American actress Louise Fletcher, Oscar for best actress for her role in the film Flight over a cuckoo’s nest of Milos Forman (1975), died in France at the age of 88, American media reported on Friday. Louise Fletcher, who had two sons, died at her home in Montdurausse in the south of France, according to variety and deadline, citing sources in his entourage.
Born on July 22, 1934 in Birmingham, Alabama (United States), Louise Fletcher used sign language to thank her parents, who are both deaf, when she received her Oscar. Her most notable role was that of nurse Mildred Ratched offered by Milos Forman (who died in 2018) in Flight over a cuckoo’s nest, whose lead character was played by Jack Nicholson and which also won her the Golden Globe and BAFTA for Best Actress. She then starred in films like The Player by Robert Altman or The Exorcist 2. But Louise Fletcher was also a figure of American television, turning in series like The Incorruptibles Where Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Louise Fletcher had been nominated for an Emmy Award for her roles in television series Picket Fences (1996) and Joan of Arcadia (2004). Louise Fletcher had yet played in two episodes of the Netflix show girlboss in 2017, according to IMDb.com.