FrameThrower · Actors · Louise Fletcher
Louise Fletcher
3 films · 381 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1974–1986
Born 22 July 1934 · Birmingham, Alabama, USA · died 23 September 2022
Louise Fletcher was an American actress. She was best known for her portrayal of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), which earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. She was also well-known for her recurring role as the Bajoran religious leader Kai Winn Adami in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–99), as well as for her role as Helen Rosemond in the movie Cruel Intentions (1999). She was nominated for two Emmy Awards for her roles in the television series Picket Fences (1996) and Joan of Arcadia (2004). Her final role was as Rosie in the Netflix series Girlboss (2017).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 381 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1974–1986
- Academy Award for Best Actress1976
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Mary Pickford Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 381 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Louise takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 58% of their frames are day, 42% natural — the look of the work Louise takes.
Time of day
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 381 frames from Louise Fletcher's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.