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Louise Fletcher (born July 22, 1934) is an United
States|American actress. Born in Birmingham,
Alabama to deaf parents, she was taught to speak
by a hearing aunt, who also introduced her to
acting. After attending the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North
Carolina, she traveled to Los Angeles, California,
where she found work as a secretary by day and
took acting lessons by night. She began appearing
in several television productions, but married and
took time off to raise a family.

In 1974, she returned to film in Thieves Like Us.
Milos Forman saw her, and cast her as McMurphy's
nemesis Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest, for which she won the Academy Award
for Best Actress. She also appeared in such films
as The Cheap Detective, Exorcist II: The Heretic,
Firestarter, Brainstorm (1983 movie)|Brainstorm,
Flowers in the Attic and as Sebastian's aunt in
Cruel Intentions.

Fletcher was nominated for an Emmy Award for her
recurring role on the television series Picket
Fences. She also had a continuing role in Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine as the scheming double-faced
Bajoran religious leader Kai Winn|Kai Winn Adami.

==External links==
* imdb name|id=0001221|name=Louise Fletcher
* http://www.littlereview.com/goddesslouise Louise
Fletcher Appreciation Page