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Louise Fletcher (born July 22, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Kai_Winn Adami of Star Trek Deep Space 9. ... Kai_Winn Adami of Star Trek Deep Space 9. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Space station Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 or STDS9 or DS9 for short) is a science fiction television series produced by Paramount and set in the Star Trek universe. ... July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. ...


Born in Birmingham, Alabama to a minister and his wife, both deaf, she was taught to speak by a hearing aunt, who also introduced her to acting. Flag Seal Nickname: The Magic City, Pittsburgh of the South, BHam, The Ham Location Location in Jefferson County in the state of Alabama Coordinates , Government Country State County United States Alabama Jefferson County Mayor Bernard Kincaid (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 151. ...


After attending the 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. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ... Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government Country State County United States California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ...


She began appearing in several television productions, but married Jerry Bick and took time off to raise her 2 children; she eventually divorced Bick, who died in 2004.


In 1974, she returned to film in Thieves Like Us. Miloš Forman saw her, and cast her (possibly because of her height and bearing) as McMurphy's nemesis Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, for which she won the Oscar for Best Actress. She also appeared in such films as The Cheap Detective, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Firestarter, Brainstorm, Flowers in the Attic and as Sebastian's aunt in Cruel Intentions. Thieves Like Us is a single by British group New Order, released in April 1984 by Factory Records. ... Wax figure of MiloÅ¡ Forman at Prague wax museum Jan Tomáš Forman (born February 18, 1932), better known as MiloÅ¡ Forman, is a film director, actor and script writer. ... Mildred Ratched, best known as Nurse Ratched, is a fictional character from Ken Keseys 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. ... One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is a 1975 film directed by MiloÅ¡ Forman. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The Cheap Detective is a 1978 spoof comedy movie, written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore as a follow-up to their successful Murder By Death. ... Exorcist II: The Heretic is a 1977 American horror film and the sequel to The Exorcist. ... FireStarter (Japanese ファイスタ Fai Suta) is the second episode of the anime FLCL. Spoiler warning: Summary The Episode starts out with Mamimi playing some handheld videogame about burning stuff to please a dark god Cantide. ... Brainstorm is a 1983 MGM horror/thriller/science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull and starring Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood (in her last film appearance). ... Flowers in the Attic is a 1979 novel by V.C. Andrews, deeply controversial because of its themes of incest, child abuse, neglect, and other taboo subjects. ... Movie Poster for Cruel Intentions Cecile Caldwell (Selma Blair) Cruel Intentions is a 1999 film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Selma Blair and Reese Witherspoon. ...


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 Adami. An Emmy Award. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Picket Fences was a 60-minute drama which ran from 1992 to 1996 on the CBS television network in the United States. ... Space station Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 or STDS9 or DS9 for short) is a science fiction television series produced by Paramount and set in the Star Trek universe. ... Kira Nerys Bajorans, a race of humanoids in the fictional Star Trek universe, were introduced in the Next Generation series and played an integral part in the Deep Space Nine series. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


She stands at 5'9 1/2" (1.77 m).


Premature obituary

In early January 2006, IMDB issued a premature obituary alleging that Louise Fletcher had died in Las Vegas of a heart attack, however there was no other evidence from any source or in any news reporting agency that she had died. It seems IMDB jumped the gun and it was another person of the same name who had died. The premature obituary was removed from Fletcher's IMDB page shortly thereafter. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) [1] is an online database of information about actors, movies, television shows, television stars and video games. ... This article is about the city of Las Vegas in Nevada. ... A myocardial infarction occurs when an atherosclerotic plaque slowly builds up in the inner lining of a coronary artery and then suddenly ruptures, totally occluding the artery and preventing blood flow downstream. ...

Preceded by:
Ellen Burstyn
for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Academy Award for Best Actress
1975
for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Succeeded by:
Faye Dunaway
for Network

Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932 as Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ... Alice is a 1974 film which tells the story of a widow who moves with her young son to Tucson, Arizona to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a diner. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is a 1975 film directed by Miloš Forman. ... Faye Dunaway at Cannes, 2001 Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941, in Bascom, Florida) is an Academy Award-winning actress. ... Network is a 1976 satirical film about a fictional television network named Union Broadcasting System (UBS) and its struggle with poor TV ratings. ...

External links

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Louise wanted to be a classical ballet dancer when younger and was very athletic, until she started acting full-time.
Louise was given the Legend award for her career on April 16, 2005.
Louise Fletcher: My interest in acting was overwhelming, but I wasn't thinking, "I'm going to California and I'm going to become a movie star." Things were different then.
Louise Fletcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (338 words)
Louise Fletcher (born July 22, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American actress.
Fletcher was nominated for an Emmy Award for her recurring role on the television series Picket Fences.
In early January 2006, IMDB issued a premature obituary alleging that Louise Fletcher had died in Las Vegas of a heart attack, however there was no other evidence from any source or in any news reporting agency that she had died.
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