Louise Fletcher

Estelle Louise Fletcher (born in Birmingham, Alabama, July 22, 1934, died September 23, 2022) played Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) directed by Milos Forman from the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey, starring Jack Nicholson. She acted in movies like Thieves Like Us (1974) by Robert Altman, Blue Steel (1990) with Jamie Lee Curtis, Virtuosity (1995) with Denzel Washington, Cruel Intentions (1999) with Ryan Phillippe. On television she acted in the TV movie The Karen Carpenter Story (1989), guest starred in Picket Fences (1996) and Joan of Arcadia (2004), had a recurring role in the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999).