Acting · Frelighsburg, Québec, Canada · Born May 12, 1947
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.
MovieLes oubliés
2026
as Rose
MovieWhere Souls Go
2025
as Louise
MovieÀ la lumière du soir
2025
as Self
MovieYou Are Not Alone
2024
as Lucy
TVDans un cinéma près de chez vous
2024
as Self
TVMartin Matte en direct
2023
as Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien)
MovieThe Nature of Love
2023
as Madeleine
MovieFrontiers
2023
as Angèle Messier
TVÀ cœur battant
2023
as Édith Leclerc
TVSTAT
2022
as Josette Harvey
MovieArlette
2022
as Présidente de la chambre
MovieArsenault and Fils
2022
as Irène
TVLe temps des framboises
2022
as Martha Conley
TV39-45 en sol canadien
2021
as Self
TVL'autre midi à la table d'à côté
2020
TVÀ tour de rôles
2020
as Self - Main Guest
MovieLaughter
2020
as Jeanne
TVToute la vie
2019
as Édith Leclerc
TVOn va se le dire
2019
as Self
TVBonsoir bonsoir!
2019
as Self
TVZone franche
2019
as Self
TVL'effet Wow
2019
as Self
TVLes invisibles
2019
as Micheline Lanctôt
TVCette année-là
2018
as Self
TVPour emporter
2018
as Self
TVLes poilus
2018
as Self
MovieThe Devil's Share
2018
as Self (archive footage)
MovieWinter Claire
2017
as Mère de Claire
TVThe Disappearance
2017
as Lieutenant-Detective Susan Bowden
MovieRavenous
2017
as Pauline
TVDans les médias
2017
as Self
TVY'a du monde à messe
2017
as Self
TVFatale-Station
2016
as Jean O'Gallagher
MovieBoundaries
2016
MovieNitro Rush
2016
MovieLes réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
2016
as Self
TVEsprit critique
2016
as Self
MovieMy Internship in Canada
2015
as Mairesse de St-Philémon
MovieEarly Winter
2015
as Lucille
Beauté fatale
2014
as Self
MovieThe Yellows
2014
as Nel
MovieMaternel
2014
TVViens-tu faire un tour?
2014
as Self
TVEn mode Salvail
2013
as Self
TVOn passe à l'Histoire
2013
as Self
TVDeux hommes en or
2013
as Self
TVThe Yellows
2013
as Nel
MovieSarah Prefers to Run
2013
as Entraîneure McGill
TVUnite 9
2012
as Élise Beaupré
MoviePour l'amour de Dieu
2011
as Léonie (62 ans)
MovieGood Neighbours
2011
as Mme. Gauthier
MovieScore
2011
TVÇa finit bien la semaine
2010
as Self
TVLes Enfants de la télé
2010
as Self
TVJ'ai la mémoire qui tourne
2009
MovieSuzie
2009
as Suzie
TVLes Appendices
2009
as Self
Club social
2008
as Self
MovieHappiness Bound
2007
TVCurieux Bégin
2007
as Self
Les p'tites vues
2007
as Self
MovieA Year in the Death of Jack Richards
2005
as Julie Duceppe
MovieFamilia
2005
as Madeleine
MovieTripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
2005
MovieHappiness is a Sad Song
2004
as Chauffeur (Autobus)
MovieThe Barbarian Invasions
2003
as Nurse Carole
MovieHow My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
2003
as Mère
TVViens voir les comédiens
2002
as Self
TVBunker, le cirque
2002
as Lise Langlois
MovieHeaven
2000
as Veuve #1
MovieThe Long Winter
1999
as Rose-Aimee Bouchard
TVLe Polock
1999
as : Aurore Langlois
MovieNow or Never
1998
as Arlette
MovieStreetheart
1998
MovieThe Revenge of the Woman in Black
1997
as The Director
MovieHeads or Tails
1997
as Huissier Saisibec
MovieL'oreille d'un sourd
1996
TVLes héritiers Duval
1995
MovieRuth
1994
MovieThe Coffin Affair
1980
MovieA Scream from Silence
1979
as La monteuse
MovieBlood & Guts
1978
as Lucky Brown
MovieBlood Relatives
1978
as Mrs Carella
MovieTi-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
1976
as Odette
MovieChild Under a Leaf
1974
as The Friend
MovieThe Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
as Yvette
MovieVoyage to Grand Tartarie
1974
MovieNoël and Juliette
1973
as Monique
MovieThe Heavenly Bodies
1973
as Sweetie
MovieSouris, tu m'inquiètes
1973
MovieThe True Nature of Bernadette
1972
as Bernadette
