Micheline Lanctôt

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Micheline Lanctôt (born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.<ref>Peter Harcourt, "Micheline Lanctôt". The Canadian Encyclopedia, February 16, 2012.</ref>

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 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),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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,<ref>Bruce Bailey, "Daniel Petrie's 'Bay Boy' harbors six Genie Awards". Montreal Gazette, March 22, 1985.</ref> and the now-defunct Silver Lion for Best First Film (1983-1987) at the 41st Venice International Film Festival.<ref>"Lanctot wins award for Sonatine". The Globe and Mail, September 10, 1984.</ref>

Since 1982, Lanctôt has been a part-time instructor in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University.<ref>Suzan Ayscough, "Canada Film School Survey: Reports from Quebec and Atlantic Canada". Point of View, November 1, 2011.</ref>

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.<ref>François Lévesque, "Amener le cinéma au monde". Le Devoir, February 3, 2016.</ref> 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.<ref>Léa Harvey, "Micheline Lanctôt: faire la promotion du cinéma d’auteur en région". Le Nouvelliste, August 15, 2022.</ref>

Awards and recognition

Filmography

Film

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1975 A Token Gesture Template:Yes Template:No
1980 The Handyman (L'Homme à tout faire) Template:Yes Template:Yes
1984 Sonatine Template:Yes Template:Yes
1987 The Pursuit of Happiness (La Poursuite du bonheur) Template:Yes Template:No
1988 Onzième spéciale Template:Yes Template:No
The Heat Line (La ligne de chaleur) Template:No Template:Yes
1993 Two Can Play (Deux actrices) Template:Yes Template:Yes
1994 A Hero's Life (La Vie d'un héros) Template:Yes Template:Yes
2003 Juniper Tree (Le Piège d'Issoudun) Template:Yes Template:Yes
2009 Suzie Template:Yes Template:No
2011 For the Love of God (Pour l'amour de Dieu) Template:Yes Template:No
2015 The Handout (Autrui) Template:Yes Template:No
2016 9 (9, le film) Template:Yes Template:No
2019 A Way of Life (Une manière de vivre) Template:Yes Template:No

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Television

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  • {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} - 1977, 1996
  • Template:Ill - 1996
  • {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} - 1998
  • Le Pollock - 1999
  • Tag (2000)
  • {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} - 2002
  • {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} - 2004
  • {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} - 2004
  • Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery - 2005
  • {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} - 2012-2015
  • The Disappearance - 2017

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  • Eve (2003)
  • The Stones (2004)
  • Les Guerriers (2004) (Also writer)

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