- Micheline Lanctôt
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Micheline Lanctôt Born May 12, 1947
Frelighsburg, CanadaOccupation Film director
Actress
ScreenwriterYears active 1972 - Present Micheline Lanctôt (born May 12, 1947 at Frelighsburg, Quebec, Canada) is an actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.
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Biography
Lanctôt's 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) before switching to film animation, which she did originally 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 an Etrog (now called a Genie) award for best female performance for her starring role in Gilles Carle's La Vrai Nature de Bernadette. Since then, she has appeared in a wide variety of film and television roles, such as Les Corps Célestes (again by Carle); Ted Kotcheff's award-winning The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Blood Relatives (by Claude Chabrol) 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 L'Homme à tout faire (1980), nominated for best direction and for best film at the Canadian Film Awards in 1981. This success was followed by Sonatine (1983), which launched the career of Pascale Bussières and won both the Genie for best direction at the Canadian Film Awards and the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Lanctôt defended Gaétan Soucy's novel La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes in the French version of Canada Reads, broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2004.
Awards and recognition
- Winner of an "Etrog" (now known as Genie), best performance by a lead actress (1972)
- Winner of the Genie, best achievement in direction, for Sonatine (1985)
- Winner of the Silver Lion, Venice Film Festival for best first work, Sonatine (1984)
Filmography
As an actor
Cinema
- La Vraie nature de Bernadette (1972) (English title: The True Nature of Bernadette)
- Les Corps célestes (1973)
- Noël et Juliette (1973)
- Souris, tu m'inquiètes (1973)
- Voyage en Grande Tartarie (1974) (English title: Voyage to Grand Tartarie)
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
- Child Under a Leaf (1974)
- Ti-Cul Tougas (1976)
- Les Liens du sang (1978) (English title: Blood Relatives)
- Blood & Guts (1978)
- Mourir à tue-tête (1979) (English title: A Scream From Silence)
- L'Affaire coffin (1980) (English title: The Coffin Affair)
- L'Oreille d'un sourd (1996)
- J'en suis! (1997) (English title: Heads or Tails)
- La Vengeance de la femme en noir (1997)
- Le Coeur au poing (1998) (English title: Streetheart)
- Aujourd'hui ou jamais (1998)
- Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore (1999) (English title: The Long Winter)
- Le Petit ciel (1999)
- Women Without Wings (2002)
- Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause (2003) (English title: How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause)
- Les Invasions barbares (2003) (English title: The Barbarian Invasions)
- Children of the Setting Suns (2003)
- A Year in the Death of Jack Richards (2004)
- Familia (2004)
- Good Neighbours (2010)
Television
- Jamais deux sans toi (1977, 1996)
- Omerta, la loi du silence (1996) (English title: Omertà)
- Réseaux (1998)
- Le Pollock (1999)
- Tag (2000)
- Bunker, le cirque (2002)
- Le Bonheur c'est une chanson triste (2004)
- Un monde à part (2004)
- Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery (2005)
As a director
Cinema
- A Token Gesture (1975)
- L'Homme à tout faire (1980) (English title: The Handyman)
- Sonatine (1984)
- Onzième spéciale (1988)
- Deux actrices (1993) (English title: Two Can Play)
- La Vie d'un héros (1994) (English title: A Hero's Life)
- Le Piège d'Issoudun (2003) (English title: Juniper Tree)
Television
- Eve (2003)
- The Stones (2004)
- Les Guerriers (2004)
As a writer
Cinema
- L'Homme à tout faire (1980) (English title: The Handyman)
- Sonatine (1984)
- Deux actrices (1993) (English title: Two Can Play)
- La Vie d'un héros (1994) (English title: A Hero's Life
- Le Piège d'Issoudun (2003) (English title: Juniper Tree)
Television
- Les Guerriers (2004)
External links
- Micheline Lanctôt at the Internet Movie Database
- Micheline Lanctôt —Canadian Film Encyclopedia
- Micheline Lanctôt — femfilm.ca: Canadian Women Film Directors Database
- Micheline Lanctôt and the 1980 Referendum
Canadian Film Award Winners for Best Actress Geneviève Bujold (1968) • Jackie Burroughs (1969) • Geneviève Bujold (1970) • Ann Knox (1971) • Micheline Lanctôt (1972) • Geneviève Bujold (1973) • no award (1974) • Margot Kidder (1975) • Marilyn Lightstone (1976) • Monique Mercure (1977) • Helen Shaver (1978)
Categories:- 1947 births
- Actors from Quebec
- Canadian television actors
- Canadian television directors
- Canadian film actors
- Canadian film directors
- Female film directors
- Female television directors
- Genie Award winners for Best Achievement in Direction
- Quebec film directors
- Living people
- People from Montérégie
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