Oscar Winner Louise Fletcher Dead At 88
etcanada.comAward-winning actress Louise Fletcher has died at age 88. Deadline reports that news of her death was announced Friday, Sept.
23 by her family via agent David Shaul. While no cause of death was specified, Shaul told the outlet that Fletcher passed away in her sleep, surrounded by family, at the home she had built from a 300-year-old farmhouse in Montdurausse, France.
Earlier on Friday, she said to her family about her home, “I can’t believe I created something so meaningful to my well-being.” Fletcher won the Best Actress Oscar at the 1976 Academy Awards for her portrayal of sadistic Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, a role that remains her best-known; the character was successfully resurrected in 2020 for the Netflix series “Ratched”, which told the her backstory. READ MORE: ‘Ratched’ Is Netflix’s Most-Watched Series Debut Of 2020 Born in 1934 to deaf parents, Fletcher famously used American Sign Language in her Oscar acceptance speech as she thanked her mother and father for “teaching me to have a dream.
You are seeing my dream come true.” Fletcher’s acting career spanned seven decades, beginning with television roles in the 1950s and ’60s, including such TV classics as “Perry Mason”, “Maverick”, “77 Sunset Strip”, “The Untouchables” and “Wagon Train”.
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