Louisa Moritz

Louisa Moritz was a Cuban-American actress and lawyer. Born in Havana, she worked there as an accountant before moving to New York in 1960. She could not speak English at first, so she began with commercials in the 1960s, and her first film came in 1970 with The Man from O.R.G.Y. She usually played ditzy blondes, and her best known part was the prostitute Rose in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). She was a regular on the television show Love, American Style and also appeared on Happy Days. Another credit was The Last American Virgin (1982), where she played Carmela. Later she studied law at Abraham Lincoln University and the University of West Los Angeles, and in 2004 she gained admission to the California Bar. She produced self-defense programs for television.