Louise Fletcher, the Ratched nurse from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, died at 88

Luisa Fletcher, the actress who played the iconic Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, died at the age of 88. Her agent David Shaul confirmed the sad news on Friday, September 23, 2022. The actress died surrounded by her family in her country house in the French town of Montdurausse. The cause of her death has not been revealed.

Fletcher was born in Birmingham, Alabama on July 22, 1934. He studied theater at the University of North Carolina after early deciding he wanted to pursue acting and She began her professional career as an actress in the 1950s, embracing a prolific six-decade career in film and television..

At first, Fletcher participated in mythical American television series such as “The Untouchables”, “The Millionaire” or “Perry Mason”. In the 1960s, the actress took a long hiatus to raise her two children, and her return in the 1970s was when her career took off in film, before her with Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us. , which caught the attention of Milos Forman, who chose her for the role that would make her go down in cinema history: Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”.

For his unforgettable portrayal of the chilling villain in the 1975 film, Fletcher won Best Actress Oscar, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe Awards.. But in his long career, active until 2017, the interpreter has participated in more than 130 films and series, including ‘The Exorcist 2: The Heretic’, ‘Flowers in the Attic’, ‘Blue Steel’, ‘The Hollywood Game ‘,’ Virtuosity ‘,’ Cruel Intentions’ and more recently ‘Heroes’,’ No Appointment ‘and’ Shameless (US) ‘and his latest work, the Netflix series’ Girlboss’.

historical discourse

Louise Fletcher made history at the Oscars by giving part of her speech in sign language to thank her parents, Robert and Estelle, both of whom are deaf.. The actress delivered one of the most memorable and acclaimed speeches of the Academy Awards, adapting humor and emotion in just one minute, to conclude her speech with the moving tribute to her parents: “I want to thank you for teaching me to have a dream. You are watching my dream come true.”.

On the occasion of the 2021 Oscars, where one of the main candidates was ‘Sound of Metal’, which revolves around a man who begins to lose his hearing, Fletcher gave an interview to The Wrap where he talked about the speech he left the sign on Hollywood 45 years ago and still remembering: “I didn’t think I would get a chance to go on stage, but I wanted to do it right if I won. It was actually very simple. I wanted my parents to know that they gave me the kind of love that every child should have.. The luckiest day of my life was when I was born with them as parents “..