Oscar-winning star Louise Fletcher passes away at 88

Oscarwinner Louise Fletcher passed away at the age of 88 on Friday at her home in FranceLouise Fletcher who won the best actress Oscar for her unforgettable performance as Nurse Ratched in Milos Formans One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest passed away at her place The iconic movie based on the Ken Kesey novel won five Oscars in 1976 including best picture and best actor for Jack Nicholson It explored the repressive tendency of authority through the story of the patients and staff of a psych ward as per the reports of VarietyAlso Read Chris Rock reacts over Oscar 2022 slap incident Everybody is trying to be a fing victimAccording to Variety the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest became the first in more than 40 years to win all of the major awards including best picture director actor actress and screenplay A significant box office success it received four additional Oscar nominationsFletcher began her acting career in the late 1950s on such episodic TV shows as Lawman Bat Masterson Maverick The Untouchables and 77 Sunset Strip Fletcher was born on July 22 1934 in Birmingham Alabama to deaf parents one of Oscars most memorable moments was when she accepted her Academy Award using sign languageAlso ReadAlia Bhatt introduced as Keya Dhawan in first look of her Hollywood debut Heart of Stone watchFletcher became just the third woman to receive an Oscar a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for the same performance after winning her Oscar It was because of Fletchers portrayal that in 2020 the Ryan MurphyEvan Romansky Netflix series Ratched which serves as a sort of prequel to the book and movie and stars Sarah Paulson would only need the word Ratchet to evoke the dread and cruelty that Fletcher had portrayed decades earlier according to DeadlineJust a few years later in 1993 she was cast in a recurring role as the cunning Bajoran religious figure Kai Winn Adami on Star Trek Deep Space Nine which marked the beginning of a career revival She made a guest appearance on Picket Fences in 1996 portraying the town mayors estranged mother who was yet another coldblooded character portrayed by deaf actor Marlee Matlin Fletcher was nominated for an Emmy for being the mother who turned down her deaf daughterFletchers 2004 guest appearance as an elderly music teacher on Joan of Arcadia earned her another Emmy nominationLater TV roles included appearances on Private Practice 7th Heaven and Shameless 20112012 where she memorably returned as the methcooking jailbird mother of William H Macys Frank Gallagher Her final TV appearance was in the Girlboss comedy from 2017 on NetflixJerry Bick a movie producer and Fletcher were wed from 1959 until their divorce in 1977 Sons John and Andrew Bick granddaughter Emilee Kaya Bick sisters Roberta Ray and Edward Ray as well as 10 nieces and nephews are her surviving family membersThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever