Louise Fletcher
Gender: Female
Born: 22nd July 1934 (currently 77 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: VR.5, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Boys of Twilight, The Stepford Husbands
Movies: Brainstorm, Exorcist II: The Heretic, High School High, Thieves Like Us, Two Moon Junction, Aurora Borealis, Big Eden, Strange Invaders, Blue Steel, The Cheap Detective, Invaders from Mars, Flowers in the Attic, The Last Sin Eater, Grizzly II: The Predator, Shadowzone, Giorgino, The Stepford Husbands, Return to Two Moon Junction, Strange Behavior, Love Kills, Mama Dracula, The Lucky Star, Second Serve, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Russian Roulette, 2 Days in the Valley, Cruel Intentions, Firestarter, The Exorcist series, The Devil's Arithmetic, Talk to Me, Breast Men, Nobody's Fool, Virtuosity, After Image, Dancing in Twilight, The Lady in Red, Manna from Heaven, Silver Man, Edie and Pen, Best of the Best, Fat Rose and Squeaky, Finding Home, More Dogs Than Bones, A Time to Remember, Clipping Adam, The Magician of Lublin, A Dennis the Menace Christmas, Love to Kill, The Contract, A Map of the World, The Happiest Day of His Life, The Home, Cassadaga
Louise Fletcher (born July 22, 1934) is an American actress best known for her role as Nurse Ratched in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and as Kai Winn Adami in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She also guest starred on the science fiction television series Heroes. She also received Emmy nominations for her guest starring roles in Picket Fences and Joan of Arcadia.
Fletcher, the second of four children, was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the daughter of Estelle Caldwell and the Reverend Robert Capers Fletcher, who was an Episcopal priest from Arab, Alabama. Both of her parents were deaf and worked with the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Fletcher's father founded more than 40 churches for the deaf in Alabama. Fletcher and her siblings, Roberta, John and Georgianna, were all born without any hearing loss; 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.
Fletcher began appearing in several television productions, including Lawman and the
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