Best-known for starring in the classic film 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' alongside Jack Nicholson, Louisa Moritz was a talented and much-loved Cuban-American actress. She was born in Havana as Luisa Cira Castro Netto in 1946 and changed her name when she left Cuba and moved to New York City. As a distant relative of Fidel Castro, she wanted to remove any association, so she named herself after the Hotel St. Moritz in New York City.
In 2014, long after her acting career had ended, Moritz found herself in some unpleasant limelight as one of the first women to speak out against Bill Cosby - she accused him of sexually assaulting her back in 1971. Sadly, Moritz passed away on January 4, 2019. She was injured in a fall and died of natural causes in a Los Angeles hospice.