Micheline Lanctôt
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 12, 1947 (age 79)
- Birthplace
- 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
Filmography
Les oubliés
Movie · as Rose
Where Souls Go
Movie · as Louise
À la lumière du soir
Movie · as Self
You Are Not Alone
Movie · as Lucy
Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Frontiers
Movie · as Angèle Messier
The Nature of Love
Movie · as Madeleine
Martin Matte en direct
TV · as Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien) · 1 ep
À cœur battant
TV · as Édith Leclerc · 48 eps
Arlette
Movie · as Présidente de la chambre
Arsenault and Fils
Movie · as Irène
Le temps des framboises
TV · as Martha Conley · 20 eps
STAT
TV · as Josette Harvey · 5 eps
39-45 en sol canadien
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Laughter
Movie · as Jeanne
L'autre midi à la table d'à côté
TV · 8 eps
À tour de rôles
TV · as Self - Main Guest · 1 ep
Toute la vie
TV · as Édith Leclerc · 72 eps
Bonsoir bonsoir!
TV · as Self · 5 eps
Les invisibles
TV · as Micheline Lanctôt · 1 ep
Zone franche
TV · as Self · 1 ep
On va se le dire
TV · as Self · 1 ep
L'effet Wow
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Devil's Share
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Les poilus
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Pour emporter
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Cette année-là
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Ravenous
Movie · as Pauline
Winter Claire
Movie · as Mère de Claire
The Disappearance
TV · as Susan Bowden · 6 eps
Dans les médias
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Y'a du monde à messe
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Nitro Rush
Movie
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
Movie · as Self
Boundaries
Movie
Fatale-Station
TV · as Jean O'Gallagher · 10 eps
Esprit critique
TV · as Self, Self - Collaborator · 1 ep
Early Winter
Movie · as Lucille
My Internship in Canada
Movie · as Mairesse de St-Philémon
Maternel
Movie
The Yellows
Movie · as Nel
Beauté fatale
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Viens-tu faire un tour?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Sarah Prefers to Run
Movie · as Entraîneure McGill
Joy and Elation
Movie
Deux hommes en or
TV · as Self · 1 ep
En mode Salvail
TV · as Self · 1 ep
On passe à l'Histoire
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Yellows
TV · as Nel · 2 eps
Unite 9
TV · as Élise Beaupré · 73 eps
Score
Movie
Pour l'amour de Dieu
Movie · as Léonie (62 ans)
Good Neighbours
Movie · as Mme. Gauthier
Ça finit bien la semaine
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Les Enfants de la télé
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Suzie
Movie · as Suzie
Les Appendices
TV · as Self · 1 ep
J'ai la mémoire qui tourne
TV · 1 ep
Club social
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Happiness Bound
Movie
Curieux Bégin
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Les p'tites vues
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Familia
Movie · as Madeleine
A Year in the Death of Jack Richards
Movie · as Julie Duceppe
Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
Movie
Happiness is a Sad Song
Movie · as Chauffeur (Autobus)
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
Movie · as Mère
The Barbarian Invasions
Movie · as Nurse Carole
Women Without Wings
Movie · as Zef
Bunker, le cirque
TV · as Lise Langlois · 11 eps
Viens voir les comédiens
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Sucré salé
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Heaven
Movie · as Veuve #1
The Long Winter
Movie · as Rose-Aimee Bouchard
Le Polock
TV · as : Aurore Langlois · 6 eps
Now or Never
Movie · as Arlette
Streetheart
Movie
The Revenge of the Woman in Black
Movie · as The Director
Heads or Tails
Movie · as Huissier Saisibec
L'oreille d'un sourd
Movie
Omertà, la loi du silence
TV · as Lucille Mallette · 3 eps
Les héritiers Duval
TV · 60 eps
Ruth
Movie
The Coffin Affair
Movie
A Scream from Silence
Movie · as La monteuse
Blood Relatives
Movie · as Mrs Carella
Blood & Guts
Movie · as Lucky Brown
Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
Movie · as Odette
Voyage to Grand Tartarie
Movie
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Movie · as Yvette
Child Under a Leaf
Movie · as The Friend
The Heavenly Bodies
Movie · as Sweetie
Noël and Juliette
Movie · as Monique
Souris, tu m'inquiètes
Movie
The True Nature of Bernadette
Movie · as Bernadette