In Netflix’s The Good Nurse, Jessica Chastain plays Amy Loughren, the real-life nurse who helped stop serial killer Charles Cullen from adding to his long list of victims: all patients at the various hospitals he worked at.
As viewers see in the film, which premiered Oct. 26, Cullen (played by Eddie Redmayne) used his position as a nurse to secretly murder patients with fatal doses of medications such as insulin and digoxin.
Does Amy Loughren Have Kids?
Amy Loughren was born on May 1965 which makes her 57years of age. Amy Loughren was married to her ex-husband Richard Rich Loughren. The former couple shares a child named Alex Loughren.
From 1988 to 2003, Cullen killed at least 29 confirmed victims — but journalist Charles Graeber, who wrote the book about the case, has reported that investigators close to the case believe he’s actually killed several hundred.
Loughren had befriended Cullen, her co-worker, before realizing what he was doing. Once she did, she worked with authorities to get a confession from Cullen that ultimately led to his conviction