Louise Fletcher, best-known for starring as the villainous Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, has died at the age of 88.
, Alabama as the second of four children to Deaf parents, her father, a reverend, founded more than 40 churches in the US state for people who are Deaf.Having begun her acting career in the late 1950s, appearing in TV series including Lawman and Maverick, the actress went on to star in the 1974 crime film Thieves Like Us, which helped bag her the role of Ratched in the 1975 adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
The patients at the institution team up against the tyrannical Nurse Mildred Ratched, exerting her power over them by means including her own version of psychotherapy and antipsychotic drugs.Nurse Ratched is widely regarded as one of the greatest fictional villains of all time, having been played by Joan Tetzel on stage and by Sarah Paulson in the 2020 TV series about the character.
She also joked with the audience that ‘it looks like you all hated me so much that you’ve given me this award for it’, before adding: ‘I’ve loved being hated by you.’
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