Micheline Lanctôt (born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.

Biography

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 The Université de Montréal (; UdeM; ) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on M ...

and the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal; she later studied film animation at the

National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; ) is a Canadian public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary films, animation, web documentaries, and altern ...

(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 The Canadian Film Awards were the leading Canadian cinema awards from 1949 until 1978. These honours were conducted annually, except in 1974 when a number of Quebec directors withdrew their participation and prompted a cancellation. In the 1970s ...

for Best Actress for her starring role in

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'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)'',

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's award-winning '' The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'',

Claude Chabrol Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (''nouvelle vague'') group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues an ...

's ''Blood Relatives'' and Guy Fournier's

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TV series '' Jamais deux sans toi''. She has directed for the theatre also, directing ''Oleanna'' by

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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

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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 The Silver Lion (, also known as Silver Lion for Best Direction) is an annual award presented for best directing achievements in a feature film in the official competition section of the Venice Film Festival since 1998. The prize has been awar ...

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

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. Lanctôt defended

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's novel ''

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(La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes)'' in the 2004 edition of ''

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'', broadcast on Première Chaîne. In 2016 she was the curator of the Festival Vues dans la tête de... film festival in

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. She is also a matron of the

Prix collégial du cinéma québécois The Prix collégial du cinéma québécois is an annual Canadian film award, presented to a film from Quebec judged as the best of the year by a jury of students in film studies programs at the province's CEGEPs.Léa Carrier"Je m’appelle humain re ...

, an annual program engaging film studies students in Quebec

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s to present an award for the year's best Quebec film.Léa Harvey
"Micheline Lanctôt: faire la promotion du cinéma d’auteur en région"
'' Le Nouvelliste'', August 15, 2022.

Awards and recognition

*Winner of an

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(now known as

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), best performance by a lead actress (1972) *Winner of the Genie, best achievement in direction, for '' Sonatine'' (1984) *Winner of the Silver Lion,

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the ...

for best first work, ''Sonatine'' (1984) *Recipient of the

Governor General's Performing Arts Award The Governor General's Performing Arts Awards are an annual Canadian award, presented to honour distinguished achievements in Canadian performing arts and culture. Administered by the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation in associ ...

for Lifetime Artistic Achievement (2003)

Filmography

Film

Acting roles * '' The True Nature of Bernadette (La Vraie nature de Bernadette)'' - 1972 * '' The Heavenly Bodies (Les Corps célestes)'' - 1973 * ''Noël et Juliette'' - 1973 * ''Souris, tu m'inquiètes'' - 1973 * ''Voyage to Grand Tartarie (Voyage en Grande Tartarie)'' - 1974 * '' The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' - 1974 * '' Child Under a Leaf'' - 1974 * ''

Little Tougas ''Little Tougas'' () is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Jean-Guy Noël and released in 1976. Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 128. The film stars Claude Maher as Rémi Tougas, a musician who is hi ...

(Ti-Cul Tougas)'' - 1976 * '' Blood Relatives (Les Liens du sang)'' - 1978 * '' Blood and Guts'' - 1978 * '' A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête)'' - 1979 * '' The Coffin Affair (L'Affaire Coffin)'' - 1980 * ''L'Oreille d'un sourd'' - 1996 * '' Heads or Tails (J'en suis!)'' - 1997 * '' The Revenge of the Woman in Black (La Vengeance de la femme en noir)'' - 1997 * '' Streetheart (Le Coeur au poing)'' - 1998 * '' Now or Never (Aujourd'hui ou jamais)'' - 1998 * '' The Long Winter (Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore)'' - 1999 * ''Le Petit ciel'' - 1999 * ''Women Without Wings'' - 2002 * '' How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause (Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause)'' - 2003 * ''

The Barbarian Invasions ''The Barbarian Invasions'' () is a 2003 Canadian-French sex comedy-Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau and Marie-Josée Croze. The film is a sequel to Arcand ...

(Les Invasions barbares)'' - 2003 * ''Children of the Setting Suns'' - 2003 * '' A Year in the Death of Jack Richards'' - 2004 * '' Familia'' - 2004 * '' Good Neighbours'' - 2010 * '' Sarah Prefers to Run (Sarah préfère la course)'' - 2013 * '' Winter Claire (Claire l'hiver)'' - 2017 * ''

Laughter Laughter is a pleasant physical reaction and emotion consisting usually of rhythmical, usually audible contractions of the diaphragm and other parts of the respiratory system. It is a response to certain external or internal stimuli. Laug ...

(Le Rire)'' - 2020 * '' Family Game (Arsenault et fils)'' - 2022 * '' Frontiers (Frontières)'' - 2023 * '' The Nature of Love (Simple comme Sylvain)'' - 2023 * ''

You Are Not Alone "You Are Not Alone" is a song by American singer Michael Jackson from his ninth studio album, ''HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I'' (1995). It was released on August 15, 1995, by Epic Records, Epic and Sony Music, Sony, as the second s ...

(Vous n'êtes pas seul)'' - 2024

Television

Actress * ' - 1977, 1996 * '' - 1996 * ' - 1998 * ''Le Pollock'' - 1999 * ''Tag'' (2000) * ' - 2002 * ' - 2004 * ' - 2004 * ''Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery'' - 2005 * ' - 2012-2015 * '' The Disappearance'' - 2017 Director * ''Eve'' (2003) * ''The Stones'' (2004) * ''Les Guerriers'' (2004) (Also writer)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lanctot, Micheline 1947 births Actresses from Quebec Canadian television actresses Canadian television directors Canadian film actresses Canadian women film directors Canadian women television directors Best Director Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners Film directors from Quebec Living people People from Montérégie Best Actress Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners Prix Albert-Tessier winners Governor General's Award winners