Micheline Lanctôt
Acting • Born 1947-05-12
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
91 credits
Frontiers
Movie • 2023
Angèle Messier
The Nature of Love
Movie • 2023
Madeleine
Blood Relatives
Movie • 1978
Mrs Carella
Sarah Prefers to Run
Movie • 2013
Entraîneure McGill
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
Movie • 2003
Mère
The True Nature of Bernadette
Movie • 1972
Bernadette
Voyage to Grand Tartarie
Movie • 1974
The Heavenly Bodies
Movie • 1973
Sweetie
L'oreille d'un sourd
Movie • 1996
Happiness is a Sad Song
Movie • 2004
Chauffeur (Autobus)
Familia
Movie • 2005
Madeleine
Suzie
Movie • 2009
Suzie
A Year in the Death of Jack Richards
Movie • 2005
Julie Duceppe
The Revenge of the Woman in Black
Movie • 1997
The Director
The Long Winter
Movie • 1999
Rose-Aimee Bouchard
Blood & Guts
Movie • 1978
Lucky Brown
You Are Not Alone
Movie • 2024
Lucy
Arlette
Movie • 2022
Présidente de la chambre
Score
Movie • 2011
Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
Movie • 2005
Early Winter
Movie • 2015
Lucille
My Internship in Canada
Movie • 2015
Mairesse de St-Philémon
The Barbarian Invasions
Movie • 2003
Nurse Carole
A Scream from Silence
Movie • 1979
La monteuse
Nitro Rush
Movie • 2016
Heads or Tails
Movie • 1997
Huissier Saisibec
Now or Never
Movie • 1998
Arlette
Ruth
Movie • 1994
Ravenous
Movie • 2017
Pauline
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Movie • 1974
Yvette
Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
Movie • 1976
Odette
The Coffin Affair
Movie • 1980
Noël et Juliette
Movie • 1973
Monique
Winter Claire
Movie • 2017
Mère de Claire
Child Under a Leaf
Movie • 1974
The Friend
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
Movie • 2016
Self
Laughter
Movie • 2020
Jeanne
Maternel
Movie • 2014
Pour l'amour de Dieu
Movie • 2011
Léonie (62 ans)
Souris, tu m'inquiètes
Movie • 1973
Good Neighbours
Movie • 2011
Mme. Gauthier
Streetheart
Movie • 1998
Happiness Bound
Movie • 2007
Heaven
Movie • 2000
Veuve #1
The Devil's Share
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
Arsenault and Fils
Movie • 2022
Irène
Boundaries
Movie • 2016
Where Souls Go
Movie • 2025
Louise
The Yellows
Movie • 2014
Nel
À la lumière du soir
Movie • 2025
Self
Les oubliés
Movie • 2025
Rose
Le Polock
TV • 1999
: Aurore Langlois
Curieux Bégin
TV • 2007
Self
Deux hommes en or
TV • 2013
Self
Bunker, le cirque
TV • 2002
Lise Langlois
Les poilus
TV • 2018
Self
Les Appendices
TV • 2009
Self
Pour emporter
TV • 2018
Self
L'autre midi à la table d'à côté
TV • 2020
Unite 9
TV • 2012
Élise Beaupré
En mode Salvail
TV • 2013
Self
Toute la vie
TV • 2019
Édith Leclerc
Beauté fatale
TV • 2014
Self
Le temps des framboises
TV • 2022
Martha Conley
The Disappearance
TV • 2017
Lieutenant-Detective Susan Bowden
Fatale-Station
TV • 2016
Jean O'Gallagher
Ça finit bien la semaine
TV • 2010
Self
Martin Matte en direct
TV • 2023
Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien)
Les Enfants de la télé
TV • 2010
Self
Esprit critique
TV • 2016
Self
On passe à l'Histoire
TV • 2013
Self
Viens voir les comédiens
TV • 2002
Self
Club social
TV • 2008
Self
Les p'tites vues
TV • 2007
Self
Viens-tu faire un tour?
TV • 2014
Self
Bonsoir bonsoir!
TV • 2019
Self
The Yellows
TV • 2013
Nel
Les invisibles
TV • 2019
Micheline Lanctôt
Cette année-là
TV • 2018
Self
Dans les médias
TV • 2017
Self
Zone franche
TV • 2019
Self
Esprit critique
TV • 2016
Self - Collaborator
Les héritiers Duval
TV • 1995
Y'a du monde à messe
TV • 2017
Self
À tour de rôles
TV • 2020
Self - Main Guest
On va se le dire
TV • 2019
Self
L'effet Wow
TV • 2019
Self
Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
TV • 2024
Self
STAT
TV • 2022
Josette Harvey
À cœur battant
TV • 2023
Édith Leclerc
J'ai la mémoire qui tourne
TV • 2009