Louise Fletcher Biography
Louise Fletcher, born Estelle Louise Fletcher, is an American actress. She has taken roles in the television series Yancy Derringer And Wagon Train in 1958 and 1959 respectively. After this, she ventured into the 1963 film A Gathering Of Eagles. After a decade long absence, she resurfaced in 1974 with the film Thieves Like Us. In 1975, she started gaining recognition due to her role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. This performance also earned her an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
Her other film roles include Exorcist II: The Heretic, Brainstorm, Firestarter, Flowers In The Attic, 2 Days In The Valley, and Cruel Intentions. Later, she returned to Television and performed in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Picket Fences (which earned her Primetime Emmy Award Nomination), and Joan Of Arcadia. Later she played in Shameless in 2012, and Girlboss in 2017.
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She was born on the 22nd of July, 1934 in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. She is 85 years old as of 2019.
Louise Fletcher Family
She was born to Estelle Caldwell and Reverend Robert Capers Fletcher. Both of whom were deaf. She was the second born and had three siblings, Roberta John and Georgianna. None of her siblings, or herself, had any hearing impairment.
Louise Fletcher Divorce
In 1960, she got married to Jerry Bick, a literary agent, and producer. The couple divorced in 1977.
Louise Fletcher Children
She bore two sons with Bick, John Dashiell Bick, and Andrew Wilson Bick.
Louise Fletcher Acting
She began acting in Tv series, the likes of Lawman in 1958, Maverick in 1959, Untouchables in 1959, In 1960 ‘Perry Mason’ and ‘Tate’. In 1974 She went back to film in Thieves Like Us, One Over The Cuckoo’s Nest in 1975. She gained fame for winning Academy Award for Best Actress as well as a BAFTA Award and Golden Globe.
Louise kept going by featuring in Exorcist II: The Heretic in 1977, The Cheap Detective in 1978, The Lady In Red and The Magician Of Dublin in 1979, Brainstorm in 1983, Firestarter in 1984, Invaders from Mars in 1986, Flowers in the Attic in 1987, The Moon Junction in and Best of the Best in 1989, Blue Steel in 1990, Virtuosity in 1995, High School high in 1996 and Cruel inventions in 1999.
She went on into Aurora Borealis in 2005, TV movies as The Karen Carpenter Story in 1989, Nightmare on the 13th Floor in 1990, Haunting of Seacliff Inn in 1994 and The Stepford Husbands in 1996. She also played in Star Trek from 1993-1999.
Louise Fletcher Oscar
Starring as Nurse Ratched, she won an Oscar for best actress. Her performance in the film was the best one she had ever done. Her performance was ranked by the American Film Institute as one of the five greatest screen villains of all time
Louise Fletcher Jack Nicholson
She performed with Jack Nicholson in the film, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’. Jack played as the main character.
Louise Fletcher Movies
- Flowers in the Attic
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Exorcist II: The Heretic
- Invaders from Mars
- Private Practice
- Return to Two Moon Junction
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- The Hardest Part
- Finding Home
- Firestarter
- Shameless
- Strange Invaders
- The Cheap Detective
- A Dennis the Menace Christmas
- Aurora Borealis
- Brainstorm
- Chapter Four ‘Hysterical Blindness’
- Heroes
- Strange Bedfellows
- The 48th Annual Academy Awards
- The Player
- Virtuosity
- 7th Heaven
- After Image
- Breast Men
- High School High
- Honor Thy Mother
- Life Support
- Mama Dracula
- Nobody’s Fool
- Perry Mason
- Shadowzone
- Strange Behavior
- The Boy Who Could Fly
- The Case of the Mythical Monkeys
- The Reckoning
- The Tom Tuckett Story
- Thieves Like Us
- Wagon Train.
Louise Fletcher Flowers In The Attic
The classic teen novel of adolescent torment and forbidden love gets brought to the screen. When the father of four beautiful blond children is suddenly killed, their mother (Victoria Tennant, L.A. Story) takes them to the family home she fled 17 years earlier. Their fierce and frightening grandmother (Louise Fletcher, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest) locks them in an upstairs room, from which the only escape is into the cluttered and cobwebbed attic. The children’s isolation gets more and more extreme as their mother abandons them, finally even slowly poisoning them to gain her father’s inheritance. Sadly, the movie shies away from what made Flowers in the Attic such a hugely popular book–namely, the incestuous sex that began between the two older children, Cathy (Kristy Swanson, the movie version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Chris (Jeb Stuart Adams). Instead, the movie insinuates incestuous longing in all directions: Cathy’s father brings her special presents before he dies, Chris scrubs Cathy’s back in the tub, Chris has a noticeably stronger attachment to their mother than Cathy does–not to mention that the grandmother whips the half-naked mother in front of the grandfather. Fletcher brings a bit of bite to her role, and the movie occasionally rises to absurdly lurid zest. –Bret Fetzer.
Louise Fletcher One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
The movie is set during the early 1960s in the security ward of a state mental hospital and begins with the unit’s morning routine. Nurse Ratched (played by Louise Fletcher) enters for work, and the patients line up to receive their medications. A new inmate, R.P. McMurphy (Nicholson), arrives as a transfer from a prison work farm. As soon as he arrives on the ward, McMurphy begins interfering with the routines established by Nurse Ratched.
At a group therapy session, McMurphy suggests a change in the daily schedule to allow the inmates to watch the World Series on television. Nurse Ratched, after saying that a change in routine is inadvisable, suggests that a vote be taken; almost all the patients in the therapy session vote against the proposed change. Afterward, when inmates Harding (William Redfield) and Taber (Christopher Lloyd) get into a fight over a game of Monopoly, McMurphy sprays them with a hose and then announces that he is going to throw a water fountain through a window and escape to watch the World Series. He is unable to lift the water fountain, however.
At the next group therapy session, after Nurse Ratched shames Billy Bibbit (Brad Dourif) by asking him why he did not disclose to his mother that he had once fallen in love, Cheswick (Sydney Lassik) and McMurphy ask for a vote on watching the next game in the World Series. This time all the patients in the group vote in favor, but Nurse Ratched points out that those in therapy are only half of the inmates on the ward, and so the proposed change is denied.
Later, in the yard, McMurphy climbs onto the shoulders of the gigantic and seemingly deaf and mute American Indian Chief Bromden (Will Sampson) and over the security fence to hide in a bus that is waiting to take inmates on a scheduled field trip. After the patients have boarded the bus, McMurphy drives it to a boat chartering service—first stopping to pick up a friend, Candy (Marya Small)—and he takes them out fishing. They return happily to the dock only to find several police officers and Dr. Spivey (Dean Brooks) waiting for them.
Back at the hospital, Dr. Spivey and other doctors agree that McMurphy is not mentally disturbed and should be returned to the prison. Nurse Ratched persuades them that she can help him if he remains in the ward. After having learned from an orderly that he can be held in the hospital past the end of his sentence, McMurphy inquires at a group therapy session as to why no one told him that he could be kept in the hospital indefinitely.
Nurse Ratched tells him that many of the inmates choose to remain in the hospital. When other patients begin objecting to various restrictions, the session descends into chaos, and Cheswick, Chief Bromden, and McMurphy are sent to receive electroshock therapy. While they are waiting, Chief Bromden reveals to McMurphy that he is neither deaf nor mute but feigns the conditions in order to be left alone, and they make plans to escape together. The night of the planned escape, McMurphy’s friends’ Candy and Rose (Louisa Moritz) arrive bearing liquor. McMurphy bribes the night watchman, Turkle (Scatman Crothers), to let them onto the ward and awakens the inmates. A
drunken revel ensues. The day shift, including Nurse Ratched, arrive the following morning to find the ward trashed, the inmates passed out on the floor and Bibbit in bed with Candy. After Nurse Ratched shames him, Bibbit commits suicide. McMurphy, enraged, attacks Nurse Ratched and attempts to strangle her, but an orderly knocks him out.
One night sometime later, Chief Bromden watches two orderlies return McMurphy to the ward and place him in his bed. Chief tells McMurphy that now is the time to escape. McMurphy does not respond, and Chief realizes that he has been rendered helpless by a lobotomy. Chief says that he will not leave McMurphy in that condition and, in an act of mercy, smothers him with a pillow. Chief Bromden then pulls up a water fountain, throws it through a window, and exits.
Louise Fletcher Net Worth
Louise Fletcher Net Worth: Louise Fletcher is an American actress who has a net worth of $1 million.