Micheline Lanctôt

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Frelighsburg, Québec, Canada, 1947-05-12

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	The True Nature of Bernadette	Bernadette	59
2	1973	Souris, tu m'inquiètes		0
3	1973	The Heavenly Bodies	Sweetie	60
4	1973	Noël et Juliette	Monique	57
5	1974	Voyage to Grand Tartarie		0
6	1974	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Yvette	59
7	1974	Child Under A Leaf	The Friend	38
8	1976	Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie	Odette	50
9	1978	Blood Relatives	Mrs Carella	57
10	1978	Blood & Guts	Lucky Brown	20
11	1979	A Scream from Silence	La monteuse	57
12	1980	The Coffin Affair		0
13	1994	Ruth		0
14	1996	L'oreille d'un sourd		0
15	1997	Heads or Tails	Huissier Saisibec	66
16	1997	The Revenge of the Woman in Black	The Director	45
17	1998	Streetheart		50
18	1998	Now or Never	Arlette	56
19	1999	The Long Winter	Rose-Aimee Bouchard	72
20	2000	Heaven	Veuve #1	0
21	2003	How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause	Mère	55
22	2003	The Barbarian Invasions	Nurse Carole	71
23	2004	Happiness is a Sad Song	Chauffeur (Autobus)	60
24	2005	Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery		0
25	2005	Familia	Madeleine	61
26	2005	A Year in the Death of Jack Richards	Julie Duceppe	0
27	2007	Happiness Bound		0
28	2009	Suzie	Suzie	57
29	2011	Score		0
30	2011	Good Neighbours	Mme. Gauthier	56
31	2011	Pour l'amour de Dieu	Léonie (62 ans)	30
32	2013	Sarah Prefers to Run	Entraîneure McGill	59
33	2014	Maternel		0
34	2014	The Yellows	Nel	60
35	2015	Early Winter	Lucille	56
36	2015	My Internship in Canada	Mairesse de St-Philémon	63
37	2016	Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses	Self	0
38	2016	Nitro Rush		59
39	2016	Boundaries		58
40	2017	Ravenous	Pauline	59
41	2017	Claire l'hiver	Mère de Claire	0
42	2018	The Devil's Share	Self (archive footage)	80
43	2020	Laughter	Jeanne	61
44	2022	Arsenault and Fils	Irène	66
45	2022	Arlette	Présidente de la chambre	57
46	2023	Frontiers	Angèle Messier	68
47	2023	The Nature of Love	Madeleine	72
48	2024	You Are Not Alone	Lucy	70
49		Où vont les âmes?		0
50	2025	À la lumière du soir		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1995	Les héritiers Duval		100
2	1999	Le Polock	: Aurore Langlois	0
3	2002	Bunker, le cirque	Lise Langlois	0
4	2002	Viens voir les comédiens	Self	0
5	2007	Les p'tites vues	Self	0
6	2007	Curieux Bégin	Self	70
7	2008	Club social	Self	0
8	2009	Les Appendices	Self	0
9	2010	Les Enfants de la télé	Self	65
10	2010	Ça finit bien la semaine	Self	0
11	2012	Unite 9	Élise Beaupré	63
12	2013	The Yellows	Nel	0
13	2013	Deux hommes en or	Self	0
14	2013	On passe à l'Histoire	Self	0
15	2013	En mode Salvail	Self	20
16	2014	Viens-tu faire un tour?	Self	0
17	2014	Beauté fatale	Self	70
18	2016	Esprit critique	Self	0
19	2016	Esprit critique	Self - Collaborator	0
20	2016	Fatale-Station	Jean O'Gallagher	72
21	2017	Y'a du monde à messe	Self	75
22	2017	Dans les médias	Self	0
23	2017	The Disappearance	Lieutenant-Detective Susan Bowden	73
24	2018	Les poilus	Self	30
25	2018	Pour emporter	Self	0
26	2018	Cette année-là	Self	0
27	2019	Les invisibles	Micheline Lanctôt	65
28	2019	L'effet Wow	Self	0
29	2019	Zone franche	Self	0
30	2019	Bonsoir bonsoir!	Self	40
31	2019	On va se le dire	Self	20
32	2019	Toute la vie	Édith Leclerc	85
33	2020	À tour de rôles	Self - Main Guest	0
34	2020	L'autre midi à la table d'à côté		80
35	2022	Le temps des framboises	Martha Conley	70
36	2023	Martin Matte en direct	Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien)	0
37	2024	Dans un cinéma près de chez vous	Self	0

Micheline Lanctôt

Film

Television