Oscar-Winning ‘Cuckoo's Nest' Actor Louise Fletcher Dies

FILE – Louise Fletcher, a cast member in “Shameless,” poses at the premiere of the second season of the Showtime television series in Los Angeles, Jan. 5, 2012. Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, died Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, at age 88.