Micheline Lanctôt
Date of birth: 1947-05-12
Place of birth: Frelighsburg, Québec, Canada
Known for: Acting
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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.
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Frontiers
2023-03-03
Diane Messier lives on a farm in the Eastern Townships, near the American border, with her daughter
The Nature of Love
2023-09-22
Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Syl
Blood Relatives
1978-02-01
A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.
Sarah Prefers to Run
2013-05-21
When Sarah has a chance to go to a first class university and to join its premiere athletic club, he
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
2003-02-07
Jean-Charles has an unusual relationship with his mother. He can't break free of her influence even
The True Nature of Bernadette
1972-05-06
Bernadette has a yen to chuck it all and go back to nature, in this French-language Canadian film. T
Voyage to Grand Tartarie
1974-03-06
After the murder of his wife Alexis is devastated. He withdraws all his savings and embarks on a jou
The Heavenly Bodies
1973-09-20
A pimp and his seven working girls move to a small conservative mining town in northern Quebec to es
L'oreille d'un sourd
1996-05-28
A philandering wife and a sleazy womanizing con-man team up to off a troublesome father-in-law in th
Happiness is a Sad Song
2004-05-11
The disjointed story of Anne-Marie, an unemployed publicist pounding the pavement in Montreal with h
Familia
2005-09-15
When gambling addict Michele moves in with her childhood friend Janine, their teenaged daughter’s bu
The Revenge of the Woman in Black
1997-03-27
A psychotic man and an obsessed police officer make life unbearable for an unlucky actor by making h
Suzie
2009-04-17
Suzie, a 58 year old depressed taxi driver on the night shift. On Halloween, she finds a 10 year old
A Year in the Death of Jack Richards
2005-10-02
Jack Richards, a professor in his 50's, has apparently gone mad over the supposed abduction of his d
The Long Winter
1999-03-13
In 1838, François-Xavier Bouchard fights beside his Québec countrymen and the English minority.
Blood & Guts
1978-09-15
A young athelete becomes the unlikely star of an itinerant wrestling troupe, and a rival promoter wi
You Are Not Alone
2024-12-12
Leo, a lonely, anxious pizza delivery guy, stumbles upon John, a mysterious taxi driver seeking lone
Arlette
2022-08-05
Approached by the Prime Minister of Quebec to rejuvenate the image of his government, Arlette Saint-
Score
2011-04-21
Audrey and David wash their dirty linen in public while debating the question : "How much is too muc
Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
2005-05-19
Everybody's guilty of something and Detective Stephen Tree has to use his gut to figure if their gui
Early Winter
2015-08-12
The life of a security guard in a retirement home spirals out of control when he catches his wife wi
My Internship in Canada
2015-10-02
Guibord is an independent Member of Parliament who represents Prescott-Makadewà-Rapides-aux Outardes
The Barbarian Invasions
2003-05-01
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college profess
A Scream from Silence
1979-09-14
A director and an editor, both women, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without
Nitro Rush
2016-08-31
Max learns that his 17-year-old son Theo has just been recruited by a criminal organization. Despera
Heads or Tails
1997-03-14
A heterosexual man pretends to be gay in order to keep his career in the world of art, which causes
Now or Never
1998-09-16
A pilot who has not flown in years due to an accident has to deal with unexpected visitors and finan
Ruth
1994-08-31
Ruth is the story of a painful adolescence. Ruth decides on a whim to leave her small village in the
Ravenous
2017-09-23
In an isolated rural community of Quebec, Canada, some inhabitants attack other people, hungry for h
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974-04-11
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name fo
Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
1976-10-08
In this Canadian character study, a petty thief steals $5,000 from a marching band and heads to the
The Coffin Affair
1980-09-10
In 1953, in the Gaspé forest, there are three bodies half eaten by bears. Fearing repercussions on t
Noël et Juliette
1973-12-26
Winter Claire
2017-10-11
As a malfunctioning cargo spaceship is threatening to crash to the Earth, Claire is going through a
Child Under a Leaf
1974-10-11
A restless woman seems unable to leave her husband or her lover.
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
2016-07-18
Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this document
Laughter
2020-01-31
As a civil war shakes the Quebec province of Canada, Valerie is the sole survivor of a mass executio
Maternel
2014-06-06
Pour l'amour de Dieu
2011-09-02
Montréal, 1959. In the classroom of Sister Cecilia, Leonie (aged 11) first met Father Malachy, a you
Souris, tu m'inquiètes
1973-01-01
Good Neighbours
2011-06-03
Neighbors Spencer and Louise have bonded over their fascination with a recent string of murders terr
Streetheart
1998-09-14
Louise is living in Montreal, unemployed. Her sister Paulette often gives her a hard time. She only
Happiness Bound
2007-09-28
Poetry and cinema merge as 11 filmmakers bring to life 21 poems by Québécois poets.
Heaven
2000-03-15
Heaven is a place with crumbling ceilings, an aging Jesus, and angels and saints entertained by huma
The Devil's Share
2018-02-16
Quebec, on the cusp of the 1960s. The province is on the brink of momentous change. Deftly selecting
Arsenault and Fils
2022-06-17
The Arsenaults, a close-knit family who profit from illegal hunting, have ruled the roost for severa
Boundaries
2016-11-18
Emily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politici
Where Souls Go
2025-11-14
Before resorting to assisted death, an 18-year-old girl summons her two sisters, who are still traum
The Yellows
2014-08-03
An epidemic of yellow crawling brains threatens the lives of inhabitants in a reclusive Northern Que
À la lumière du soir
2025-03-17
At 97, filmmaker Fernand Dansereau delivers a vibrant and inspiring final documentary! He draws us i
Les oubliés
2025-11-11