Biography
" The role and subsequent honors were seen by the press as the high point of Fletcher's screen career, since none of the projects that followed, which included "Exorcist II: The Heretic" (1979), "Brainstorm" (1983) and "Invaders from Mars" (1987) matched its box office or critical returns. However, Fletcher worked steadily after "Cuckoo's Nest," earning Emmy nominations for television turns and accepting the notion of "the Oscar curse" with …
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Career Milestones
2006 | Co-starred with Donald Sutherland in the family drama, "Aurora Borealis" | |
2004 | Had a Guest-starring role on CBS' "Joan of Arcadia"; received an Emmy nomination for Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series | |
2001 | Appeared in "AfterImage"; screened at Sundance Film Festival | |
1999 | Acted in "A Map of the World", New York theater director Scott Elliott's feature directing debut | |
1999 | Portrayed Sarah Michelle Gellar's aunt in "Cruel Intentions" | |
1999 | Appeared as Aunt Eva in the absorbing Showtime Holcaust drama "The Devil's Arithmetic" | |
1996 | Had small role in John Herzfeld's "2 Days in the Valley" | |
1996 | Enjoyed her turn as a nasty, authoritarian, almost psycho teacher in "Frankenstein and Me" | |
1996 | Played bat-wielding principal in "High School High" | |
1995 | Had regular role on Fox's short-lived, futuristic "VR.5" | |
1995 | Portrayed crime czar Elizabeth Deane in "Virtuosity", starring Denzel Washington | |
1994 | Reprised Grandma Belle for "Return to Two Moon Junction" | |
1993 | Reteamed with McLoughlin for CBS miniseries "The Fire Next Time" | |
1992 | Played Richard Farnsworth's wife in short-lived CBS series "The Boys of Twilight", a modern Western about aging lawmen in a small Utah town | |
1992 | Appeared in Altman's "The Player" | |
1991 | Excelled as Grandmother battling for the custody of her murderer son's boy in first TV miniseries, "In a Child's Name" (CBS), directed by Tom McLoughlin | |
1989 | Acted the part of Agnes Carpenter in "The Karen Carpenter Story" (CBS) | |
1989 | Reteamed with Roberts for "Best of the Best" | |
1987 | Essayed another grandma in "Flowers in the Attic" | |
1988 | Played Grandma Belle in "Two Moon Junction" | |
1986 | First film with Eric Roberts, "Nobody's Fool" | |
1984 | Appeared in Sergio Leone's epic "Once Upon a Time In America" | |
1983 | Gave standout performance as a research scientist in "Brainstorm", a film marred by the drowning of star Natalie Wood | |
1980 | Starred as "Mamma Dracula", in Leonard Maltin's words "an eternity away from the cuckoo's nest" | |
1977 | Flopped with "Exorcist II: The Heretic" | |
1975 | Gave Oscar-winning performance as Nurse Ratched in Milos Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" | |
1974 | TV-movie debut, "Can Ellen Be Saved?" (ABC) | |
1974 | Returned to acting in feature film debut, Robert Altman's "Thieves Like Us" | |
| Lived in London during the 1960s | ||
| Made guest appearances on TV shows like "The Millionnaire" (CBS) and "77 Sunset Strip" (ABC) during the late 1950s and early 1960s | ||
1958 | TV debut as an extra on "Playhouse 90" | |
| Raised in Alabama | ||
Awards
2004 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress In a Drama Series in Joan of Arcadia |
1996 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress In a Drama Series in Picket Fences |
1976 | BAFTA Award for Actress in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
1975 | Academy Award for Actress in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
1975 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |