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.
Filmography
Les oubliés
as Rose
Les oubliés
as Rose
Where Souls Go
as Louise
Where Souls Go
as Louise
You Are Not Alone
as Lucy
You Are Not Alone
as Lucy
The Nature of Love
as Madeleine
The Nature of Love
as Madeleine
Arsenault and Fils
as Irène
Arsenault and Fils
as Irène
Laughter
as Jeanne
Laughter
as Jeanne
The Devil's Share
as Self (archive footage)
The Devil's Share
as Self (archive footage)
Winter Claire
as Mère de Claire
Winter Claire
as Mère de Claire
Ravenous
as Pauline
Ravenous
as Pauline
Boundaries
Boundaries
Nitro Rush
Nitro Rush
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
as Self
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
as Self
My Internship in Canada
as Mairesse de St-Philémon
My Internship in Canada
as Mairesse de St-Philémon
Early Winter
as Lucille
Early Winter
as Lucille
The Yellows
as Nel
The Yellows
as Nel
Sarah Prefers to Run
as Entraîneure McGill
Sarah Prefers to Run
as Entraîneure McGill
Pour l'amour de Dieu
as Léonie (62 ans)
Pour l'amour de Dieu
as Léonie (62 ans)
Good Neighbours
as Mme. Gauthier
Good Neighbours
as Mme. Gauthier
Score
Score
Suzie
as Suzie
Suzie
as Suzie
Happiness Bound
Happiness Bound
A Year in the Death of Jack Richards
as Julie Duceppe
A Year in the Death of Jack Richards
as Julie Duceppe
Familia
as Madeleine
Familia
as Madeleine
Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
The Barbarian Invasions
as Nurse Carole
The Barbarian Invasions
as Nurse Carole
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
as Mère
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
as Mère
Heaven
as Veuve #1
Heaven
as Veuve #1
The Long Winter
as Rose-Aimee Bouchard
The Long Winter
as Rose-Aimee Bouchard
Now or Never
as Arlette
Now or Never
as Arlette
Streetheart
Streetheart
The Revenge of the Woman in Black
as The Director
The Revenge of the Woman in Black
as The Director
Heads or Tails
as Huissier Saisibec
Heads or Tails
as Huissier Saisibec
Ruth
Ruth
The Coffin Affair
The Coffin Affair
A Scream from Silence
as La monteuse
A Scream from Silence
as La monteuse
Blood & Guts
as Lucky Brown
Blood & Guts
as Lucky Brown
Blood Relatives
as Mrs Carella
Blood Relatives
as Mrs Carella
Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
as Odette
Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
as Odette
Child Under a Leaf
as The Friend
Child Under a Leaf
as The Friend
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
as Yvette
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
as Yvette
Voyage to Grand Tartarie
Voyage to Grand Tartarie
Noël and Juliette
as Monique
Noël and Juliette
as Monique
The Heavenly Bodies
as Sweetie
The Heavenly Bodies
as Sweetie
The True Nature of Bernadette
as Bernadette
The True Nature of Bernadette
as Bernadette