Micheline Lanctôt (born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.
Micheline Lanctôt (born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.
Lanctôt was born in Frelighsburg, Quebec. Her post-secondary education was in music, fine arts, and theatre at Collège Jésus-Marie in Outremont, and in art history at the Université de Montréal and the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal; she later studied film animation at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and then at Gerald Potterton's studios, Potterton Productions, where she remained for four years.
Lanctôt began her acting career in 1972, winning a Canadian Film Award for Best Actress for her starring role in Gilles Carle's The True Nature of Bernadette (La vraie nature de Bernadette). Since then, she has appeared in a wide variety of film and television roles, such as Carle's The Heavenly Bodies (Les Corps Célestes), Ted Kotcheff's award-winning The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Claude Chabrol's Blood Relatives and Guy Fournier's Radio-Canada TV series Jamais deux sans toi.
She has directed for the theatre also, directing Oleanna by David Mamet for the Théâtre de Quat'Sous in Montreal in 1994, and in 1999, Bousille et les justes by Gratien Gélinas for the Théâtre du Rideau Vert.
She began her live-action film-directing career with The Handyman (L'Homme à tout faire) (1980), nominated for best direction and for best film at the Genie Awards in 1981. This success was followed by Sonatine (1984), which launched the career of Pascale Bussières and won both the Genie Award for Best Director at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985, and the now-defunct Silver Lion for Best First Film (1983-1987) at the 41st Venice International Film Festival.
Since 1982, Lanctôt has been a part-time instructor in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University.
Lanctôt defended Gaétan Soucy's novel The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) in the 2004 edition of Le Combat des livres, broadcast on Première Chaîne.
In 2016 she was the curator of the Festival Vues dans la tête de... film festival in Rivière-du-Loup. She is also a matron of the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois, an annual program engaging film studies students in Quebec CEGEPs to present an award for the year's best Quebec film.
External links
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Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3311377
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Filmography (Movies)
Where Souls Go
Character:Louise
Release Date:14/11/2025
Les oubliés
Character:Rose
Release Date:11/11/2025
À la lumière du soir
Character:Self
Release Date:17/03/2025
You Are Not Alone
Character:Lucy
Release Date:12/12/2024
The Nature of Love
Character:Madeleine
Release Date:22/09/2023
Frontiers
Character:Angèle Messier
Release Date:03/03/2023
Arlette
Character:Présidente de la chambre
Release Date:05/08/2022
Arsenault and Fils
Character:Irène
Release Date:17/06/2022
Laughter
Character:Jeanne
Release Date:31/01/2020
The Devil's Share
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:16/02/2018
Winter Claire
Character:Mère de Claire
Release Date:11/10/2017
Ravenous
Character:Pauline
Release Date:23/09/2017
Boundaries
Character:
Release Date:18/11/2016
Nitro Rush
Character:
Release Date:31/08/2016
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
Character:Self
Release Date:18/07/2016
My Internship in Canada
Character:Mairesse de St-Philémon
Release Date:02/10/2015
Early Winter
Character:Lucille
Release Date:12/08/2015
The Yellows
Character:Nel
Release Date:03/08/2014
Maternel
Character:
Release Date:06/06/2014
Sarah Prefers to Run
Character:Entraîneure McGill
Release Date:21/05/2013
Pour l'amour de Dieu
Character:Léonie (62 ans)
Release Date:02/09/2011
Good Neighbours
Character:Mme. Gauthier
Release Date:03/06/2011
Score
Character:
Release Date:21/04/2011
Suzie
Character:Suzie
Release Date:17/04/2009
Happiness Bound
Character:
Release Date:28/09/2007
A Year in the Death of Jack Richards
Character:Julie Duceppe
Release Date:02/10/2005
Familia
Character:Madeleine
Release Date:15/09/2005
Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
Character:
Release Date:19/05/2005
Happiness is a Sad Song
Character:Chauffeur (Autobus)
Release Date:11/05/2004
The Barbarian Invasions
Character:Nurse Carole
Release Date:24/09/2003
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
Character:Mère
Release Date:07/02/2003
Heaven
Character:Veuve #1
Release Date:15/03/2000
The Long Winter
Character:Rose-Aimee Bouchard
Release Date:13/03/1999
Now or Never
Character:Arlette
Release Date:16/09/1998
Streetheart
Character:
Release Date:14/09/1998
The Revenge of the Woman in Black
Character:The Director
Release Date:27/03/1997
Heads or Tails
Character:Huissier Saisibec
Release Date:14/03/1997
L'oreille d'un sourd
Character:
Release Date:28/05/1996
Ruth
Character:
Release Date:31/08/1994
The Coffin Affair
Character:
Release Date:10/09/1980
A Scream from Silence
Character:La monteuse
Release Date:14/09/1979
Blood & Guts
Character:Lucky Brown
Release Date:15/09/1978
Blood Relatives
Character:Mrs Carella
Release Date:01/02/1978
Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
Character:Odette
Release Date:08/10/1976
Child Under A Leaf
Character:The Friend
Release Date:11/10/1974
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Character:Yvette
Release Date:11/04/1974
Voyage to Grand Tartarie
Character:
Release Date:06/03/1974
Noël et Juliette
Character:Monique
Release Date:26/12/1973
The Heavenly Bodies
Character:Sweetie
Release Date:20/09/1973
Souris, tu m'inquiètes
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1973
The True Nature of Bernadette
Character:Bernadette
Release Date:06/05/1972
Television Appearances
Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
Character:Self
Martin Matte en direct
Character:Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien)
À cœur battant
Character:Édith Leclerc
STAT
Character:Josette Harvey
Le temps des framboises
Character:Martha Conley
L'autre midi à la table d'à côté
Character:
À tour de rôles
Character:Self - Main Guest
Toute la vie
Character:Édith Leclerc
On va se le dire
Character:Self
Bonsoir bonsoir!
Character:Self
Zone franche
Character:Self
L'effet Wow
Character:Self
Les invisibles
Character:Micheline Lanctôt
Cette année-là
Character:Self
Pour emporter
Character:Self
Les poilus
Character:Self
The Disappearance
Character:Lieutenant-Detective Susan Bowden
Dans les médias
Character:Self
Y'a du monde à messe
Character:Self
Fatale-Station
Character:Jean O'Gallagher
Esprit critique
Character:Self
Esprit critique
Character:Self - Collaborator
Beauté fatale
Character:Self
Viens-tu faire un tour?
Character:Self
En mode Salvail
Character:Self
On passe à l'Histoire
Character:Self
Deux hommes en or
Character:Self
The Yellows
Character:Nel
Unite 9
Character:Élise Beaupré
Ça finit bien la semaine
Character:Self
Les Enfants de la télé
Character:Self
Les Appendices
Character:Self
Club social
Character:Self
Curieux Bégin
Character:Self
Les p'tites vues
Character:Self
Viens voir les comédiens
Character:Self
Bunker, le cirque
Character:Lise Langlois
Le Polock
Character:: Aurore Langlois
Les héritiers Duval
Character:
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