ER's Alex Kingston to Play Nurse Ratched in the West End's Cuckoo's Nest

Alex Kingston will play Nurse Ratched opposite Christian Slater's Randle McMurphy in the upcoming West End revival of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Kingston is best known in America for playing Dr. Elizabeth Corday on the series ER. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing in productions of Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Love's Labour's Lost, The Curse of the Starving Class and The Bright and Bold Design. Her Birmingham Repertory credits include Othello, The Alchemist, Traveling Players, Saved, Julius Caesar and See How They Run. In addition to ER, her small screed credits include the PBS miniseries Moll Flanders, A Killing Exchange, The Bill, Crocodile Shoes, The Knock, I Hate Christmas, Weapons of Mass Distraction, The Infiltrator and the recent television remake of The Poseidon Adventure. Her feature film credits include Croupier, Essex Boys, Carrington, The St. Exupery Story, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Curran's Wife, The Wildcats of St. Trinian's, A Pin for the Butterfly, The Woman and the Wolf and This Space Between Us.

Dale Wasserman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, based on the novel by Ken Kesey, tells the story of a mental hospital and its inhabitants. When brash new inmate Randle P. McMurphy Slater arrives, the rigid program of the ward, headed by the tyrannical Nurse Ratched Kingston, is thrown up for grabs.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, directed by Terry Johnson, is set to begin performances at the Garrick Theatre on March 21.