Louise Fletcher, Best Known For Her Oscar-Winning Performance In ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ Dies at Age 88

Louise Fletcher, the Alabama-born actress best known for her role as the cruel, authoritarian Nurse Ratched in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, died on Friday at her home in Southern France at the age of 88. She was relatively unknown at the age of 40 when she secured the part, which won her an Academy Award for Best Actress. She continued to work in film and television up through the early 2010s, with a recurring role on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and earning an Emmy nomination for Picket Fences and Joan of Arcadia. She was… Read Full Article