Louise Fletcher

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Nationality: American
Birthdate: 07/22/1934
Birthplace: Birmingham, Alabama, USA

biography

You won't find Louise Fletcher complaining about roles for women. This hard-working actress began in TV in the late 1950s and early 60s but had been away from the business for more than a decade raising her two sons when her friendship with Robert Altman led to her feature debut in the director's "Thieves Like Us" (1974). Though she lost the part modeled on herself to Lily Tomlin in Altman's "Nashville" (1975), she scored her greatest success that year, winning the Best Actress Oscar as the cold, dictatorial Nurse Ratched in Milos Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Fletcher's rather Continued

Credits

Ruth Shorter
2006
Grandmother
2005
(TV Show)
2004-2004
Nurse
2004
Mother Superior
2003
Nellie
2000
Helen Rosemond
1999
Mrs Doyle
1996
Lillian
1996
Elizabeth Deane
1995
Dr Gene Tuskin
1977
Nurse Ratched
1975
Mattie
1974
Bonnie Ash Fitzpatrick
Sally's Mother
Mrs Grady
Norma Manders
Marlene DuChard
Alena Heiss
Mrs McKeltch
Virginia Taylor
Richard's Mother
Katherine Mulroney
Mrs Turner
Mrs Benjamin
Grandmother
Innkeeper
Anna Sage
Lillian Reynolds
Grace Cornwell
Barbara Moorehead
Miriam Steward
Actor
Actor
Loes Bakker
Mamma Dracula
Actor

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Raised in Alabama
1958 
TV debut as an extra on "Playhouse 90"
 
Made guest appearances on TV shows like "The Millionnaire" (CBS) and "77 Sunset Strip" (ABC) during the late 1950s and early 1960s
 
Lived in London during the 1960s
1974 
Returned to acting in feature film debut, Robert Altman's "Thieves Like Us"
Continued

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