TABLE OF CONTENTS
Awards
Career
Further Readings
Personal Information
Works

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born: July 22, 1934 (some sources say 1936), in Birmingham, AL; daughter of Robert Capers Fletcher; married Jerry Bick (a producer; marriage ended); children: two sons.
Education: University of North Carolina, B.A., 1957; studied acting with Jeff Corey.
Memberships: Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
Addresses: Home--Los Angeles, CA.

AWARDS
Academy Award, best actress, and Golden Globe Award, best actress in a dramatic film, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, both 1976, for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
L.H.D. degree, Gallaudet University, 1982, and Western Maryland College, 1986; D.D.L. degree, North Carolina State University.

CAREER
Actress. Deafness Research Foundation, member of board of directors, 1980--; National Institute of Deafness and Other Communicable Disorders, member of advisory board; Caption Center, member of advisory board.

WORKS

Credits; Film Appearances:

• Mattie, Thieves Like Us, United Artists (UA), 1974.
  
• Nurse Mildred Ratched, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, UA, 1975.
  
• Midge, Russian Roulette, Avco-Embassy, 1975.
  
• Dr. Gene Tuskin, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Warner Bros., 1977.
  
• Marlene Duchard, The Cheap Detective, Columbia, 1978.
  
• Miriam Steward, Natural Enemies, Cinema V, 1979.
  
• Anna Sage, The Lady in Red (also known as Guns, Sin, and Bathtub Gin), New World, 1979.
  
• Emilia, The Magician of Lublin, Cannon, 1979.
  
• Loes Bakker, The Lucky Star, Tele-Metropole Internationale, 1980.
  
• Mamma Dracula/Countess Elizabeth Bathory, Mamma Dracula, Union Generale Cinematographique, 1980.
  
• Barbara Moorhead, Dead Kids (also known as Strange Behavior), South Street, 1981.
  
• Richard's mother, Talk to Me, Atlantic Releasing, 1982.
  
• Lillian Reynolds, Brainstorm, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)/UA, 1983.
  
• Mrs. Benjamin, Strange Invaders, Orion, 1983.
  
• Overnight Sensation, 1983.
  
• Norma Manders, Firestarter, Universal, 1984.
  
• Once Upon a Time in America, Warner Bros., 1984.
  
• Dr. Granada, The Boy Who Could Fly, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1986.
  
• Mrs. McKeltch, Invaders from Mars, Cannon, 1986.
  
• Pearl, Nobody's Fool, Island, 1986.
  
• Grandmother, Flowers in the Attic, New World, 1987.
  
• Belle, Two Moon Junction, Lorimar, 1988.
  
• Mrs. Grady, Best of the Best, Taurus, 1989.
  
• Shirley Turner, Blue Steel, MGM/UA/Vestron, 1990.
  
• Dr. Erhardt, Shadowzone, Paramount, 1990.
  
• Virginia Taylor, Blind Vision, Worldvision Home Video, 1992.
  
• As herself, The Player, Fine Line, 1992.
  
• Grandma Belle, Return to Two Moon Junction, Trimark Pictures, 1994.
  
• Maggie Tyler, Tryst, Orion, 1994.
  
• Lillian, Tollbooth, 1994.
  
• Innkeeper, Giorgino, 1994.
  
• Elizabeth Deane, Virtuosity, Paramount, 1995.
  
• Evelyn, 2 Days in the Valley, MGM/UA, 1996.
  
• Frankenstein and Me, Trimark Pictures, 1996.
  
• Evelyn Doyle, High School High, Sony Pictures, 1996.

Credits; Television Appearances; Series, Except Where Indicated:

• Genelva McPherson, The Boys of Twilight, CBS, 1992.
  
• Sarge, The Fire Next Time (miniseries), CBS, 1993.
  
• Nora Bloom, VR.5 (also known as Avenging Angel and Virtual Reality), Fox, 1995.
  
• Appeared as Jean Taylor in the miniseries In a Child's Name, 1991.

Credits; Television Appearances; Movies:

• Bea Lindsey, Can Ellen Be Saved? (also known as Children of God), ABC, 1974.
  
• Sally Kimball, Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery, NBC, 1978.
  
• Sadie Bishop, Second Serve, CBS, 1986.
  
• Dr. Dolly McKeever, A Summer to Remember..., CBS, 1986.
  
• Annie M. Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover (also known as Hoover), Showtime, 1987.
  
• Mrs. Lord, Final Notice, USA, 1989.
  
• Agnes Carpenter, The Karen Carpenter Story (also known as A Song for You), CBS, 1989.
  
• Letti Gordon, Nightmare on the 13th Floor, USA, 1990.
  
• Faye, Someone Else's Child (also known as Lost and Found), ABC, 1994.
  
• Dorothy, The Haunting of Sea Cliff Inn, USA, 1994.
  
• Mariam Benton, The Stepford Husbands, CBS, 1996.
  
• Edie and Pen, HBO, 1996.
  
• Also appeared in the movie Island, 1984.

Credits; Television Appearances; Specials:

• Cynthia Dammond, Last Waltz on a Tightrope, PBS, 1986.
  
• The American Film Institute Salute to Jack Nicholson, CBS, 1994.

Credits; Television Appearances; Episodic:

• "Try Not to Remember," Dream On, HBO, 1990.
  
• "Top Billing," Tales from the Crypt, HBO, 1991.
  
• Appeared in "The Dead Man," an episode of The Ray Bradbury Theatre, 1987; also appeared in episodes of Twilight Zone, 1988, The Hitchhiker, 1990, Civil Wars, 1993, Deep Space Nine, 1994, 1995, Playhouse 90, CBS, Maverick, ABC, Wagon Train, The Lawman, The Millionaire, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.