Louise Fletcher

• Birthplace: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
• Birthday: July 22, 1934

You won't find Louise Fletcher complaining about roles for women. This hard-working actress began in TV in the late 1950s and early 60s but had been away from the business for more than a decade raising her two sons when her friendship with Robert Altman led to her feature debut in the director's "Thieves Like Us" (1974). Though she lost the part modeled on herself to Lily Tomlin in Altman's "Nashville" (1975), she scored her greatest success that year, winning the Best Actress Oscar as the cold, dictatorial Nurs…more