Louise Fletcher, the Oscar-winning actress whose portrayal of the sadistic Nurse Ratched in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' remains one of cinema's greatest villains, has died at age 88
Louise Fletcher, the
veteran actress who earned a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of the cruel, sadistic psych ward administrator Nurse Mildred Ratched in Milos Forman’s, died Friday at the age of 88. Fletcher’s agent, David Shaul, confirmed her death toFletcher began her career on TV in the late 1950s, appearing in popular shows.
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 being a romantic lead,” she toldin 2016. “Pretty soon I’d be too old to play young and too young to play old.
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