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.
Filmography
all 97
Movies 59
TV Shows 38
self 26
Director 14
Writer 1
Vous n’êtes pas seuls (2024)
Martin Matte en direct (2023)
The Nature of Love (2023)
Frontiers (2023)
Arlette (2022)
Family Game (2022)
Last Summers of the Raspberries (2022)
L'autre midi à la table d'à côté (2020)
À tour de rôles (2020)
Laughter (2020)
Une manière de vivre (2019)
Toute la vie (2019)
On va se le dire (2019)
Bonsoir bonsoir! (2019)
Ainsi va la vie (2019)
Zone franche (2019)
L'effet Wow (2019)
Les invisibles (2019)
Cette année-là (2018)
Pour emporter (2018)
Les poilus (2018)
The Devil's Share (2018)
Claire l'hiver (2017)
The Disappearance (2017)
Ravenous (2017)
Dans les médias (2017)
Y'a du monde à messe (2017)
Fatale-Station (2016)
Boundaries (2016)
9 (2016)
Nitro Rush (2016)
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses (2016)
Esprit critique (2016)
My Internship in Canada (2015)
Early Winter (2015)
Others (2015)
Beauté fatale (2014)
Maternel (2014)
Viens-tu faire un tour? (2014)
En mode Salvail (2013)
On passe à l'Histoire (2013)
Deux hommes en or (2013)
The Yellows (2013)
Sarah Prefers to Run (2013)
Unite 9 (2012)
O' (2012)
Pour l'amour de Dieu (2011)
Good Neighbours (2011)
Score (2011)
Ça finit bien la semaine (2010)
Les enfants de la télé (2010)
Suzie (2009)
Les Appendices (2009)
Club social (2008)
Happiness Bound (2007)
Curieux Bégin (2007)
Les p'tites vues (2007)
A Year in the Death of Jack Richards (2005)
Familia (2005)
Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery (2005)
Les guerriers (2005)
Happiness is a Sad Song (2004)
Le Piège d'Issoudun (2003)
The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause (2003)
Viens voir les comédiens (2002)
Bunker, le cirque (2002)
According to Jim (2001)
Heaven (2000)
The Long Winter (1999)
Le Polock (1999)
Now or Never (1998)
Streetheart (1998)
The Revenge of the Woman in Black (1997)
Heads or Tails (1997)
L'oreille d'un sourd (1996)
Les héritiers Duval (1995)
Ruth (1994)
A Hero's Life (1994)
Two Can Play (1993)
Onzième spéciale (1988)
La ligne de chaleur (1987)
Sonatine (1984)
The Handyman (1980)
A Scream from Silence (1979)
Blood & Guts (1978)
Blood Relatives (1978)
Jamais deux sans toi (1977)
Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie (1976)
A Token Gesture (1975)
Child Under A Leaf (1974)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Voyage to Grand Tartarie (1974)
Noël et Juliette (1973)
The Heavenly Bodies (1973)
Souris, tu m'inquiètes (1973)
The True Nature of Bernadette (1972)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1947-05-12 (76 years old)
Birth PlaceFrelighsburg, Canada
CitizenshipsCanada
AwardsGovernor General's Performing Arts Award, Prix Albert-Tessier
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