Louise Fletcher
Louise Fletcher ( born July 22, 1934 in Birmingham, Alabama ) is an American actress. Your well- known roles she played as tyrannical head nurse in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as Kai Winn in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Life and career
Fletcher was the daughter of deaf parents Robert and Estelle Fletcher, so you speaking of a hearing aunt was taught that they also brought with acting in touch. After graduating from the University of North Carolina, she moved to Los Angeles in California, where she worked as a secretary during the day and in the evening took acting lessons. It was followed by appearances in various television productions until she married in 1960 and needed time for their family.
1974 Louise Fletcher returned in Robert Altman's Thieves like us back to the film. Miloš Forman saw her and cast her for the role of the tyrannical head nurse Ratched in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, for which she received an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe for best actress in a drama. The American Film Institute conducts its character of Nurse Ratched as number five on the list of 100 best movie villains of all time. Fletcher appeared also in films such as The Cheap Detective, Exorcist II - on The Heretic (1977 ), Firestarter, Brainstorm (1983 ), Invaders from Mars, Flowers in the Attic and Natural Enemies ( with Peter Armstrong and Hal Holbrook ).
For her recurring role in the television series Picket Fences, she was nominated for an Emmy. She also had a recurring role in the science fiction series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Kai Winn, the religious leader of the Bajoran.
Louise Fletcher was married from 1960 to the divorce in 1978 with producer Jerry Bick and has two sons from this marriage. She caused a stir when, after her divorce, an affair with more than 25 years younger and 21-year- old Morgan Mason, son of the actor James Mason entered.