Fletcher's character in ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was so memorable, she would become the basis for a Netflix series 45 years later.
“I was the last person cast,” she recalled of playing Nurse Ratched in a 2004 interview. “It wasn’t until we were halfway through shooting that I realized the part had been offered to other actresses who didn’t want to appear so horrible on the screen.”
LOS ANGELES – Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” set a new standard for screen villains an.
Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest" set a new standard for screen villains, has died at 88.