She had received the Oscar for the best actress in 1976 for having embodied the tyrannical nurse in the masterpiece of Milos Forman.
Le Monde with AP and AFP
American actress Louise Fletcher, who had won the Oscar for best actress for her role in the film Flight over a cuckoo nest of Milos Forman (1975), died at the age of 88 years old, American media reported on Friday.
Louise Fletcher, who had two sons, died at her house in Montdurausse in the south of France, according to her agent David Shaul, quoted by The New York Times and the Associated Press agency
His most striking role in nurse Mildred Ratched in Flight above a cuckoo nest, whose main character was interpreted by Jack Nicholson, also earned him the Golden Globe and the Bafta for the best actress .
When she accepted the role of this tyrannical nurse, at more than 40 years old, she did not know that leading actresses, including Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn and Angela Lansbury, had refused the role. “I was the last person to pass the casting,” she confided in an interview of 2004. “It was only half the shooting that I realized that the role had been proposed to others Actresses who did not want to appear so horrible on the screen. “
” it looks like you had hated me “
Adapted from a novel by Ken Kesey, theft above a cuckoo nest has become the first film since New York-Miami (1934) by Frank Capra to win the Oscar for best film, for best director , best actor, best actress and best scenario.
“It looks like you had hated me all,” she said by receiving the Oscar for best actress in 1976 . She then used sign language to thank her parents, both deaf: “To my mother and my father, I mean thank you for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true. “
The actress then played in films like The Player by Robert Altman or the Exorcist 2. But Louise Fletcher was also a figure of American television, turning in series like the incorruptible or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She was appointed to the Emmy Awards for her roles in the TV series Picket Fells (1996) and Joan of Arcadia (2004).