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
Credits
- 2025 · À la lumière du soir as
- 2024 · You Are Not Alone as Lucy
- 2024 · Dans un cinéma près de chez vous as Self
- 2023 · Martin Matte en direct as Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien)
- 2023 · The Nature of Love as Madeleine
- 2023 · Frontiers as Angèle Messier
- 2022 · Arlette as Présidente de la chambre
- 2022 · Arsenault and Fils as Irène
- 2022 · Le temps des framboises as Martha Conley
- 2020 · L'autre midi à la table d'à côté as
- 2020 · À tour de rôles as Self - Main Guest
- 2020 · Laughter as Jeanne
- 2019 · Toute la vie as Édith Leclerc
- 2019 · On va se le dire as Self
- 2019 · Bonsoir bonsoir! as Self
- 2019 · Zone franche as Self
- 2019 · L'effet Wow as Self
- 2019 · Les invisibles as Micheline Lanctôt
- 2018 · Cette année-là as Self
- 2018 · Pour emporter as Self
- 2018 · Les poilus as Self
- 2018 · The Devil's Share as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Claire l'hiver as Mère de Claire
- 2017 · The Disappearance as Lieutenant-Detective Susan Bowden
- 2017 · Ravenous as Pauline
- 2017 · Dans les médias as Self
- 2017 · Y'a du monde à messe as Self
- 2016 · Fatale-Station as Jean O'Gallagher
- 2016 · Boundaries as
- 2016 · Nitro Rush as
- 2016 · Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses as Self
- 2016 · Esprit critique as Self
- 2016 · Esprit critique as Self - Collaborator
- 2015 · My Internship in Canada as Mairesse de St-Philémon
- 2015 · Early Winter as Lucille
- 2014 · Beauté fatale as Self
- 2014 · The Yellows as Nel
- 2014 · Maternel as
- 2014 · Viens-tu faire un tour? as Self
- 2013 · En mode Salvail as Self
- 2013 · On passe à l'Histoire as Self
- 2013 · Deux hommes en or as Self
- 2013 · The Yellows as Nel
- 2013 · Sarah Prefers to Run as Entraîneure McGill
- 2012 · Unite 9 as Élise Beaupré
- 2011 · Pour l'amour de Dieu as Léonie (62 ans)
- 2011 · Good Neighbours as Mme. Gauthier
- 2011 · Score as
- 2010 · Ça finit bien la semaine as Self
- 2010 · Les Enfants de la télé as Self
- 2009 · Suzie as Suzie
- 2009 · Les Appendices as Self
- 2008 · Club social as Self
- 2007 · Happiness Bound as
- 2007 · Curieux Bégin as Self
- 2007 · Les p'tites vues as Self
- 2005 · A Year in the Death of Jack Richards as Julie Duceppe
- 2005 · Familia as Madeleine
- 2005 · Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery as
- 2004 · Happiness is a Sad Song as Chauffeur (Autobus)
- 2003 · The Barbarian Invasions as Nurse Carole
- 2003 · How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause as Mère
- 2002 · Viens voir les comédiens as Self
- 2002 · Bunker, le cirque as Lise Langlois
- 2000 · Heaven as Veuve #1
- 1999 · The Long Winter as Rose-Aimee Bouchard
- 1999 · Le Polock as : Aurore Langlois
- 1998 · Now or Never as Arlette
- 1998 · Streetheart as
- 1997 · The Revenge of the Woman in Black as The Director
- 1997 · Heads or Tails as Huissier Saisibec
- 1978 · Blood & Guts as Lucky Brown
- Future · Où vont les âmes? as
- 1996 · L'oreille d'un sourd as
- 1995 · Les héritiers Duval as
- 1994 · Ruth as
- 1980 · The Coffin Affair as
- 1979 · A Scream from Silence as La monteuse
- 1978 · Blood Relatives as Mrs Carella
- 1976 · Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie as Odette
- 1974 · Child Under A Leaf as The Friend
- 1974 · The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz as Yvette
- 1974 · Voyage to Grand Tartarie as
- 1973 · Noël et Juliette as Monique
- 1973 · The Heavenly Bodies as Sweetie
- 1973 · Souris, tu m'inquiètes as
- 1972 · The True Nature of Bernadette as Bernadette