The angel of death on Netflix: who is Amy Loughren, the nurse who discovered Charles Cullen?

On October 26, Netflix launched one of the most interesting films of 2022, it is ‘The Angel of Death’, a production with actors Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain where we can see the story of a serial killer and a brave nurse who was the key in the arrest of this criminal, is about Amy Loughren.

It is important to remember that ‘The angel of Death’ Netflix shows The Criminal Story of Charles Cullena nurse who for 16 years, from the 1980s to the early 2000s, killed 40 patients in several hospitals in the United States, although according to some experts the victims could actually be more than 400.

In the aforementioned film from the streaming giant we can see how Jessica Chastain plays nurse Amy Loughrena heroic character who ended up risking his life and that of his family to catch this criminal, who in real life recently explained how Cullen became his friend in the same hospital where they both worked.

It was in an interview for People magazine, in which Amy Loughren explained in detail how she began to suspect the character Eddie Redmayne plays in the Netflix movie, as she pointed out that several patients died during this shift. nurse, which led her to investigate the background of which we now know is one of the most famous serial killers in the United States.

For this reason, in the early 2000s, as she also tells in a recent interview for The Times, the nurse agreed to collaborate with the authorities, also bringing a microphone and extorting the confession from Charles Cullen, obtaining detailed information on as he killed patients, a character that many scholars point out would probably have continued to kill had it not been for the intervention of Amy Loughren.

Amy Loughren from “The Angel of Death” today

Without a doubt, the story of this nurse played in ‘The angel of Death’ from netflix of the Oscar winner, is incredible Jessica Chastain, a character who today is an expert in alternative medicine, who in real life has been in contact with the actress and is part of the production of the streaming giant for the interpretation and realization of this tape.

It is worth mentioning that currently ‘The Angel of Death’, in a few days, has become one of the most viewed movies on Netflix, leading the audience in several countries where this platform is present, which is why it is production It si promises to be one of the most viewed in all of 2022.