Micheline Lanctôt

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.

Known For

STAT

Bonsoir bonsoir!

On va se le dire

En mode Salvail

Les Enfants de la télé

The Disappearance

Unite 9

Ça finit bien la semaine

All Movies (51)

• Les oubliés2026 · as Rose
• Where Souls Go2025 · as Louise
• À la lumière du soir2025 · as Self
• You Are Not Alone2024 · as Lucy
• The Nature of Love2023 · as Madeleine
• Frontiers2023 · as Angèle Messier
• Arlette2022 · as Présidente de la chambre
• Arsenault and Fils2022 · as Irène
• Laughter2020 · as Jeanne
• The Devil's Share2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Winter Claire2017 · as Mère de Claire
• Ravenous2017 · as Pauline
• Boundaries2016
• Nitro Rush2016
• Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses2016 · as Self
• My Internship in Canada2015 · as Mairesse de St-Philémon
• Early Winter2015 · as Lucille
• The Yellows2014 · as Nel
• Maternel2014
• Sarah Prefers to Run2013 · as Entraîneure McGill
• Pour l'amour de Dieu2011 · as Léonie (62 ans)
• Good Neighbours2011 · as Mme. Gauthier
• Score2011
• Suzie2009 · as Suzie
• Happiness Bound2007
• A Year in the Death of Jack Richards2005 · as Julie Duceppe
• Familia2005 · as Madeleine
• Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery2005
• Happiness is a Sad Song2004 · as Chauffeur (Autobus)
• The Barbarian Invasions2003 · as Nurse Carole
• How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause2003 · as Mère
• Heaven2000 · as Veuve #1
• The Long Winter1999 · as Rose-Aimee Bouchard
• Now or Never1998 · as Arlette
• Streetheart1998
• The Revenge of the Woman in Black1997 · as The Director
• Heads or Tails1997 · as Huissier Saisibec
• L'oreille d'un sourd1996
• Ruth1994
• The Coffin Affair1980
• A Scream from Silence1979 · as La monteuse
• Blood & Guts1978 · as Lucky Brown
• Blood Relatives1978 · as Mrs Carella
• Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie1976 · as Odette
• Child Under a Leaf1974 · as The Friend
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz1974 · as Yvette
• Voyage to Grand Tartarie1974
• Noël et Juliette1973 · as Monique
• The Heavenly Bodies1973 · as Sweetie
• Souris, tu m'inquiètes1973
• The True Nature of Bernadette1972 · as Bernadette

All TV Shows (41)

• Dans un cinéma près de chez vous2024 · as Self
• Martin Matte en direct2023 · as Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien)
• À cœur battant2023 · as Édith Leclerc
• STAT2022 · as Josette Harvey
• Le temps des framboises2022 · as Martha Conley
• 39-45 en sol canadien2021 · as Self
• L'autre midi à la table d'à côté2020
• À tour de rôles2020 · as Self - Main Guest
• Toute la vie2019 · as Édith Leclerc
• On va se le dire2019 · as Self
• Bonsoir bonsoir!2019 · as Self
• Zone franche2019 · as Self
• L'effet Wow2019 · as Self
• Les invisibles2019 · as Micheline Lanctôt
• Cette année-là2018 · as Self
• Pour emporter2018 · as Self
• Les poilus2018 · as Self
• The Disappearance2017 · as Lieutenant-Detective Susan Bowden
• Dans les médias2017 · as Self
• Y'a du monde à messe2017 · as Self
• Fatale-Station2016 · as Jean O'Gallagher
• Esprit critique2016 · as Self
• Esprit critique2016 · as Self - Collaborator
• Beauté fatale2014 · as Self
• Viens-tu faire un tour?2014 · as Self
• En mode Salvail2013 · as Self
• On passe à l'Histoire2013 · as Self
• Deux hommes en or2013 · as Self
• The Yellows2013 · as Nel
• Unite 92012 · as Élise Beaupré
• Ça finit bien la semaine2010 · as Self
• Les Enfants de la télé2010 · as Self
• J'ai la mémoire qui tourne2009
• Les Appendices2009 · as Self
• Club social2008 · as Self
• Curieux Bégin2007 · as Self
• Les p'tites vues2007 · as Self
• Viens voir les comédiens2002 · as Self
• Bunker, le cirque2002 · as Lise Langlois
• Le Polock1999 · as : Aurore Langlois
• Les héritiers Duval1995