Micheline Lanctôt
Born
May 12, 1947 (78 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Frelighsburg, Québec, Canada
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.
Known For
À la lumière du soir
2025
You Are Not Alone
Lucy
2024
Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
Self · (1 episode)
2024
Martin Matte en direct
Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien) · (1 episode)
2023
The Nature of Love
Madeleine
2023
Frontiers
Angèle Messier
2023
Arlette
Présidente de la chambre
2022
Arsenault and Fils
Irène
2022
Le temps des framboises
Martha Conley · (20 episodes)
2022
À tour de rôles
Self - Main Guest · (1 episode)
2020
Toute la vie
Édith Leclerc · (72 episodes)
2019
On va se le dire
Self · (1 episode)
2019
Bonsoir bonsoir!
Self · (3 episodes)
2019
Zone franche
Self · (1 episode)
2019
L'effet Wow
Self · (1 episode)
2019
Les invisibles
Micheline Lanctôt · (1 episode)
2019
Cette année-là
Self · (1 episode)
2018
Pour emporter
Self · (1 episode)
2018
Les poilus
Self · (1 episode)
2018
The Devil's Share
Self (archive footage)
2018
Boundaries
2016
Où vont les âmes?
L'autre midi à la table d'à côté
(8 episodes)
2020
Laughter
Jeanne
2020
Claire l'hiver
Mère de Claire
2017
The Disappearance
Lieutenant-Detective Susan Bowden · (6 episodes)
2017
Ravenous
Pauline
2017
Dans les médias
Self · (1 episode)
2017
Y'a du monde à messe
Self · (2 episodes)
2017
Fatale-Station
Jean O'Gallagher · (10 episodes)
2016
Nitro Rush
2016
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
Self
2016
Esprit critique
Self · (1 episode)
2016
Esprit critique
Self - Collaborator · (1 episode)
2016
My Internship in Canada
Mairesse de St-Philémon
2015
Early Winter
Lucille
2015
Beauté fatale
Self · (1 episode)
2014
The Yellows
Nel
2014
Maternel
2014
Viens-tu faire un tour?
Self · (1 episode)
2014
En mode Salvail
Self · (1 episode)
2013
On passe à l'Histoire
Self · (2 episodes)
2013
Deux hommes en or
Self · (1 episode)
2013
The Yellows
Nel · (2 episodes)
2013
Sarah Prefers to Run
Entraîneure McGill
2013
Unite 9
Élise Beaupré · (73 episodes)
2012
Pour l'amour de Dieu
Léonie (62 ans)
2011
Good Neighbours
Mme. Gauthier
2011
Score
2011
Ça finit bien la semaine
Self · (1 episode)
2010
Les Enfants de la télé
Self · (2 episodes)
2010
Suzie
Suzie
2009
Les Appendices
Self · (1 episode)
2009
Club social
Self · (2 episodes)
2008
Happiness Bound
2007
Curieux Bégin
Self · (1 episode)
2007
Les p'tites vues
Self · (2 episodes)
2007
A Year in the Death of Jack Richards
Julie Duceppe
2005
Familia
Madeleine
2005
Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
2005
Happiness is a Sad Song
Chauffeur (Autobus)
2004
The Barbarian Invasions
Nurse Carole
2003
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
Mère
2003
Viens voir les comédiens
Self · (1 episode)
2002
Bunker, le cirque
Lise Langlois · (11 episodes)
2002
Heaven
Veuve #1
2000
The Long Winter
Rose-Aimee Bouchard
1999
Le Polock
: Aurore Langlois · (6 episodes)
1999
Now or Never
Arlette
1998
Streetheart
1998
The Revenge of the Woman in Black
The Director
1997
Heads or Tails
Huissier Saisibec
1997
L'oreille d'un sourd
1996
Les héritiers Duval
(60 episodes)
1995
Ruth
1994
The Coffin Affair
1980
A Scream from Silence
La monteuse
1979
Blood & Guts
Lucky Brown
1978
Blood Relatives
Mrs Carella
1978
Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
Odette
1976
Child Under A Leaf
The Friend
1974
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Yvette
1974
Voyage to Grand Tartarie
1974
Noël et Juliette
Monique
1973
The Heavenly Bodies
Sweetie
1973
Souris, tu m'inquiètes
1973
The True Nature of Bernadette
Bernadette
1972