Micheline Lanctôt Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Micheline Lanctôt

Micheline Lanctôt

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 Movies

Acting

Frontiers movie poster
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Frontiers

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Frontiers
Angèle Messier
The Nature of Love movie poster
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The Nature of Love

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The Nature of Love
Madeleine
Blood Relatives movie poster
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Blood Relatives

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Blood Relatives
Mrs Carella
Sarah Prefers to Run movie poster
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Sarah Prefers to Run

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Sarah Prefers to Run
Entraîneure McGill
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause movie poster
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How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause

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How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
Mère
The True Nature of Bernadette movie poster
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The True Nature of Bernadette

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The True Nature of Bernadette
Bernadette
Voyage to Grand Tartarie movie poster
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Voyage to Grand Tartarie

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Voyage to Grand Tartarie
The Heavenly Bodies movie poster
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The Heavenly Bodies

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The Heavenly Bodies
Sweetie
L'oreille d'un sourd movie poster
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L'oreille d'un sourd

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L'oreille d'un sourd
Happiness is a Sad Song movie poster
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Happiness is a Sad Song

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Happiness is a Sad Song
Chauffeur (Autobus)

Production

La ligne de chaleur movie poster
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La ligne de chaleur

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La ligne de chaleur
Screenplay
Suzie movie poster
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Suzie

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Suzie
Director
Sonatine movie poster
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Sonatine

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Sonatine
Screenplay
Sonatine movie poster
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Sonatine

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Sonatine
Director
Le Piège d'Issoudun movie poster
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Le Piège d'Issoudun

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Le Piège d'Issoudun
Director
Le Piège d'Issoudun movie poster
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Le Piège d'Issoudun

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Le Piège d'Issoudun
Writer
Suzie movie poster
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Suzie

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Suzie
Writer
Le Piège d'Issoudun movie poster
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Le Piège d'Issoudun

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Le Piège d'Issoudun
Editor
Others movie poster
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Others

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Others
Director
A Token Gesture movie poster
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A Token Gesture

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A Token Gesture
Director

Gallery

Micheline Lanctôt portrait