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Louise Fletcher
Age: 75
Height: 5' 9 1/2"
Birth Place: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Born: Jul. 22nd, 1934
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BIOGRAPHY: Born in Birmingham, Alabama, to Episcopal minister Robert Fletcher and his wife Estelle, both of whom were deaf, Louise Fletcher was introduced to performing at a young age by the aunt who taught her to speak. After graduating from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, she took a trip out west with her roommates, finding herself in Los Angeles without enough money to return home. She took a temporary job as a receptionist and signed up for acting classes at night. Soon she was working regularly in television and film, but after marrying producer Jerry Bick and having two sons, the actress took a long hiatus to raise her children.
Returning to work in 1974 in Robert Altman (I)'s Thieves Like Us (1974), Fletcher came to the attention of director Milos Forman, who was casting the difficult role of the nurse in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). She won the role -- and then the Academy Award -- portraying deadly, inflexible Nurse Ratched, who has since become a cultural icon. Numerous film roles followed, including co-starring turns with Peter Falk (I) in The Cheap Detective (1978) and with Richard Burton (I) in Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977). Fletcher has appeared in a number of science fiction and horror classics such as Firestarter (1984), Brainstorm (1983), and Flowers in the Attic (1987).
Though she earned an Emmy Award nomination for her recurring role on "Picket Fences" (1992), Fletcher is perhaps best known to recent television audiences as Kai Winn from "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993) and as Nora Bloom from the cult classic "VR.5" (1995).
TRIVIA:
- Was cited for reckless driving in 2000 when she slammed into a police car near her Virginia home.
- Was a leading choice to play the mother in _Terms of Endearment (1983)_ (qv).
- Learned sign language at a very young age, as both of her parents were deaf.
- Her role in _One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)_ (qv) had been turned down by 'Anne Bancroft (I)' (qv), 'Ellen Burstyn' (qv), 'Colleen Dewhurst' (qv) and 'Jane Fonda' (qv). Bancroft and Dewhurst turned down the role because they found it anti-feminist and downright misogynistic.
- Her Oscar-winning role as Nurse Ratched in _One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)_ (qv) was ranked #5 in the American Film Institute's Villains list in their 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.
- After her divorce from producer 'Jerry Bick' (qv) in the late 1970s she caused a stir when she, then in her 40s, began dating 21-year-old 'Morgan Mason' (qv), the son of actor 'James Mason (I)' (qv).
- She was in several scenes that were later deleted from 'Sergio Leone (I)' (qv)'s _Once Upon a Time in America (1984)_ (qv).
- One of the other Best Actress nominees in 1976 was 'Ann-Margret' (qv), who was nominated for her role _Tommy (1975)_ (qv). Coincidentally, both films featured 'Jack Nicholson' (qv).
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