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Louise Fletcher
Estelle Louise Fletcher was an American actress. She is best known for her portrayal of the antagonist Nurse Ratched in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), which earned her numerous accolades, including the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
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entertainment · American actress (1934–2022) · television actor · film actor · actor · also Louise Fletcher, Estelle Louise Fletcher, Fletcher
Born 22 July 1934 · Died 23 September 2022 · Q182372
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2011· 1 entry
And 2012, she appeared on four episodes of Shameless as Grammy Gallagher, Frank Gallagher's foul-mouthed and hard-living mother, who is serving a prison sentence for manslaughter related to a meth lab explosion
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2009· 1 entry
Fletcher appeared in Heroes as the physician mother of character Emma Coolidge
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1976).
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1974· 1 entry
Fletcher returned to film in the crime drama Thieves Like Us, co-produced by her husband Jerry Bick and Robert Altman, who also directed
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1960· 1 entry
Fletcher made two guest appearances on Perry Mason, as defendant Gladys Doyle in "The Case of the Mythical Monkeys", and as Susan Connolly in "The Case of the Larcenous Lady"
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1959· 1 entry
Appeared in an episode of the original Untouchables television series starring Robert Stack, "Ma Barker and Her Boys", as Elouise
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1934· 2 entries
Born 1934-07-22.
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In Birmingham, Alabama, the second of four children of Estelle (née Caldwell) and the Reverend Robert Capers Fletcher, an Episcopal missionary from Arab, Alabama
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