Louise Fletcher, who won a best actress Oscar for her role as Jack Nicholson 's cruel screen nemesis Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest," has died. She was 88.

Louise Fletcher, whose Oscar-winning performance as the sadistic Nurse Ratched in 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest gave Hollywood one of its greatest all-time villains and provided the ...

Louise Fletcher, the veteran actress who earned a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of the cruel, sadistic psych ward administrator Nurse Mildred Ratched in Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the ...

NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Louise Fletcher, an Oscar-winning actress from Alabama, died in her home in France on Friday, according to her agent. She was 88.

She divorced Bick in 1977 and he died in 2004. Louise Fletcher holds the Academy Award she won for her leading role in “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” in Los Angeles, March 30, 1976.

Louise Fletcher, the actress who won an Academy Award for playing the villainous Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” died Friday in France, according to her agent David Shaul ...

SALEM, Ore. — Louise Fletcher says she can't bear to watch "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" because the Nurse Ratched character she won an Oscar for is so cruel. "I find it too painful," said ...

The character was so memorable she would become the basis for a Netflix series, "Ratched," 45 years later. Estelle Louise Fletcher was born the second of four children on July 22, 1934, in Birmingham.

Louise Fletcher, who was famously known for her Oscar-winning performance as Nurse Ratched in 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, has died at the age of 88 in her home in France.