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Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Frelighsburg, Québec, Canada

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Movie Involvements: 46

TV Involvements: 12


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Toute la vie
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Toute la vie

(2019) Édith Leclerc
Unite 9
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6

Unite 9

(2012) Élise Beaupré
L'effet Wow
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L'effet Wow

(2019) Self
On passe à l'Histoire
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Curieux Bégin
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7

Curieux Bégin

(2007) Self
Club social
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Club social

(2008) Self
The Disappearance
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8

The Disappearance

(2017) Lieutenant-Detective Susan Bowden
Les p'tites vues
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Les p'tites vues

(2007) Self

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 N/A
2023 Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien)
Madeleine
Angèle Messier
2022 Présidente de la chambre
Irène
Martha Conley
2020 N/A
Self - Main Guest
Jeanne
2019 Édith Leclerc
Self
Self
Herself
Self
Micheline Lanctôt
2018 Self
Self
Self
Self (archive footage)
2017 Mère de Claire
Lieutenant-Detective Susan Bowden
Pauline
Self
Self
2016 Jean O'Gallagher
N/A
N/A
Self
Self
Self - Collaborator
2015 Mairesse de St-Philémon
Lucille
2014 Herself
N/A
Self
2013 Self
Self
Self
Nel
Entraîneure McGill
2012 Élise Beaupré
2011 Léonie (62 ans)
Mme. Gauthier
N/A
2010 Self
Self
2009 Suzie
Self
2008 Self
2007 N/A
Self
Self
2005 Julie Duceppe
Madeleine
N/A
2004 Chauffeur (Autobus)
2003 Nurse Carole
Mère
2002 Self
Lise Langlois
2000 Veuve #1
1999 Rose-Aimee Bouchard
: Aurore Langlois
1998 Arlette
N/A
1997 The Director
Huissier Saisibec
1996 N/A
1995 N/A
1994 N/A
1980 N/A
1979 La monteuse
1978 Lucky Brown
Mrs Carella
1976 Odette
1974 The Friend
Yvette
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1973 Monique
Sweetie
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1972 Bernadette
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Writing

Editing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2003 Editor
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Art

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1975 Production Design
Year Role Movie/Tv

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