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Micheline Lanctôt

Actor, Director, Writer, Editor, ProducerBorn May 12, 1947 (78 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Good Neighbours
  • The Nature of Love
  • Nitro Rush

Known For

  • Ravenous
  • According to Jim
  • The True Nature of Bernadette
  • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
  • The Nature of Love
  • The Disappearance (2017)
  • How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
  • Blood Relatives
  • Sarah Prefers to Run
  • Eve
  • Pour l'amour de Dieu
  • Familia
  • Frontiers
  • Laughter
  • Autrui
  • Suzie
  • Deux actrices
  • Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore
  • 9
  • Early Winter
  • Le bonheur c'est une chanson triste
  • Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
  • Blood & Guts
  • Family Game

Filmography

2024
2023
2023
Frontiers · as Angèle Messier
2023
À cœur battant (TV Series) · as Édith Leclerc
2022
Stat (2022) (TV Series) · as Josette Harvey
2022
Arlette · as Présidente De La Chambre
2022
Family Game · as Irène
2022
Last Summers of the Raspberries (TV Series) · as Martha Conley
2021
Patrick Senecal Present (TV Series) · as Monique Auger
2020
2020
Laughter · as Jeanne
2019
Toute la vie (TV Series) · as Édith Leclerc
2019
Cerebrum (TV Series) · as Cast
2017
The Disappearance (2017) (TV Series) · as Lieutenant-Detective Susan Bowden
2017
Ravenous · as Pauline
2016
Fatale-Station (TV Series) · as Jean O'gallagher
2016
2016
2015
My Internship in Canada · as Mairesse De St-Philémon
2015
Early Winter · as Lucille
2014
Les Jaunes · as Nel
2013
Sarah Prefers to Run · as Entraîneure Mcgill
2012
Unit 9 (TV Series) · as Élise Beaupré
2012
O' (TV Series) · as Solange O'hara
2011
Pour l'amour de Dieu · as Léonie (62 Ans)
2011
Penthouse 5.0 (TV Series) · as Pauline Nantil
2010
Good Neighbours · as Mme. Gauthier
2009
Suzie · as Suzie
2007
2006
7e Round (TV Series) · as Cast
2005
Familia · as Madeleine
2005
2004
2004
Le bonheur c'est une chanson triste · as Chauffeur (autobus)
2003
The Barbarian Invasions · as Nurse Carole
2003
2002
Bunker, le cirque (TV Series) · as Lise Langlois
1999
Heaven · as Veuve #1
1999
1998
Aujourd'hui ou jamais · as Arlette
1998
1997
Un gars, une fille (CA) (TV Series) · as Micheline
1997
1997
Heads or Tails · as Huissier Saisibec
1996
1996
Omertà, la loi du silence (TV Series) · as Lucille Mallette
1994
1980
1979
A Scream from Silence · as La Monteuse
1978
Blood & Guts · as Lucky Brown
1978
Blood Relatives · as Mrs Carella
1977
Jamais deux sans toi (TV Series) · as Marie-Josée Lafleur
1976
1974
Child Under a Leaf · as The Friend
1974
1974
1973
Noel and Juliette · as Monique
1973
The Heavenly Bodies · as Sweetie
1972

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