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Micheline Lanctôt
Actor

Micheline Lanctôt

12 May 1947Born
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Frelighsburg, Québec, CanadaBirthplace

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 Bernad

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ette). 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

  1. 2026Les oubliésFilm: Rose
  2. 2025Where Souls GoFilm: Louise
  3. 2024You Are Not AloneFilm: Lucy
  4. 2023The Nature of LoveFilm: Madeleine
  5. 2023FrontiersFilm: Angèle Messier
  6. 2023À cœur battantSeries: Édith Leclerc (48 episodes)
  7. 2022STATSeries: Josette Harvey (5 episodes)
  8. 2022ArletteFilm: Présidente de la chambre
  9. 2022Arsenault and FilsFilm: Irène
  10. 2022Le temps des framboisesSeries: Martha Conley (20 episodes)
  11. 2020LaughterFilm: Jeanne
  12. 2019A Way of LifeFilm: Director, Writer
  13. 2019Toute la vieSeries: Édith Leclerc (72 episodes)
  14. 2019Les invisiblesSeries: Micheline Lanctôt (1 episode)
  15. 2017Winter ClaireFilm: Mère de Claire
  16. 2017The DisappearanceSeries: Susan Bowden (6 episodes)
  17. 2017RavenousFilm: Pauline
  18. 2016Fatale-StationSeries: Jean O'Gallagher (10 episodes)
  19. 2016BoundariesFilm
  20. 20169Film: Director
  21. 2016Nitro RushFilm
  22. 2015My Internship in CanadaFilm: Mairesse de St-Philémon
  23. 2015Early WinterFilm: Lucille
  24. 2015OthersFilm: Director, Writer
  25. 2014The YellowsFilm: Nel
  26. 2014MaternelFilm
  27. 2013The YellowsSeries: Nel (2 episodes)
  28. 2013Sarah Prefers to RunFilm: Entraîneure McGill
  29. 2013Joy and ElationFilm
  30. 2012Unite 9Series: Élise Beaupré (73 episodes)
  31. 2011Pour l'amour de DieuFilm: Léonie (62 ans), Writer, Director
  32. 2011Good NeighboursFilm: Mme. Gauthier
  33. 2011ScoreFilm
  34. 2009J'ai la mémoire qui tourneSeries (1 episode)
  35. 2009SuzieFilm: Suzie, Director, Writer
  36. 2007Happiness BoundFilm
  37. 2005A Year in the Death of Jack RichardsFilm: Julie Duceppe
  38. 2005FamiliaFilm: Madeleine
  39. 2005Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree MysteryFilm
  40. 2004Les GuerriersFilm: Writer, Director
  41. 2004Happiness is a Sad SongFilm: Chauffeur (Autobus)
  42. 2003The Juniper TreeFilm: Director, Writer
  43. 2003The Barbarian InvasionsFilm: Nurse Carole
  44. 2003How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During MenopauseFilm: Mère
  45. 2002Bunker, le cirqueSeries: Lise Langlois (11 episodes)
  46. 2002Women Without WingsFilm: Zef
  47. 2001According to JimSeries: Director (1 episode)
  48. 2000HeavenFilm: Veuve #1
  49. 1999The Long WinterFilm: Rose-Aimee Bouchard
  50. 1999Le PolockSeries: : Aurore Langlois (6 episodes)
  51. 1998Now or NeverFilm: Arlette
  52. 1998StreetheartFilm
  53. 1997The Revenge of the Woman in BlackFilm: The Director
  54. 1997Heads or TailsFilm: Huissier Saisibec
  55. 1996L'oreille d'un sourdFilm
  56. 1996Omertà, la loi du silenceSeries: Lucille Mallette (1 episode)
  57. 1995Les héritiers DuvalSeries (60 episodes)
  58. 1994RuthFilm
  59. 1994A Hero's LifeFilm: Director, Writer
  60. 1993Two Can PlayFilm: Director, Writer
  61. 1988Onzième spécialeFilm: Director
  62. 1987La ligne de chaleurFilm: Screenplay
  63. 1987La poursuite du bonheurFilm: Director
  64. 1984SonatineFilm: Screenplay, Director
  65. 1980The Coffin AffairFilm
  66. 1980The HandymanFilm: Director, Writer
  67. 1979A Scream from SilenceFilm: La monteuse
  68. 1978Blood & GutsFilm: Lucky Brown
  69. 1978Blood RelativesFilm: Mrs Carella
  70. 1976Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vieFilm: Odette
  71. 1975A Token GestureFilm: Director
  72. 1974Child Under a LeafFilm: The Friend
  73. 1974The Apprenticeship of Duddy KravitzFilm: Yvette
  74. 1974Voyage to Grand TartarieFilm
  75. 1973Noël and JulietteFilm: Monique
  76. 1973The Heavenly BodiesFilm: Sweetie
  77. 1973Souris, tu m'inquiètesFilm
  78. 1972The True Nature of BernadetteFilm: Bernadette

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