Micheline Lanctôt
Born: 1947-05-12 in Frelighsburg, Québec, Canada
Known For: Acting
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
2026
- Les oubliés as Rose
2025
- Where Souls Go as Louise
- À la lumière du soir as Self
2024
- Dans un cinéma près de chez vous as Self
- You Are Not Alone as Lucy
2023
- À cœur battant as Édith Leclerc
- The Nature of Love as Madeleine
- Martin Matte en direct as Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien)
- Frontiers as Angèle Messier
2022
- STAT as Josette Harvey
- Le temps des framboises as Martha Conley
- Arsenault and Fils as Irène
- Arlette as Présidente de la chambre
2021
- 39-45 en sol canadien as Self
2020
- L'autre midi à la table d'à côté
- À tour de rôles as Self - Main Guest
- Laughter as Jeanne
2019
- Bonsoir bonsoir! as Self
- On va se le dire as Self
- Toute la vie as Édith Leclerc
- Les invisibles as Micheline Lanctôt
- Zone franche as Self
- L'effet Wow as Self
- Une manière de vivre ... (Director)
2018
- Cette année-là as Self
- Pour emporter as Self
- Les poilus as Self
- The Devil's Share as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Y'a du monde à messe as Self
- Dans les médias as Self
- The Disappearance as Lieutenant-Detective Susan Bowden
- Ravenous as Pauline
- Winter Claire as Mère de Claire
2016
- Esprit critique as Self
- Fatale-Station as Jean O'Gallagher
- Nitro Rush
- Boundaries
- 9 ... (Director)
- Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses as Self
2015
- Others ... (Director)
- My Internship in Canada as Mairesse de St-Philémon
- Early Winter as Lucille
2014
- Viens-tu faire un tour? as Self
- Maternel
- Beauté fatale as Self
- The Yellows as Nel
2013
- En mode Salvail as Self
- Deux hommes en or as Self
- The Yellows as Nel
- On passe à l'Histoire as Self
- Sarah Prefers to Run as Entraîneure McGill
2012
- Unite 9 as Élise Beaupré
2011
- Good Neighbours as Mme. Gauthier
- Pour l'amour de Dieu as Léonie (62 ans)
- Score
2010
- Les Enfants de la télé as Self
- Ça finit bien la semaine as Self
2009
- Les Appendices as Self
- J'ai la mémoire qui tourne
- Suzie as Suzie
2008
- Club social as Self
2007
- Curieux Bégin as Self
- Les p'tites vues as Self
- Happiness Bound
2005
- Familia as Madeleine
- A Year in the Death of Jack Richards as Julie Duceppe
- Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
2004
- Les Guerriers ... (Director)
- Happiness is a Sad Song as Chauffeur (Autobus)
2003
- Le Piège d'Issoudun ... (Director)
- The Barbarian Invasions as Nurse Carole
- How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause as Mère
2002
- Viens voir les comédiens as Self
- Bunker, le cirque as Lise Langlois
2001
- According to Jim ... (Director)
2000
- Heaven as Veuve #1
1999
- Le Polock as : Aurore Langlois
- The Long Winter as Rose-Aimee Bouchard
1998
- Now or Never as Arlette
- Streetheart
1997
- Heads or Tails as Huissier Saisibec
- The Revenge of the Woman in Black as The Director
1996
1995
1994
- A Hero's Life ... (Director)
- Ruth
1993
- Two Can Play ... (Director)
1988
- Onzième spéciale ... (Director)
1987
- La poursuite du bonheur ... (Director)
- La ligne de chaleur ... (Screenplay)
1984
- Sonatine ... (Director)
1980
- The Handyman ... (Director)
- The Coffin Affair
1979
- A Scream from Silence as La monteuse
1978
- Blood Relatives as Mrs Carella
- Blood & Guts as Lucky Brown
1976
- Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie as Odette
1975
- A Token Gesture ... (Director)
1974
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz as Yvette
- Child Under a Leaf as The Friend
- Voyage to Grand Tartarie
1973
- Noël and Juliette as Monique
- The Heavenly Bodies as Sweetie
- Souris, tu m'inquiètes
1972
- The True Nature of Bernadette as Bernadette