
Micheline Lanctôt
Known for Acting · 90 credits
- Born
- 1947-05-12 (age 79)
- Place of birth
- Frelighsburg, Québec, Canada
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.
Known For
TV Shows (39)

STAT
2022
as Josette Harvey

En mode Salvail
2013
as Self

Bonsoir bonsoir!
2019
as Self

Les Enfants de la télé
2010
as Self

On va se le dire
2019
as Self

Unite 9
2012
as Élise Beaupré

Ça finit bien la semaine
2010
as Self

Y'a du monde à messe
2017
as Self

Viens voir les comédiens
2002
as Self

Toute la vie
2019
as Édith Leclerc

Dans les médias
2017
as Self

Deux hommes en or
2013
as Self

Curieux Bégin
2007
as Self

Cette année-là
2018
as Self

Les Appendices
2009
as Self

The Disappearance
2017
as Lieutenant-Detective Susan Bowden

Esprit critique
2016
as Self / Self - Collaborator
Club social
2008
as Self

Viens-tu faire un tour?
2014
as Self

L'autre midi à la table d'à côté
2020

Pour emporter
2018
as Self

On passe à l'Histoire
2013
as Self

À tour de rôles
2020
as Self - Main Guest

Le temps des framboises
2022
as Martha Conley

L'effet Wow
2019
as Self

Les poilus
2018
as Self

À cœur battant
2023
as Édith Leclerc

The Yellows
2013
as Nel

Zone franche
2019
as Self

Les invisibles
2019
as Micheline Lanctôt

Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
2024
as Self

Martin Matte en direct
2023
as Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien)

Fatale-Station
2016
as Jean O'Gallagher

Bunker, le cirque
2002
as Lise Langlois
Les p'tites vues
2007
as Self

Les héritiers Duval
1995
Beauté fatale
2014
as Self

Le Polock
1999
as : Aurore Langlois

J'ai la mémoire qui tourne
2009
Movies (51)

Ravenous
2017
as Pauline

Good Neighbours
2011
as Mme. Gauthier

The Nature of Love
2023
as Madeleine

The Barbarian Invasions
2003
as Nurse Carole

Nitro Rush
2016

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
as Yvette

Arsenault and Fils
2022
as Irène

Blood & Guts
1978
as Lucky Brown

Les oubliés
2026
as Rose

The Heavenly Bodies
1973
as Sweetie

My Internship in Canada
2015
as Mairesse de St-Philémon

Heads or Tails
1997
as Huissier Saisibec

Arlette
2022
as Présidente de la chambre

Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
2005

The Long Winter
1999
as Rose-Aimee Bouchard

Blood Relatives
1978
as Mrs Carella

Pour l'amour de Dieu
2011
as Léonie (62 ans)

Sarah Prefers to Run
2013
as Entraîneure McGill

The Revenge of the Woman in Black
1997
as The Director

Frontiers
2023
as Angèle Messier

Suzie
2009
as Suzie

How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
2003
as Mère

Familia
2005
as Madeleine

Boundaries
2016

You Are Not Alone
2024
as Lucy

Streetheart
1998

Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
2016
as Self

The Devil's Share
2018
as Self (archive footage)

Child Under a Leaf
1974
as The Friend

Voyage to Grand Tartarie
1974

Now or Never
1998
as Arlette

Happiness is a Sad Song
2004
as Chauffeur (Autobus)

Laughter
2020
as Jeanne

A Scream from Silence
1979
as La monteuse

Early Winter
2015
as Lucille

The Coffin Affair
1980

The True Nature of Bernadette
1972
as Bernadette

Where Souls Go
2025
as Louise

Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
1976
as Odette

The Yellows
2014
as Nel

A Year in the Death of Jack Richards
2005
as Julie Duceppe

À la lumière du soir
2025
as Self

Happiness Bound
2007

L'oreille d'un sourd
1996

Heaven
2000
as Veuve #1

Ruth
1994

Score
2011

Noël et Juliette
1973
as Monique

Maternel
2014

Souris, tu m'inquiètes
1973

Winter Claire
2017
as Mère de Claire
About 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… With 90 credits spanning from 1972 to 2026, Micheline Lanctôt has appeared in 51 films and 39 TV shows.
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- Ravenous (2017) — as Pauline
- Good Neighbours (2011) — as Mme. Gauthier
- The Nature of Love (2023) — as Madeleine
- The Barbarian Invasions (2003) — as Nurse Carole
- Nitro Rush (2016)
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