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