Louise Fletcher
Highest Rated: 93% One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Jul 22, 1934
Birthplace: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
An American film and television actress of considerable and quiet strength, Louise Fletcher won the Academy Award in 1975 as the unforgettable, iron-willed Nurse Ratched in Milos Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." The role and subsequent honors were seen by the press as the high point of Fletcher's screen career, since none of the projects that followed, which included "Exorcist II: The Heretic" (1979), "Brainstorm" (1983) and "Invaders from Mars" (1987) matched its box office or critical returns. However, Fletcher worked steadily after "Cuckoo's Nest," earning Emmy nominations for television turns and accepting the notion of "the Oscar curse" with patience and good humor, confident in the knowledge that she had created one of cinema's most enduring villains.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20% | 23% | A Perfect Man | Abbie (Character) | $388 | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Of Two Minds | Aunt Will (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 18% | 25% | Cassadaga | Claire (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | The Genesis Code | Ellen Taylor (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | A Dennis the Menace Christmas | Mrs. Martha Wilson (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 21% | 72% | The Last Sin Eater | Miz Elda (Character) | $379.6K | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Me and Luke | Glennie (Character) | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Fat Rose and Squeaky | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Dancing in Twilight | Evelyn (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 68% | 64% | Aurora Borealis | Ruth (Character) | $60.6K | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Clipping Adam | Grammy (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | A Time to Remember | Billy Calhoun (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 30% | 53% | Finding Home | Esther (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 0% | 16% | After Image | Aunt Cora (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 22% | 50% | Manna From Heaven | Mother Superior (Character) | $505.7K | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | Silver Man | Val (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 64% | 79% | Big Eden | Grace Cornwell (Character) | $511.2K | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | More Dogs Than Bones | Iva Doll (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Very Mean Men | Katherine Mulroney (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 66% | 55% | A Map of the World | Nellie Goodwin (Character) | $593.6K | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | The Devil's Arithmetic | Aunt Eva (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 54% | 81% | Cruel Intentions | Helen Rosemond (Character) | $38.6M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Time Served | Warden Mildred Reinecke (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Contract | Grandma Collins (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Kills | Alena Heiss (Character) | - | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Girl Gets Moe | Gloria (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 50% | 33% | Breast Men | Mrs. Saunders (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sins of the Mind | Dr. Anna Bingham (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heartless | Aunt Lydia McGuffy (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Married to a Stranger | Nana (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Edie & Pen | Judge (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 62% | 54% | 2 Days in the Valley | Evelyn (Character) | $11.1M | 1996 |
| 19% | 37% | High School High | Principal Evelyn Doyle (Character) | $21.0M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | The Stepford Husbands | Miriam Benton (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Frankenstein and Me | Mrs. Perdue (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 31% | 32% | Virtuosity | Elizabeth Deane (Character) | $23.2M | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Someone Else's Child | Faye Maddox (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | The Haunting of Seacliff Inn | Dorothy O'Hara (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | Return to Two Moon Junction | Belle Delongpre (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | Tollbooth | Lillian (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tryst | Maggie (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 75% | 35% | Blue Steel | Shirley Turner (Character) | $7.7M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Nightmare on the 13th Floor | Letti Gordon (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 28% | Shadowzone | Dr. Erhardt (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | The Karen Carpenter Story | Agnes Carpenter (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Final Notice | Unknown (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 0% | 49% | Two Moon Junction | Belle (Character) | $1.5M | 1988 |
| 11% | 50% | Flowers in the Attic | Grandmother (Character) | $13.1M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | J. Edgar Hoover | Annie M. Hoover (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Second Serve | Dr. Sadie M. Bishop (Character) | - | 1986 |
| 0% | 35% | Nobody's Fool | Pearl (Character) | $258.1K | 1986 |
| 63% | 69% | The Boy Who Could Fly | Psychiatrist (Character) | $6.3M | 1986 |
| 38% | 33% | Invaders From Mars | Mrs. McKeltch (Character) | $4.8M | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | A Summer to Remember | Dr. Dolly McKeever (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Overnight Sensation | Eve Peregrine (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 36% | 53% | Firestarter | Norma Manders (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Grizzly II: Revenge | Eileene Draygon (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 57% | 56% | Brainstorm | Lillian Reynolds (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 63% | 33% | Strange Invaders | Mrs. Benjamin (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Talk to Me | Richard's mother (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 80% | 44% | Strange Behavior | Barbara Moorehead (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 11% | Mamma Dracula | Mama Dracula (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Natural Enemies | Miriam Steward (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lucky Star | Loes Bakker (Character) | - | 1980 |
| 83% | 47% | The Lady in Red | Anna Sage (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Magician of Lublin | Emilia (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Guns, Sin and Bathtub Gin | Anna Sage (Character) | - | 1979 |
| 50% | 57% | The Cheap Detective | Marlene DuChard (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery | Sally Kimball (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 10% | 12% | Exorcist II: The Heretic | Dr. Gene Tuskin (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Russian Roulette | Midge (Character) | - | 1975 |
| 93% | 96% | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Nurse Mildred Ratched (Character) | - | 1975 |
| 82% | 72% | Thieves Like Us | Mattie (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Can Ellen Be Saved? | Bea Lindsey (Character) | - | 1974 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 80% | Private Practice | Frances Wilder (Guest Star) | 2010-2011 |
| 82% | 81% | Shameless | Peg Gallagher (Guest Star) | 2011 |
| 52% | 65% | Heroes | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 84% | ER | Roberta 'Birdie' Chadwick (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| 96% | 57% | Joan of Arcadia | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| 14% | No Score Yet | It's All Relative | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| 91% | 88% | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Vedek Winn (Guest Star) | 1993-1999 |
| 35% | No Score Yet | Brimstone | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Practice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Profiler | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| 82% | No Score Yet | Picket Fences | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ray Bradbury Theater | Miss Weldon (Character) | 1992 |
| 82% | 98% | Tales From the Crypt | Unknown (Character) | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hitchhiker | Unknown (Character) | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Twilight Zone | Unknown (Character) | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | Aithra McLowery (Guest Star) | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Susan Connolly (Guest Star) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sugarfoot | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959-1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Step Beyond | Unknown (Character) | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Untouchables | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Julia Maltby (Guest Star) | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bat Masterson | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 98% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown (Character) | 1958 |
| 75% | No Score Yet | VR.5 | Unknown (Character) |