Micheline Lanctôt
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.
Born: 12 May 1947
Played In
Les oubliés
Rose
Where Souls Go
Louise
À la lumière du soir
Self
You Are Not Alone
Lucy
Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
Self
Martin Matte en direct
Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien)
The Nature of Love
Madeleine
Frontiers
Angèle Messier
À cœur battant
Édith Leclerc
STAT
Josette Harvey
Arlette
Présidente de la chambre
Arsenault and Fils
Irène
Le temps des framboises
Martha Conley
39-45 en sol canadien
Self
L'autre midi à la table d'à côté
À tour de rôles
Self - Main Guest
Laughter
Jeanne
Toute la vie
Édith Leclerc
On va se le dire
Self
Bonsoir bonsoir!
Self
Zone franche
Self
L'effet Wow
Self
Les invisibles
Micheline Lanctôt
Cette année-là
Self
Pour emporter
Self
Les poilus
Self
The Devil's Share
Self (archive footage)
Winter Claire
Mère de Claire
The Disappearance
Lieutenant-Detective Susan Bowden
Ravenous
Pauline
Dans les médias
Self
Y'a du monde à messe
Self
Fatale-Station
Jean O'Gallagher
Boundaries
Nitro Rush
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
Self
Esprit critique
Self
Esprit critique
Self - Collaborator
My Internship in Canada
Mairesse de St-Philémon
Early Winter
Lucille
Beauté fatale
Self
The Yellows
Nel
Maternel
Viens-tu faire un tour?
Self
En mode Salvail
Self
On passe à l'Histoire
Self
Deux hommes en or
Self
The Yellows
Nel
Sarah Prefers to Run
Entraîneure McGill
Unite 9
Élise Beaupré
Pour l'amour de Dieu
Léonie (62 ans)
Good Neighbours
Mme. Gauthier
Score
Ça finit bien la semaine
Self
Les Enfants de la télé
Self
J'ai la mémoire qui tourne
Suzie
Suzie
Les Appendices
Self
Club social
Self
Happiness Bound
Curieux Bégin
Self
Les p'tites vues
Self
A Year in the Death of Jack Richards
Julie Duceppe
Familia
Madeleine
Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
Happiness is a Sad Song
Chauffeur (Autobus)
The Barbarian Invasions
Nurse Carole
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
Mère
Viens voir les comédiens
Self
Bunker, le cirque
Lise Langlois
Heaven
Veuve #1
The Long Winter
Rose-Aimee Bouchard
Le Polock
: Aurore Langlois
Now or Never
Arlette
Streetheart
The Revenge of the Woman in Black
The Director
Heads or Tails
Huissier Saisibec
L'oreille d'un sourd
Les héritiers Duval
Ruth
The Coffin Affair
A Scream from Silence
La monteuse
Blood & Guts
Lucky Brown
Blood Relatives
Mrs Carella
Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
Odette
Child Under a Leaf
The Friend
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Yvette
Voyage to Grand Tartarie
Noël et Juliette
Monique
The Heavenly Bodies
Sweetie
Souris, tu m'inquiètes
The True Nature of Bernadette
Bernadette