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 ...

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, 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.

Credit : Michael Montfort/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Louise Fletcher, the actress who played the menacing Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, has died, PEOPLE can confirm. She was 88.

Louise Fletcher died at her home in Montdurausse, France at the age of 88 on Saturday (September 24). The actress was a rarity in Tinseltown, finding fame much later in life after putting her ...

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 25, 2022, Section A, Page 30 of the New York edition with the headline: Louise Fletcher, Evil Nurse Ratched of ‘Cuckoo’s Nest,’ Is Dead at 88.

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.

Tributes have poured in for Oscar-winning actor Louise Fletcher who has passed away at her home in France aged 88 after a career in movies and TV that spanned decades.

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.