
Acting
Born May 12, 1947 · Frelighsburg, Québec, Canada
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.

Where Souls Go
2025

Les oubliés
2025

À la lumière du soir
2025

You Are Not Alone
2024

The Nature of Love
2023

Frontiers
2023

Arlette
2022

Arsenault and Fils
2022

Laughter
2020

The Devil's Share
2018

Winter Claire
2017

Ravenous
2017

Boundaries
2016

Nitro Rush
2016

Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
2016

My Internship in Canada
2015

Early Winter
2015

The Yellows
2014
Maternel
2014

Sarah Prefers to Run
2013

Pour l'amour de Dieu
2011

Good Neighbours
2011

Score
2011

Suzie
2009

Happiness Bound
2007

A Year in the Death of Jack Richards
2005

Familia
2005

Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
2005

Happiness is a Sad Song
2004

The Barbarian Invasions
2003