Louise Fletcher, the actress who won an Academy Award for playing villainous Nurse Ratched in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' died Friday in France, according to her agent. She was 88.
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 88. Shaul said Fletcher died of “natural causes,” without providing further details. She was surrounded by family at her home in Montdurausse.
In her Oscar speech, Fletcher sweetly thanked her “Cuckoo’s Nest” colleagues and then, using sign language, acknowledged her deaf parents watching at home. “I want to say thank you for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true,” she told them. The film swept the top five Oscars for 1975 – for Best Picture, director Milos Forman, adapted screenplay, actor Nicholson and actress Fletcher. Her role became regarded as one of film history’s greatest villains, No.
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