Louise Fletcher
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| Louise Fletcher | |
 Fletcher in 1979 |
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| Born | July 22, 1934 (age 72) Birmingham, Alabama, USA |
| Notable roles | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Kai Winn in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine |
| Academy Awards | |
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| Best Actress 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
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| Golden Globe Awards | |
| Best Actress 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
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Louise Fletcher (born July 22, 1934) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American actress.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Fletcher, the second of four children, was born in Birmingham, Alabama to Estelle Caldwell and Reverend Robert Capers Fletcher, an Episcopalian minister from Arab, Alabama. Both of her parents were deaf and worked with the hearing impaired[1] and her father founded more than 40 churches for the hearing impaired in Alabama.[2] Fletcher and her siblings, Roberta, John, and Georgianna,[2] were all born with regular hearing;[3] she was taught to speak by a hearing aunt, who also introduced her to acting. After attending the University of North Carolina, she traveled to Los Angeles, California, where she found work as a secretary by day and took acting lessons by night.
[edit] Career
Fletcher began appearing in several television productions, including the highest-rated episode of Maverick, but married Jerry Bick and took time off to raise her 2 children; she eventually divorced Bick, who died in 2004. In 1974, she returned to film in Thieves Like Us. Miloš Forman saw her, and cast her (possibly because of her height and bearing) as McMurphy's nemesis Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, for which she won the Oscar for Best Actress. She also appeared in such films as The Cheap Detective, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Firestarter, Brainstorm, Flowers in the Attic, Big Eden, and as Sebastian's aunt in Cruel Intentions.
Fletcher was nominated for an Emmy Award for her recurring role on the television series Picket Fences. She also had a continuing role in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the scheming Bajoran religious leader Kai Winn Adami. Fletcher played the character of Ruth Shorter, a supporting role, in the 2005 film, Aurora Borealis, alongside Joshua Jackson and Donald Sutherland, and appeared in the Fox Faith film The Last Sin Eater.
[edit] Footnotes
[edit] External links
- Louise Fletcher at the Internet Movie Database
- Louise Fletcher article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
- Louise Fletcher Appreciation Page
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Ellen Burstyn for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore |
Academy Award for Best Actress 1975 for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
Succeeded by Faye Dunaway for Network |
| Preceded by Gena Rowlands for A Woman Under the Influence |
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama 1976 for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
Succeeded by Faye Dunaway for Network |
