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News from the NOS•today, 09:39
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Actress Louise Fletcher, best known for her iconic, Oscar-winning role as the cruel, calculating nurse Ratched in the film One flew over the cuckoo’s nest since 1975, he has disappeared at the age of 88.
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The role of the tyrannical nurse in a psychiatric hospital set a new standard for movie villains in Hollywood. Fletcher won the Oscar for her role in Milos Forman’s film when she was 41.
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The actress was still little known when she was cast in the role alongside actor Jack Nicholson. It later emerged that many famous actresses of the period such as Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn and Angela Lansbury had turned down the role because they thought it was too terrible.
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One flew over the cuckoo’s nest became the first film to win the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay since 1934. In his acceptance speech after accepting the award, Fletcher said, “It looks like that you all hate me and I enjoyed being hated by you. “
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He also used American Sign Language to thank his deaf parents:
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Fletcher continued to work into old age, mainly in television series. In the 1990s she was seen in series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and was nominated for an Emmy in 1996 and 2004 for roles in Fences in Joan of Arcadia. His latest film should be second IMDb movie site still out: the film Everbrookabout a nursing home where geriatric residents seem to be suffering from delusions.
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Despite her long career, the role of Nurse Ratched remains the most memorable. So memorable that in 2020 Netflix made a series called Ratedwhich tells the story of what the nurse’s life was like before the events One flew over the cuckoo’s nest. Actress Sarah Paulson plays the lead role.
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Estelle Louise Fletcher was born on July 22, 1934, the second of four children. She married producer Jerry Bick in the early 1960s and had two children, John and Andrew. Fletcher divorced Bick in 1977.
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Fletcher died yesterday in her sleep surrounded by family at her home in Montdurausse, France, her agent David Shaul told AP news agency. Her son Andrew Bick tells The Hollywood Reporter that she has a death from natural causes passed over.
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