Louise Fletcher Wiki Biography

Estelle Louise Fletcher was born on 22 July 1934, in Birmingham, Alabama USA, and is an actress, known for her Academy Award-winning career. She’s been active in the industry since 1958. Some of her most popular works include Robert Altman’s “Thieves Like Us”, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, and “Flowers in the Attic”. All of her efforts have helped put her net worth to where it is today.

How rich is Louise Fletcher? As of mid-2017, sources inform us of a net worth that is at $1 million, mostly earned through a successful career in acting; other awards she’s won include a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award. She also received Emmy nominations for her career on television. All of these achievements have ensured the position of her wealth.

Louise Fletcher Net Worth $1 million

Louise was born into a family with deaf parents, but she along with her siblings did not have any hearing loss problems. She was taught by an aunt to speak, and her aunt also introduced her to acting. She attended the University of North Carolina, and after graduating went to Los Angeles where she worked as a secretary, and took acting lessons by night.

In 1958, she started appearing in various television series ,such as “Lawman” and “Maverick”. The following year, she appeared in the original “Untouchables” TV series, as a guest in one episode. She also made a guest appearance in “Perry Mason”, and in 1960 was cast in the western television series “Tate” as Roberta McConnell. After just doing a single major film in the 1960s, she returned to film in 1974 with “Thieves Like Us”, directed by Robert Altman. This started to increase her net worth and opened more opportunities for her. She was cast in “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” as Nurse Ratched, and the film gained her recognition internationally, winning her an Academy Award for Best Actress, plus a BAFTA and Golden Globe Award.

She then had mixed success; she had several critically and financially successful films while there were also other projects which were failures. Some of her more popular roles during this time included “Exorcist II: The Heretic”, “The Lady in Red”, “Firestarter” and “Invaders from Mars”. Other films she had from the 1980s to the 1990s included “Two Moon Junction”, “Blue Steel”, and “Cruel Intentions” in which she played Sebastian’s Aunt. In 2005, she appeared in the film “Aurora Borealis” alongside Joshua Jackson.

Over the course of her career, she has also appeared in a lot of television movies, including “The Karen Carpenter Story”, and “Nightmare on the 13th Floor”. She had a recurring role in “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” as the Bajoran, Kai Winn Adami. She also had Emmy Award nominations for her performances in “Picket Fences” and “Joan of Arcadia”. In 2009, she was cast in the NBC series “Heroes”, while one of her latest projects on television is “Shameless”.

For her personal life, it is known that Louise married producer Jerry Bick in 1960 and their marriage lasted until 1977. They had two sons, and Fletcher took a break from acting to raise her sons. She has apparently remained single since then.



Full Name Louise Fletcher
Net Worth $1 Million
Date Of Birth July 22, 1934
Place Of Birth Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Height 1.78 m
Profession Actress
Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nationality American
Spouse Jerry Bick (m. 1959–1978)
Children John Dashiell Bick, Andrew Wilson Bick
Parents Estelle Caldwell, Robert Capers Fletcher
Siblings Georgianna Fletcher, Roberta Fletcher, John Fletcher
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001221/
Awards Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Satellite Mary Pickford Award
Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Movies One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Cruel Intentions, Brainstorm, Thieves Like Us, Exorcist II: The Heretic, The Cheap Detective, High School High, Two Moon Junction, Flowers in the Attic, Firestarter, A Dennis the Menace Christmas, Virtuosity, Big Eden, Strange Behavior, Best of the Best, The Last Sin…
TV Shows VR.5, The Boys of Twilight
Quote
1 [2012, on why she can no longer bear to watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)] I find it too painful. It comes with age. I can’t watch movies that are inhumane. I was really shocked in those scenes where I was actually so cruel.
2 She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.
3 If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.
4 From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn’t tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.
5 I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn’t have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That’s the way Southern girls thought.
6 Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right.
7 Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.
8 That’s the main reason I gave up my career after John was born and I was pregnant with Andrew. I could not handle going away day after day. The thought of going away before they got up and coming back after they were in bed was intolerable.
9 The Communist Party was my Nurse Ratched! [Milos Forman, in Milos Forman: Co te nezabije… (2009)].
10 [In sign language to her deaf parents, upon winning the Oscar for Best Actress] I want to thank you for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.
11 Milos Forman doesn’t want to discuss anything with his actors.
Fact
1 Is one of 11 actresses who won the Best Actress Oscar for a move that also won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)). The others are Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night (1934), Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939), Greer Garson for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment (1983), Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Jodie Foster for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby (2004).
2 Gave birth to her 1st child at age 26, a son John R. Bick in April 1961. Child’s father is her [now ex] husband, Jerry Bick.
3 Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 28, a son Andrew Wilson Bick in December 1962. Child’s father is her [now ex] husband, Jerry Bick.
4 Was the 77th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) at The 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976) on March 29, 1976.
5 The mother of two sons with Jerry Bick, John Dashiell Bick and Andrew Wilson Bick, for whom she took an 11-year hiatus from acting to raise.
6 She was in several scenes that were later deleted from Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America (1984).
7 One of the other Best Actress nominees in 1976 was Ann-Margret, who was nominated for her role Tommy (1975). Coincidentally, both films featured Jack Nicholson.
8 Her Oscar-winning role as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) was ranked #5 in the American Film Institute’s Villains list in their 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.
9 Was cited for reckless driving in 2000 when she slammed into a police officer near her Virginia home.
10 Her role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) had been turned down by Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Colleen Dewhurst and Jane Fonda. Bancroft and Dewhurst turned down the role because they found it anti-feminist and downright misogynistic.
11 After her divorce from producer Jerry Bick in the late 1970s she caused a stir when she, then in her 40s, began dating 21-year-old Morgan Mason, the son of actor James Mason.
12 Was a leading choice to play the mother in Terms of Endearment (1983).
13 Lily Tomlin’s role in Robert Altman’s Nashville (1975) was originally written for, and in part by, Fletcher, whose then-husband had been Altman’s producer. When the two men had a falling-out, Altman chose to cast Tomlin instead.
14 Learned sign language at a very young age, as both of her parents were deaf. When Fletcher neared the end of her (spoken) Best Actress Oscar acceptance speech for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), she finished with a unique (unspoken) touch in American Sign Language: “For my mother and my father, I want to say thank you for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true. Thank you.” (29 March 1976).

Actress

Title Year Status Character
Nobody’s Fool 1986 Pearl
The Boy Who Could Fly 1986 Dr. Granada. Psychiatrist
Invaders from Mars 1986 Mrs. McKeltch
Second Serve 1986 TV Movie Dr. Sadie M. Bishop
Last Waltz on a Tightrope 1986 TV Movie Cynthia Damond
A Summer to Remember 1985 TV Movie Dr. Dolly McKeever
Islands 1984 TV Movie Maureen Davis
Overnight Sensation 1984 Short Eve Peregrine – ‘E.K. Hamilton’
Firestarter 1984 Norma Manders
Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Cemetery Director (uncredited)
Talk to Me 1984 Richard’s mother
Brainstorm 1983 Lillian Reynolds
Strange Invaders 1983 Mrs. Benjamin
Grizzly II: The Concert 1983 Eileene Draygon
Strange Behavior 1981 Barbara Moorehead
Mama Dracula 1980 Mama Dracula
The Lucky Star 1980 Loes Bakker
Natural Enemies 1979 Miriam Steward
The Magician of Lublin 1979 Emilia
The Lady in Red 1979 Anna Sage
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery 1978 TV Movie Sally Kimball
The Cheap Detective 1978 Marlene DuChard
Exorcist II: The Heretic 1977 Dr. Gene Tuskin
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975 Nurse Ratched
Russian Roulette 1975 Midge
Thieves Like Us 1974 Mattie
Can Ellen Be Saved? 1974 TV Movie Bea Lindsey
Medical Center 1973 TV Series
A Gathering of Eagles 1963 Mrs. Kemler
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp 1961 TV Series Aithra McLowery
The Best of the Post 1961 TV Series
Perry Mason 1960 TV Series Susan Connolly / Gladys Doyle
Tate 1960 TV Series Roberta McConnell
Sugarfoot 1960 TV Series Julie Frazer
The Millionaire 1960 TV Series Holly
Wagon Train 1959-1960 TV Series Elizabeth / Martha English
Markham 1959 TV Series Ellen Amery
One Step Beyond 1959 TV Series Jeannie
The Untouchables 1959 TV Series Eloise
77 Sunset Strip 1959 TV Series Julia Maltby
Maverick 1959 TV Series Kathy Bent
Lawman 1959 TV Series Betty Horgan
Yancy Derringer 1958 TV Series Miss Nellie / Alithea
Bat Masterson 1958 TV Series Sarah Lou Conant
Playhouse 90 1958 TV Series Pete’s Girl
Flight 1958 TV Series
A Perfect Man 2013 Abbie
And Out, Into the Bright Blue Sky 2012 Short voice
Of Two Minds 2012 TV Movie Aunt Will
Shameless 2011-2012 TV Series Peg Gallagher
Bad Girls 2012 TV Movie
Mistaken Identity 2011 Short
Rewired 2011 Short
Cassadaga 2011 Claire
Private Practice 2010-2011 TV Series Frances Wilder
The Genesis Code 2010 Ellen Taylor
Heroes 2009 TV Series Dr. Coolidge
A Dennis the Menace Christmas 2007 Video Mrs. Martha Wilson
The Last Sin Eater 2007 Miz Elda
A Dad for Christmas 2006 TV Movie Glennie
Fat Rose and Squeaky 2006 Bonnie
Dancing in Twilight 2005 Evelyn
ER 2005 TV Series Roberta ‘Birdie’ Chadwick
7th Heaven 2005 TV Series Mrs. Wagner
Aurora Borealis 2005 Ruth Shorter
Wonderfalls 2004 TV Series Vivian Caldwell
Clipping Adam 2004 Grammy
Joan of Arcadia 2004 TV Series Eva Garrison
It’s All Relative 2004 TV Series ER Nurse
A Time to Remember 2003 TV Movie Billy Calhoun
Finding Home 2003 Esther
Silver Man 2003 Val
Manna from Heaven 2002 Mother Superior
Touched by a Killer 2001 Judge Erica Robertson
After Image 2001 Aunt Cora
Any Day Now 2000 TV Series Tillie Simms
More Dogs Than Bones 2000 Iva Doll
Very Mean Men 2000 Katherine Mulroney
Big Eden 2000 Grace Cornwell
A Map of the World 1999 Nellie Goodwin
Time Served 1999 TV Movie Warden Mildred Reinecke
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 1993-1999 TV Series Kai Winn Vedek Winn
The Devil’s Arithmetic 1999 TV Movie Aunt Eva
Cruel Intentions 1999 Helen Rosemond
The Contract 1999/II Grandma Collins
Brimstone 1998 TV Series Evelyn McNabb
Fantasy Island 1998 TV Series Doris Leeman
Love Kills 1998 Alena Heiss
The Practice 1998 TV Series Judge N. Swanson
Johnny 316 1998
Profiler 1998 TV Series Miriam Newquay, Jack’s Mother
Breast Men 1997 TV Movie Mrs. Saunders
Heartless 1997 TV Movie Aunt Lydia McGuffy
Married to a Stranger 1997 TV Movie Nana, Megan’s Mother
Sins of the Mind 1997 TV Movie Dr. Anna Bingham
The Girl Gets Moe 1997 Gloria
Gone Fishin’ 1997 Restaurant Owner (uncredited)
VR.5 1995-1997 TV Series Mrs. Nora Bloom
High School High 1996 Principal Evelyn Doyle
2 Days in the Valley 1996 Evelyn
Frankenstein and Me 1996 Mrs. Perdue
The Stepford Husbands 1996 TV Movie Miriam Benton
Edie & Pen 1996 Judge
Mulholland Falls 1996 Esther (uncredited)
Picket Fences 1996 TV Series Christine Bey
Virtuosity 1995 Elizabeth Deane
Dream On 1995 TV Series Joanna
Return to Two Moon Junction 1995 Belle Delongpre
Someone Else’s Child 1994 TV Movie Faye Maddox
Tryst 1994 Maggie
Tollbooth 1994 Lillian
Giorgino 1994 Innkeeper
The Haunting of Seacliff Inn 1994 TV Movie Dorothy O’Hara
On Deadly Ground 1994 Bartender (uncredited)
The Fire Next Time 1993 TV Mini-Series Sarge
Civil Wars 1992 TV Series Judge Frances Wyler
The Ray Bradbury Theater 1992 TV Series Miss Weldon
Blind Vision 1992 Miss Taylor
The Player 1992 Louise Fletcher
The Boys of Twilight 1992 TV Series Genelva
In a Child’s Name 1991 TV Mini-Series Jean Taylor
Tales from the Crypt 1991 TV Series Agent
The Hitchhiker 1991 TV Series Mother Birch
Nightmare on the 13th Floor 1990 TV Movie Letti Gordon
Shadowzone 1990 Dr. Erhardt
In the Heat of the Night 1990 TV Series Catherine Tyler
Blue Steel 1990 Shirley Turner
Final Notice 1989 TV Movie Mrs. Lord
Best of the Best 1989 Mrs. Grady
The Karen Carpenter Story 1989 TV Movie Agnes Carpenter
The Twilight Zone 1988 TV Series Dr. Cline
Worlds Beyond 1988 TV Series Karen Earl
Two Moon Junction 1988 Belle Delongpre
Flowers in the Attic 1987 Grandmother
J. Edgar Hoover 1987 TV Movie Annie M. Hoover

Thanks

Title Year Status Character
Completely Cuckoo 1997 Video documentary special thanks
The Boy Who Could Fly 1986 special thanks

Self

Title Year Status Character
Milos Forman, un outsider 2012 Documentary Herself
Il était une fois… 2011 TV Series documentary Herself
Milos Forman: Co te nezabije… 2009 Documentary Herself
Biography 2004 TV Series documentary Herself
AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Heroes & Villains 2003 TV Special documentary Herself
The 75th Annual Academy Awards 2003 TV Special Herself – Past Winner
The 70th Annual Academy Awards 1998 TV Special Herself – Past Winner (uncredited)
Completely Cuckoo 1997 Video documentary Herself
Late Night with Conan O’Brien 1995 TV Series Herself – Guest
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Jack Nicholson 1994 TV Special Herself
One on One with John Tesh 1992 TV Series Herself – Guest
Sois belle et tais-toi 1981 Documentary Herself
The Muppets Go Hollywood 1979 TV Special Herself (uncredited)
The Hollywood Squares 1978 TV Series Guest Appearance
The 50th Annual Academy Awards 1978 TV Special Herself – Past Winner
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda 1978 TV Special documentary Herself (uncredited)
The 49th Annual Academy Awards 1977 TV Special Herself – Presenter: Best Actress in a Leading Role
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Bette Davis 1977 TV Special documentary Herself (uncredited)
TVTV Looks at the Academy Awards 1976 TV Special documentary Herself
The Mike Douglas Show 1976 TV Series Herself – Actress
The 48th Annual Academy Awards 1976 TV Special Herself – Winner: Best Actress in a Leading Role
Dinah! 1976 TV Series Herself – Guest

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Won Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2015 Mary Pickford Award Satellite Awards
2012 OFTA Television Award Online Film & Television Association Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series Shameless (2011)
2005 Legend in Film Award Palm Beach International Film Festival
1999 OFTA Television Award Online Film & Television Association Best Guest Actress in a Syndicated Series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
1998 OFTA Television Award Online Film & Television Association Best Guest Actress in a Syndicated Series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
1997 OFTA Television Award Online Film & Television Association Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
1997 OFTA Television Award Online Film & Television Association Best Guest Actress in a Syndicated Series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
1984 Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Best Actress Brainstorm (1983)
1977 BAFTA Film Award BAFTA Awards Best Actress One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
1976 Oscar Academy Awards, USA Best Actress in a Leading Role One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
1976 Golden Globe Golden Globes, USA Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

Nominated Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2012 Gold Derby TV Award Gold Derby Awards Drama Guest Actress Shameless (2011)
2007 Movies for Grownups Award AARP Movies for Grownups Awards Best Grownup Love Story Aurora Borealis (2005)
2004 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Joan of Arcadia (2003)
1999 OFTA Television Award Online Film & Television Association Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
1998 Golden Satellite Award Satellite Awards Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television Breast Men (1997)
1996 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Picket Fences (1992)
1988 Saturn Award Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA Best Supporting Actress Flowers in the Attic (1987)
1987 Razzie Award Razzie Awards Worst Supporting Actress Invaders from Mars (1986)

2nd Place Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1975 NYFCC Award New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Supporting Actress One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

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