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Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 12, 1947
Place of Birth
Frelighsburg, Québec, Canada
Micheline Lanctôt
0.3 Popularity
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
2.7
Louise
Where Souls Go
2025
0.0
Rose
Les oubliés
2025
0.0
Self
À la lumière du soir
2025
7.0
Lucy
You Are Not Alone
2024
0.0
Self
Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
2024
0.0
Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien)
Martin Matte en direct
2023
7.1
Madeleine
The Nature of Love
2023
6.4
Angèle Messier
Frontiers
2023
0.0
Édith Leclerc
À cœur battant
2023
6.8
Josette Harvey
STAT
2022
Credits
Where Souls Go
as Louise
2025
2.7
Les oubliés
as Rose
2025
0.0
À la lumière du soir
as Self
2025
0.0
You Are Not Alone
as Lucy
2024
7.0
Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
as Self
2024
0.0
Martin Matte en direct
as Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien)
2023
0.0
The Nature of Love
as Madeleine
2023
7.1
Frontiers
as Angèle Messier
2023
6.4
À cœur battant
as Édith Leclerc
2023
0.0
STAT
as Josette Harvey
2022
6.8
Arlette
as Présidente de la chambre
2022
5.4
Arsenault and Fils
as Irène
2022
6.6
Le temps des framboises
as Martha Conley
2022
7.0
L'autre midi à la table d'à côté
2020
8.0
À tour de rôles
as Self - Main Guest
2020
0.0
Laughter
as Jeanne
2020
5.7
Toute la vie
as Édith Leclerc
2019
8.5
On va se le dire
as Self
2019
2.0
Bonsoir bonsoir!
as Self
2019
4.0
Zone franche
as Self
2019
0.0
L'effet Wow
as Self
2019
0.0
Les invisibles
as Micheline Lanctôt
2019
6.5
Cette année-là
as Self
2018
0.0
Pour emporter
as Self
2018
0.0
Les poilus
as Self
2018
3.0
The Devil's Share
as Self (archive footage)
2018
8.0
Claire l'hiver
as Mère de Claire
2017
0.0
The Disappearance
as Lieutenant-Detective Susan Bowden
2017
7.2
Ravenous
as Pauline
2017
6.0
Dans les médias
as Self
2017
0.0
Y'a du monde à messe
as Self
2017
7.5
Fatale-Station
as Jean O'Gallagher
2016
7.2
Boundaries
2016
5.8
Nitro Rush
2016
5.9
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
as Self
2016
0.0
Esprit critique
as Self
2016
0.0
Esprit critique
as Self - Collaborator
2016
0.0
My Internship in Canada
as Mairesse de St-Philémon
2015
6.3
Early Winter
as Lucille
2015
5.1
🎬
Beauté fatale
as Self
2014
7.0
The Yellows
as Nel
2014
6.0
🎬
Maternel
2014
0.0
Viens-tu faire un tour?
as Self
2014
0.0
En mode Salvail
as Self
2013
2.0
On passe à l'Histoire
as Self
2013
0.0
Deux hommes en or
as Self
2013
0.0
The Yellows
as Nel
2013
0.0
Sarah Prefers to Run
as Entraîneure McGill
2013
5.9
Unite 9
as Élise Beaupré
2012
5.9
Pour l'amour de Dieu
as Léonie (62 ans)
2011
3.0
Good Neighbours
as Mme. Gauthier
2011
5.7
Score
2011
0.0
Ça finit bien la semaine
as Self
2010
0.0
Les Enfants de la télé
as Self
2010
6.5
Suzie
as Suzie
2009
5.7
Les Appendices
as Self
2009
0.0
🎬
Club social
as Self
2008
0.0
Happiness Bound
2007
0.0
Curieux Bégin
as Self
2007
7.0
🎬
Les p'tites vues
as Self
2007
0.0
A Year in the Death of Jack Richards
as Julie Duceppe
2005
0.0
Familia
as Madeleine
2005
5.6
Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
2005
0.0
Happiness is a Sad Song
as Chauffeur (Autobus)
2004
6.0
The Barbarian Invasions
as Nurse Carole
2003
7.0
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
as Mère
2003
5.5
Viens voir les comédiens
as Self
2002
0.0
Bunker, le cirque
as Lise Langlois
2002
0.0
Heaven
as Veuve #1
2000
0.0
The Long Winter
as Rose-Aimee Bouchard
1999
7.2
Le Polock
as : Aurore Langlois
1999
0.0
Now or Never
as Arlette
1998
5.6
Streetheart
1998
4.3
The Revenge of the Woman in Black
as The Director
1997
4.5
Heads or Tails
as Huissier Saisibec
1997
6.3
L'oreille d'un sourd
1996
0.0
Les héritiers Duval
1995
10.0
Ruth
1994
0.0
The Coffin Affair
1980
0.0
A Scream from Silence
as La monteuse
1979
5.1
Blood & Guts
as Lucky Brown
1978
2.0
Blood Relatives
as Mrs Carella
1978
5.6
Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
as Odette
1976
4.4
Child Under A Leaf
as The Friend
1974
3.2
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
as Yvette
1974
5.9
Voyage to Grand Tartarie
1974
0.0
Noël et Juliette
as Monique
1973
5.7
The Heavenly Bodies
as Sweetie
1973
6.0
Souris, tu m'inquiètes
1973
0.0
The True Nature of Bernadette
as Bernadette
1972
5.9