Nurse Ratched is the main antagonist of Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The character was portrayed by Louise Fletcher in the film adaptation. Ratched has become a popular metaphor for the corrupting influence of institutional power and authority in bureaucracies.
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Nurse Ratched is the main antagonist of Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The character was portrayed by Louise Fletcher in the film adaptation, whose performance earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Ratched has become a popular metaphor for the corrupting influence of institutional power and authority in bureaucracies such as the psychiatric treatment center in which the novel is set. A stage adaptation by Dale Wasserman made its debut in 1963 with Joan Tetzel portrayed as Nurse Ratched.
She was portrayed in the ABC series Once Upon a Time and by Ingrid Torrance in the Torrance and Ingrid works for the Queen of Evil series Queen of the Evil. In the Netflix television series Ratched, a prequel to the film, a young Ratched was named the fifth-greatest villain in film history. The first season of the television series debuted September 18, 2020, with Isabelle Jonn Murphy portraying a youngRatched.
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