Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Louise Fletcher (July 22, 1934 – September 23, 2022) was an American actress, best known for her portrayal of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), which earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. She was also well-known for her recurring role as the Bajoran religious leader Kai Winn Adami in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–99), as well as for her role as Helen Rosemond ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Grizzly II: Revenge
2020
as Eileene Draygon
All hell breaks loose when a giant grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of her cubs by poachers, attacks a massive rock concert in the National Park. [...
A Perfect Man
2013
as Abbie
A philandering husband unknowingly falls back in love with his wife over the phone when she pretends to be another woman.
Of Two Minds
2012
as Aunt Will
Follows the story of the challenging relationship between Billie and her younger schizophrenic sister, Elizabeth Baby. After their mother dies, Billie...
Cassadaga
2011
as Claire
A deaf girl attempts to contact her sister during a séance, only to connect with the ghost of a murdered woman.
Once Upon a Time… One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2011
A documentary about the making of Milos Forman's 1975 film ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, featuring interviews with the director, cast, and crew.
The Genesis Code
2010
as Ellen Taylor
A college hockey player and a female journalism student struggle to find common ground with their spiritual faith and scientific studies.
Miloš Forman: What Doesn't Kill You…
2009
as Self
Why did Milos Forman have to make certain films the way he did? Where does his inner strength come from? What is the story of his life?
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2009
as Self
Documentary on the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
A Dennis the Menace Christmas
2007
as Martha Wilson
A Dennis The Menace version of A Christmas Carol where Mr. Wilson plays his own version of Scrooge. While Dennis has problems of his own with the neig...
The Last Sin Eater
2007
as Miz Elda
In seeking her own redemption from the one man of whom she is most afraid, 10-year-old Cadi Forbes discovers a secret sin haunting her community of We...
A Dad for Christmas
2006
as Glennie
Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend plans to put the baby up for adoption without his c...
Fat Rose and Squeaky
2006
as Bonnie
The Irish-willed eighty-year-old Bonnie Ash Fitzpatrick and her only friend in life, seventy-year-old Celine Snow disagree on just about everything. W...
Aurora Borealis
2005
as Ruth Shorter
A young man struggles to correct his life after the death of his father.
Dancing in Twilight
2005
as Evelyn
When the wife of Indian immigrant Matt Singh dies suddenly (having kept her illness a secret), the successful businessman suddenly finds himself adrif...
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
2004
as Self
The life and times of famous Jack Nicholson include his 30-years relationship with Anjelica Houston and find out his sister is his real mother.
Clipping Adam
2004
as Grammy
Despite what he says, Adam is not "fine". The summer before freshman year should be a time full of possibilities, but Adam struggles with family trage...
A Time to Remember
2003
as Billy Calhoun
An artist and single mother returns to her childhood home to patch things up with her mother who has Alzheimers disease.
Finding Home
2003
as Esther
Inheriting her grandmother's remote island Inn causes Amanda to re-evaluate her life and decisions.
Manna from Heaven
2002
as Mother Superior
Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was ...
After Image
2001
as Aunt Cora
The story of a clairvoyant who falls in love with a crime photographer. Soon, both become involved in the search for a pathological murderer.
Touched by a Killer
2001
as Judge Erica Robertson
Crime - When reporter Nicki Barrington investigates a man on death row for the murder of a young woman, she discovers the evidence was circumstantial ...
More Dogs Than Bones
2000
as Iva Doll
A series of mishaps and misfortunes over $1 million in cash leads to murder, mayhem and greed.
Very Mean Men
2000
as Katherine Mulroney
A bartender wants rid of an obnoxious drunk but not until the drunk has left a decent tip. So the bartender tells the story of two mobster families, t...
Big Eden
2000
as Grace Cornwell
Henry Hart is a young gay artist living in New York City. When his grandfather has a stroke, Henry puts his career on hold and returns home to the sma...
Silver Man
2000
as Val
The life of a street performer and human oddity with silver skin changes forever when he must save the woman he loves from her abusive ex.
The Contract
1999
as Grandma Collins
After a bad day with her boss, friend, husband, babysitter etc., Anne goes to a bar. A man offers to solve her problems. As a joke, she signs a napkin...
Love Kills
1999
as Alena Heiss
A masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills millionaire.
A Map of the World
1999
as Nellie Goodwin
School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property ...
Time Served
1999
as Warden Mildred Reinecke
When a boy kills his abusive stepfather in self-defense, his mother takes the blame and gets sentenced to a long prison term. The warden is corrupt an...
The Devil's Arithmetic
1999
as Aunt Eva
An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to revaluate...
Cruel Intentions
1999
as Helen Rosemond
Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. I...
Johnny 316
1998
as Sally's Mother
A preacher without resources spends his days reciting Bible verses. One day he meets a young jobless girl who wanders on Hollywood Boulevard. An impos...
Completely Cuckoo
1997
as Self
Behind the scenes interviews for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Breast Men
1997
as Mrs. Saunders
We follow the two Texas doctors who invented the modern breast implant and its surgical procedure. However, when success and money come their way, the...
Heartless
1997
as Lydia McGuffy
A shy young woman receives a heart transplant and undergoes a personality change that may be connected to the murdered donor.
Married to a Stranger
1997
as Nana, Megan's Mother
A woman develops severe amnesia after a blow to the head, and can no longer remember her family.
The Girl Gets Moe
1997
as Gloria
Importing illegal automatic weapons for resale is a big business and Moe is the middleman. Even with the huge monetary rewards available, he finds tha...
Sins of the Mind
1997
as Dr. Anna Bingham
A young woman returning from a renaissance fair survives a car accident, but much to her family's horror, the accident damages her brain and she devel...
Gone Fishin'
1997
as Restaurant Owner (uncredited)
Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip.
High School High
1996
as Schuldirektorin Evelyn Doyle
Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students...
2 Days in the Valley
1996
as Evelyn
In a sleepy bedroom community of LA's San Fernando Valley, the murder of a professional athlete by two hit men sets into motion a chain of events that...
Frankenstein and Me
1996
as Mrs. Perdue
Earl Williams is a dreamer teenager obsessed with monsters, who fantasizes his life as if he were living in the world of the monsters of Universal Stu...
The Stepford Husbands
1996
as Miriam Benton
Something sinister is going on in the town of Stepford, and this time the men should watch their backs.
Edie & Pen
1996
as Judge
In this comedy, two women head for Reno to get simultaneous quicky divorces and end up becoming friends. Edie was married years ago, but her husband a...
Mulholland Falls
1996
as Esther
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Virtuosity
1995
as Elizabeth Deane
The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity...
Someone Else's Child
1994
as Faye Maddox
Ten years after the birth of her son, Corey Maddox discovers an awful truth: Her son was switched at birth.
Tryst
1994
as Maggie
A young man journeys to the estate of rich family in Santa Barbara, California, to visit his mother, who works there as a maid and whom he hasn't seen...
Tollbooth
1994
as Lillian
A young woman’s dreams of love are trapped in an empty life of broken promises and futile hopes, as she desperately awaits the return of her long-miss...
Giorgino
1994
as Innkeeper
October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of...
The Haunting of Seacliff Inn
1994
as Dorothy O'Hara
Susan and Mark move to a seaside town to buy an old house and open an inn. They came to look at one house, but Susan is inexplicably drawn to another....
Return to Two Moon Junction
1994
as Belle Delongpre
There's a special place in Georgia called Two Moon Junction. It's known for its power of seduction and for awakening the sense with an unquenchable se...
On Deadly Ground
1994
as Bartender (uncredited)
Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care w...
Blind Vision
1992
as Miss Taylor
A shy mail clerk becomes embroiled in the investigation of the murder of a man involved with the beautiful neighbor he is obsessed with.
The Player
1992
as Louise Fletcher
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Nightmare on the 13th Floor
1990
as Letti Gordon
In this made-for-cable television horror thriller, a travel writer visits a historic hotel to write a story about it and inadvertently finds herself o...
Blue Steel
1990
as Shirley Turner
Rookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the as...
Shadowzone
1990
as Dr. Erhardt
After someone is killed in the subterranean project called "Shadowzone," a NASA captain is called in to investigate. In the project, sleeping subjects...
Best of the Best
1989
as Mrs. Grady
A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country--...
The Karen Carpenter Story
1989
as Agnes Carpenter
Story of the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Karen Carpenter, who became a famous singer before battling anorexia and bulimia. This made-for-TV movie...
Two Moon Junction
1988
as Belle
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugg...
Flowers in the Attic
1987
as Olivia Foxworth
After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kep...
J. Edgar Hoover
1987
as Annie M. Hoover
He battled the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, encouraged McCarthy and single-handedly changed the course of history. Hired by F.D.R. to be the direc...
Nobody's Fool
1986
as Pearl
Cassie, who seeks love and escape from her mundane ordinary life, meets a traveling Shakespeare troupe offering a community acting workshop.
The Boy Who Could Fly
1986
as Dr. Granada
Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, ...
Invaders from Mars
1986
as Mrs. McKeltch
In this remake of the classic 1950s sci-fi tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his...
Second Serve
1986
as Dr. Sadie M. Bishop
Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a trans woman. Flashbac...
A Summer to Remember
1985
as Dr. Dolly McKeever
Silent since losing his hearing to meningitis, young Toby Wyler takes a bitter stance against the world and his family, refusing to accept his new ste...
Islands
1984
as Maureen
A boy goes to an island
Overnight Sensation
1984
as Evie Peregrine
Overnight Sensation is a 1984 short film directed by Jon Bloom, based loosely on W. Somerset Maugham's short story "The Colonel's Lady." After housewi...
Firestarter
1984
as Norma Manders
Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the...
Talk to Me
1984
as Mother
Richard, a successful New York accountant, has a chronic stuttering problem that causes great exhaustion and personal strife for him. After trying a n...
Brainstorm
1983
as Lillian Reynolds
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results wh...
Strange Invaders
1983
as Mrs. Benjamin
Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.
The Lucky Star
1982
as Loes Bakker
In the war-torn Netherlands, a local Jewish boy has vivid escapist fantasies of being in a Hollywood western where good always triumphs.
Strange Behavior
1981
as Barbara Moorehead
When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being...
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
1981
as Self
The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda. The title, which ...
Mama Dracula
1980
as Mama Dracula
A female vampire must bathe in the blood of virgins in order to stay alive. The trouble is that virgins are in short supply nowadays, and she is runni...
The Magician of Lublin
1979
as Emilia
Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career through personal problems. He has one more chance at the...
Natural Enemies
1979
as Miriam Steward
Paul Steward, editor of a scientific journal, considers his life to be an empty failure. Awake one morning after a sleepless night, he comes to a deci...
The Lady in Red
1979
as Anna Sage
A farm girl's life turns upside down after she moves to Chicago and becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime.
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
1978
as Sally Kimball
The wife of a paralytic becomes involved in an extra-marital affair, with his permission.
The Cheap Detective
1978
as Marlene DuChard
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of...
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977
as Dr. Gene Tuskin
Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and kn...
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
1976
as Self
Made in 1976, TVTV's close-up look at Hollywood's annual awards ritual mixes irreverent documentary with deadpan comedy. TVTV's cameras go behind the ...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975
as Nurse Mildred Ratched
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and...
Russian Roulette
1975
as Midge
An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state visit by the Soviet premier. When the prisoner is...
Thieves Like Us
1974
as Mattie
Three criminals escape from prison and embark on a robbery spree across USA. Along the way, one of them falls in love while they plan a final heist be...
Can Ellen Be Saved?
1974
as Bea Lindsey
A young girl in search of spiritual enlightenment joins a religious cult, and becomes the focus of a struggle between her family and the group.
A Gathering of Eagles
1963
as Mrs. Kemler
Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspect...