Overview
Born : July 22, 1934 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Birth Name : Estelle Louise Fletcher
Height : 5' 9½" (1.77 m)
Brought into the world in Birmingham, Alabama, to Episcopal clergyman Robert Fletcher and his significant other Estelle, both of whom were hard of hearing, Louise Fletcher was acquainted with performing at a youthful age by the auntie who encouraged her to talk. In the wake of moving on from the University of North Carolina, she went on an outing out west with her flat mates, winding up in Los Angeles without enough cash to get back. She accepted a brief position as an assistant and pursued acting classes around evening time. Before long she was working routinely in TV and film, yet subsequent to wedding maker Jerry Bick and having two children, the entertainer took an extended rest to bring up her kids.
Getting back to work in 1974 in Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us (1974), Fletcher came to the consideration of chief Milos Forman, who was projecting the troublesome job of the attendant in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). She won the job - - and afterward the Academy Award - - depicting dangerous, unbendable Nurse Ratched, who has since turned into a social symbol. Various film jobs followed, incorporating co-featuring turns with Peter Falk in The Cheap Detective (1978) and with Richard Burton in Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977). Fletcher has showed up in various sci-fi and loathsomeness works of art like Firestarter (1984), Brainstorm (1983), and Flowers in the Attic (1987).
However she procured an Emmy Award assignment for her repetitive job on Picket Fences (1992), Fletcher is maybe most popular to late TV crowds as Kai Winn from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) and as Nora Bloom from the religion exemplary VR.5 (1995).
Learned communication via gestures at an exceptionally youthful age, as both of her folks were hard of hearing. At the point when Fletcher approached the finish of her (verbally expressed) Best Actress Oscar acknowledgment discourse for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), she got done with a novel (implicit) contact in American Sign Language: "For my mom and my dad, I need to say thank you for encouraging me to have a fantasy. You are seeing my little glimpse of heaven. Much obliged to you." (29 March 1976).
Lily Tomlin's job in Robert Altman's Nashville (1975) was initially composed for, and partially by, Fletcher, whose then-spouse had been Altman's maker. Whenever the two men had a spat, Altman decided to project Tomlin all things considered.
Was a main decision to play the mother in Terms of Endearment (1983).
After her separation from maker Jerry Bick in the last part of the 1970s she created a ruckus when she, then, at that point, in her 40s, started dating 21-year-old Morgan Mason, the child of entertainer James Mason.
Her part in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) had been turned somewhere around Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Colleen Dewhurst and Jane Fonda. Bancroft and Dewhurst turned down the job since they thought that it is against women's activist and tremendously misanthropic.
Was refered to for wild driving in 2000 when she banged into a cop close to her Virginia home.
Her Oscar-prevailing upon job as Nurse Ratched in One Flew the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) was positioned #5 in the American Film Institute's Villains list in their 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.
One of the other Best Actress chosen people in 1976 was Ann-Margret, who was designated for her job Tommy (1975). Incidentally, both that film and the one Fletcher was designated for/won, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, included Jack Nicholson.
She was in a few scenes that were subsequently erased from Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984).
The mother of two children with Jerry Bick, John Dashiell Bick and Andrew Wilson Bick, for whom she required a 11-year break from acting to raise.
Was the 77th entertainer to get an Academy Award; she prevailed upon the Best Actress Oscar for One Flew the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) at The 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976) on March 29, 1976.
Brought forth her second kid at age 28, a child Andrew Wilson Bick in December 1962. Kid's dad is her [now ex] spouse, Jerry Bick.
Brought forth her first youngster at age 26, a child John R. Bick in April 1961. Youngster's dad is her [now ex] spouse, Jerry Bick.
Is one of 12 entertainers who won the Best Actress Oscar for a film that likewise won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)). The others are Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night (1934), Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939), Greer Garson for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment (1983), Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Jodie Foster for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Frances McDormand for Nomadland (2020).
Little girl of Robert (1901-1988), brought into the world in the territory of Alabama, and Estelle (née Caldwell) Fletcher (1901-1992), brought into the world in the province of Texas.
Sister of John (1931-2004), Roberta (b. 1938) and Georgiana Fletcher (b. 1939).
List of Louise Fletcher Movies
- The Home (announced)
- Grizzly II: The Concert
- Girlboss (TV Series)
- A Perfect Man
- A Dad for Christmas (TV Movie)
- Fat Rose and Squeaky
- Dancing in Twilight
- Aurora Borealis
- Wonderfalls (TV Series)
- Clipping Adam
- A Time to Remember (TV Movie)
- Finding Home
- Silver Man
- Manna from Heaven
- Touched by a Killer
- After Image
- More Dogs Than Bones
- Very Mean Men
- Big Eden
- A Map of the World
- Time Served (TV Movie)
- The Devil's Arithmetic (TV Movie)
- Cruel Intentions
- Love Kills
- Johnny 316
- Breast Men (TV Movie)
- Heartless (TV Movie)
- Married to a Stranger (TV Movie)
- Sins of the Mind (TV Movie)
- The Girl Gets Moe
- High School High
- 2 Days in the Valley
- Frankenstein and Me
- The Stepford Husbands (TV Movie)
- Edie & Pen
- Mulholland Falls
- Return to Two Moon Junction
- Virtuosity
- Someone Else's Child (TV Movie)
- Tollbooth
- Tryst
- Giorgino
- The Haunting of Seacliff Inn (TV Movie)
- On Deadly Ground
- Nightmare on the 13th Floor (TV Movie)
- In the Heat of the Night (TV Series)
- Blue Steel
- Final Notice (TV Movie)
- Best of the Best
- The Karen Carpenter Story (TV Movie)
- Two Moon Junction
- Flowers in the Attic
- J. Edgar Hoover (TV Movie)
- Nobody's Fool
- The Boy Who Could Fly
- Invaders from Mars
- Second Serve (TV Movie)
- Last Waltz on a Tightrope (TV Movie)
- Islands (TV Movie)
- Once Upon a Time in America
- Firestarter
- Brainstorm
- Strange Invaders
- Talk to Me
- Strange Behavior
- Mama Dracula
- The Lucky Star
- Natural Enemies
- The Magician of Lublin
- The Lady in Red
- Exorcist II: The Heretic
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Russian Roulette
- Thieves Like Us
- Can Ellen Be Saved? (TV Movie)
- Judgment at Nuremberg (TV Series) & Many more….
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