Louise Fletcher

Louise Fletcher (1934—2022) was an actor best known for playing Nurse Ratched in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, earning an Academy Award for Best Actress. She appears briefly in The Muppets Go Hollywood.
Fletcher began playing small or guest parts on fifties and sixties TV series including The Untouchables, Maverick, The Millionaire, and Perry Mason. In film, she had a small role in A Gathering of Eagles (with Rock Hudson) and supporting roles in Russian Roulette (with Gordon Jackson) and Thieves Like Us (directed by Robert Altman). After her Oscar winning performance, she played one of the leads in Exorcist II: The Heretic and was part of the all-star cast supporting Peter Falk in the film noir spoof The Cheap Detective. 
By the 1980s, Fletcher was mostly appearing in horror and scifi films, including Mama Dracula (in the title role, with Vincent Grass), Michael Laughlin's Strange Behavior and Strange Invaders, Firestarter (with Drew Barrymore), and Invaders from Mars (with Laraine Newman). TV movies offered different roles in fare such as A Summer to Remember, The Karen Carpenter Story (as her mother), and J. Edgar Hoover. Later films included Altman's The Player, Blue Steel (with Jamie Lee Curtis), Virtuosity (with Denzel Washington), and Cruel Intentions. She recurred on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Winn Adami and guest starred on the 1980s version of The Twilight Zone, Picket Fences, Tales from the Crypt, ER, Heroes, and Shameless (recurring as Peg Gallagher).
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