Name
Micheline Lanctôt
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1947-05-12 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Frelighsburg, Québec, Canada
Biography
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
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Max learns that his 17-year-old son Theo has just been recruited by a criminal organizatio...
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Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 ...
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A heterosexual man pretends to be gay in order to keep his career in the world of art, whi...
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A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary....
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The Arsenaults, a close-knit family who profit from illegal hunting, have ruled the roost ...
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The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make...
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- 2003 How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause as Mère
- 1972 The True Nature of Bernadette as Bernadette
- 1974 Voyage to Grand Tartarie
- 1973 The Heavenly Bodies as Sweetie
- 1996 L'oreille d'un sourd
- 2004 Happiness is a Sad Song as Chauffeur (Autobus)
- 2005 Familia as Madeleine
- 1997 The Revenge of the Woman in Black as The Director
- 2009 Suzie as Suzie
- 2005 A Year in the Death of Jack Richards as Julie Duceppe
- 1999 The Long Winter as Rose-Aimee Bouchard
- 1978 Blood & Guts as Lucky Brown
- 2024 You Are Not Alone as Lucy
- 2022 Arlette as Présidente de la chambre
- 2011 Score
- 2005 Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
- 2015 Early Winter as Lucille
- 2015 My Internship in Canada as Mairesse de St-Philémon
- 2003 The Barbarian Invasions as Nurse Carole
- 1979 A Scream from Silence as La monteuse
- 2016 Nitro Rush
- 1997 Heads or Tails as Huissier Saisibec
- 1998 Now or Never as Arlette
- 1994 Ruth
- 2017 Ravenous as Pauline
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- 1976 Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie as Odette
- 1980 The Coffin Affair
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- 2017 Winter Claire as Mère de Claire
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- 1998 Streetheart
- 2007 Happiness Bound
- 2000 Heaven as Veuve #1
- 2018 The Devil's Share as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 Arsenault and Fils as Irène
- 2016 Boundaries
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- 2014 The Yellows as Nel
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- 2002 Bunker, le cirque ( 11 episodes ) as Lise Langlois
- 2018 Les poilus ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2009 Les Appendices ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2018 Pour emporter ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2020 L'autre midi à la table d'à côté ( 8 episodes )
- 2012 Unite 9 ( 73 episodes ) as Élise Beaupré
- 2013 En mode Salvail ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2019 Toute la vie ( 72 episodes ) as Édith Leclerc
- 2014 Beauté fatale ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2022 Le temps des framboises ( 20 episodes ) as Martha Conley
- 2017 The Disappearance ( 6 episodes ) as Lieutenant-Detective Susan Bowden
- 2016 Fatale-Station ( 10 episodes ) as Jean O'Gallagher
- 2010 Ça finit bien la semaine ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2023 Martin Matte en direct ( 1 episode ) as Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien)
- 2010 Les Enfants de la télé ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2016 Esprit critique ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2013 On passe à l'Histoire ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2002 Viens voir les comédiens ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2008 Club social ( 2 episodes ) as Self
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- 2014 Viens-tu faire un tour? ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2019 Bonsoir bonsoir! ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2013 The Yellows ( 2 episodes ) as Nel
- 2019 Les invisibles ( 1 episode ) as Micheline Lanctôt
- 2018 Cette année-là ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2017 Dans les médias ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2019 Zone franche ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2016 Esprit critique ( 1 episode ) as Self - Collaborator
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- 2020 À tour de rôles ( 1 episode ) as Self - Main Guest
- 2019 On va se le dire ( 1 episode ) as Self
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- 2021 39-45 en sol canadien ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2019 Bonsoir bonsoir! ( 1 episode ) as Soi-même
