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Actress, Louise Fletcher, was born Estelle Louise Fletcher on Jul 22, 1934 in Birmingham, AL. As of December 2024, Louise Fletcher was 90 years old.

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Louise Fletcher was an American actress of forthright manner. Born to deaf parents, she acted steadily in TV series during the late 1950s and early 1960s but retired in 1964, re-emerging 10 years later with two excellent film portrayals of treacherous, unsmiling women -- 'Mattie' in "Thieves Like Us" and 'Nurse Ratched' (Best Actress Oscar) in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest".

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).

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Was a leading choice to play the mother in Terms of Endearment (1983).

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.

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.

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