, which won her an Academy Award for Best Actress.
She continued to work in film and television up through the early 2010s, with a recurring role onShe was born Estelle Louise Fletcher, one of four children of deaf parents who worked in churches for the hard-of-hearing. After studying drama at the University of North Carolina, Fletcher moved to Los Angeles and found work on television westerns in the late 1950s and early 1960s. She appeared on
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