Oscar fame actress ‘Louise Fletcher’ died at age 88 | Known for her Role as Nurse Ratched in ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ | 2022

Louise Fletcher, a old veteran actress who is popularly known for her Oscar winning performance in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest“, there had been tragic news regarding the actress as she died yesterday at the age of 88.

Fletcher in her last moments was found at her house in Montdurausse, France with her family, She died during her sleep last night, it was a silent death and all the family members were shocked by the sudden death of her. Fletcher’s Manager David Shaul came forward and addressed ‘USA Today Press‘ and conveyed everyone about Fletcher’s death and he kept cause of death undisclosed.

During the early days of her career, she was considered to be one of the finest actress and appeared in many movies. It was 1975, when she was given a chance to work in the movie ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, for which she was later awarded with ‘The Oscar‘ for Best Leading actress female, Her role in the movie was to look after the patients in a psychiatric hospital as a Nurse. The movie won 5 Oscars alone for various categories like Best Director, Best Picture and Jack Nicholson was awarded with ‘Academy Awards’ for Best Actor in a Lead Role for his outstanding performance as a Psycho patient P. McMurphy, who hated the Nurse for her arrogant behavior.

She had acted in countless movies such as A Gathering of Eagles, Thieves Like Us, The Lucky Star, Mama Dracula and many more.

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She was born in Alabama to a hearing-impaired parents, Louise after winning Oscars for the first time got too emotional and delivered one of the most memorable and touching speech in the history of Oscars.

Fletcher after holding her Oscar in the year 1976, she addressed the audience with a gentle smile: “It seems like everyone hated me, but in the end you all helped me in getting this award. It has been a really challenging journey throughout but I have loved every part of it. In the end I would just like you to say thank you for hating me”.

With tears filled in her eyes, she mentioned her deaf parents in Alabama, she used sign language to deliver a heartfelt message to her parents: “I am really grateful that I was as your Daughter, thank you for everything you taught me and motivating for never giving up no matter how tough the challenges were, because in the end if you work hard dreams to come true”. Right after her speech got over, there was thundering applause from all across the hall.

During starting days of her acting career, after few movies she had to give up acting for looking after her children. Then eventually after her 40s she returned back to acting and director Forman casted her for “Cuckoo’s Nest”, and after that she never looked back in her career. She went on to act in many movies and was admired by legendary directors. Later on, Robert Altman cast her in “Thieves Like Us“..At that moment Fletcher knew very little, as many well-known actresses like Ellen Burstyn, Anne Bancroft, Angela Lansbury had already gave up that offer by Robert.

She recollected this in 2004 while giving an interview to the Associated Press. She said “Until that time i didn’t knew that i was the last actress to be cast for that movie. Not before we were halfway through the completion of the movie that I got to know that this role was already offered to many actors before and they didn’t accept it as it was weird according to them.”

But later on the movie turned out to be great, and even after 45 years of its release it inspired Ryan Murphy who made a series “Ratched” that was loosely based on Thieves Likes Us which streamed on Netflix. Sarah Paulson played the lead role in the series alongside Finn Wittrock, Cynthia Nixon, Sharon Jones and Jon Jon Brones.