Acting
Micheline Lanctôt
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
Les oubliés
Film · 2026
Where Souls Go
Film · 2025
À la lumière du soir
Film · 2025
You Are Not Alone
Film · 2024
Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
Series · 2024
Frontiers
Film · 2023
The Nature of Love
Film · 2023
Martin Matte en direct
Series · 2023
À cœur battant
Series · 2023
Arlette
Film · 2022
Arsenault and Fils
Film · 2022
Le temps des framboises
Series · 2022
STAT
Series · 2022
39-45 en sol canadien
Series · 2021
Laughter
Film · 2020
L'autre midi à la table d'à côté
Series · 2020
À tour de rôles
Series · 2020
Toute la vie
Series · 2019
Bonsoir bonsoir!
Series · 2019
Les invisibles
Series · 2019
Zone franche
Series · 2019
On va se le dire
Series · 2019
L'effet Wow
Series · 2019
The Devil's Share
Film · 2018
Les poilus
Series · 2018
Pour emporter
Series · 2018
Cette année-là
Series · 2018
Ravenous
Film · 2017
Winter Claire
Film · 2017
The Disappearance
Series · 2017
Dans les médias
Series · 2017
Y'a du monde à messe
Series · 2017
Nitro Rush
Film · 2016
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
Film · 2016
Boundaries
Film · 2016
Fatale-Station
Series · 2016
Esprit critique
Series · 2016
Esprit critique
Series · 2016
Early Winter
Film · 2015
My Internship in Canada
Film · 2015
Maternel
Film · 2014
The Yellows
Film · 2014
Beauté fatale
Series · 2014
Viens-tu faire un tour?
Series · 2014
Sarah Prefers to Run
Film · 2013
Joy and Elation
Film · 2013
Deux hommes en or
Series · 2013
En mode Salvail
Series · 2013
On passe à l'Histoire
Series · 2013
The Yellows
Series · 2013
Unite 9
Series · 2012
Score
Film · 2011
Pour l'amour de Dieu
Film · 2011
Good Neighbours
Film · 2011
Ça finit bien la semaine
Series · 2010
Les Enfants de la télé
Series · 2010
Suzie
Film · 2009
Les Appendices
Series · 2009
J'ai la mémoire qui tourne
Series · 2009
Club social
Series · 2008
Happiness Bound
Film · 2007
Curieux Bégin
Series · 2007
Les p'tites vues
Series · 2007
Familia
Film · 2005
A Year in the Death of Jack Richards
Film · 2005
Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
Film · 2005
Happiness is a Sad Song
Film · 2004
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
Film · 2003
The Barbarian Invasions
Film · 2003
Women Without Wings
Film · 2002
Bunker, le cirque
Series · 2002
Viens voir les comédiens
Series · 2002
Sucré salé
Series · 2002
Heaven
Film · 2000
The Long Winter
Film · 1999
Le Polock
Series · 1999
Now or Never
Film · 1998
Streetheart
Film · 1998
The Revenge of the Woman in Black
Film · 1997
Heads or Tails
Film · 1997
L'oreille d'un sourd
Film · 1996
Omertà, la loi du silence
Series · 1996
Les héritiers Duval
Series · 1995
Ruth
Film · 1994
The Coffin Affair
Film · 1980
A Scream from Silence
Film · 1979
Blood Relatives
Film · 1978
Blood & Guts
Film · 1978
Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
Film · 1976
Voyage to Grand Tartarie
Film · 1974
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Film · 1974
Child Under a Leaf
Film · 1974
The Heavenly Bodies
Film · 1973
Noël and Juliette
Film · 1973
Souris, tu m'inquiètes
Film · 1973
The True Nature of Bernadette
Film · 1972