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.
Frontiers
(Angèle Messier)
The Nature of Love
(Madeleine)
Blood Relatives
(Mrs Carella)
Sarah Prefers to Run
(Entraîneure McGill)
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
(Mère)
The True Nature of Bernadette
(Bernadette)
Voyage to Grand Tartarie
The Heavenly Bodies
(Sweetie)
L'oreille d'un sourd
Happiness is a Sad Song
(Chauffeur (Autobus))
Familia
(Madeleine)
Suzie
(Suzie)
A Year in the Death of Jack Richards
(Julie Duceppe)
The Revenge of the Woman in Black
(The Director)
The Long Winter
(Rose-Aimee Bouchard)
Blood & Guts
(Lucky Brown)
You Are Not Alone
(Lucy)
Arlette
(Présidente de la chambre)
Score
Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
Early Winter
(Lucille)
My Internship in Canada
(Mairesse de St-Philémon)
The Barbarian Invasions
(Nurse Carole)
A Scream from Silence
(La monteuse)
Nitro Rush
Heads or Tails
(Huissier Saisibec)
Now or Never
(Arlette)
Ruth
Ravenous
(Pauline)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
(Yvette)
Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
(Odette)
The Coffin Affair
Noël et Juliette
(Monique)
Claire l'hiver
(Mère de Claire)
Child Under A Leaf
(The Friend)
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
(Self)
Laughter
(Jeanne)
Maternel
Pour l'amour de Dieu
(Léonie (62 ans))
Souris, tu m'inquiètes
Good Neighbours
(Mme. Gauthier)
Streetheart
Happiness Bound
Heaven
(Veuve #1)
The Devil's Share
(Self (archive footage))
Arsenault and Fils
(Irène)
Boundaries
Where Souls Go
(Louise)
The Yellows
(Nel)
À la lumière du soir
(Self)
Les oubliés
(Rose)
Le Polock
(: Aurore Langlois)
Curieux Bégin
(Self)
Deux hommes en or
(Self)
Bunker, le cirque
(Lise Langlois)
Les poilus
(Self)
Les Appendices
(Self)
Pour emporter
(Self)
L'autre midi à la table d'à côté
Unite 9
(Élise Beaupré)
En mode Salvail
(Self)
Toute la vie
(Édith Leclerc)
Beauté fatale
(Self)
Le temps des framboises
(Martha Conley)
The Disappearance
(Lieutenant-Detective Susan Bowden)
Fatale-Station
(Jean O'Gallagher)
Ça finit bien la semaine
(Self)
Martin Matte en direct
(Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien))
Les Enfants de la télé
(Self)
Esprit critique
(Self)
On passe à l'Histoire
(Self)
Viens voir les comédiens
(Self)
Club social
(Self)
Les p'tites vues
(Self)
Bonsoir bonsoir!
(Self)
Viens-tu faire un tour?
(Self)
The Yellows
(Nel)
Les invisibles
(Micheline Lanctôt)
Cette année-là
(Self)
Dans les médias
(Self)
Zone franche
(Self)
Esprit critique
(Self - Collaborator)
Les héritiers Duval
Y'a du monde à messe
(Self)
À tour de rôles
(Self - Main Guest)
On va se le dire
(Self)
L'effet Wow
(Self)
Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
(Self)
STAT
(Josette Harvey)
À cœur battant
(Édith Leclerc)
La ligne de chaleur
(Screenplay)
Suzie
(Director)
Sonatine
(Director)
Sonatine
(Screenplay)
Le Piège d'Issoudun
(Director)
Le Piège d'Issoudun
(Writer)
Suzie
(Writer)
Le Piège d'Issoudun
(Editor)
Others
(Director)
A Token Gesture
(Director)
A Token Gesture
(Production Design)
The Handyman
(Director)
Others
(Writer)
Pour l'amour de Dieu
(Director)
Pour l'amour de Dieu
(Writer)
A Hero's Life
(Director)
A Hero's Life
(Writer)
Les Guerriers
(Director)
Les Guerriers
(Writer)
9
(Director)
Two Can Play
(Director)
Two Can Play
(Writer)
Une manière de vivre
(Director)
Une manière de vivre
(Writer)
Onzième spéciale
(Director)
La poursuite du bonheur
(Director)
The Handyman
(Writer)
Un château de cartes
(Special Effects)
According to Jim
(Director)