Micheline Lanctôt

Micheline Lanctôt (born May 12, 1947 at Frelighsburg, Quebec, Canada) is an actor, film director, screenwriter, and musician. 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 in Montreal) before switching to film animation, which she did originally at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and then at Gerald P... more

Micheline Lanctôt (born May 12, 1947 at Frelighsburg, Quebec, Canada) is an actor, film director, screenwriter, and musician. 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 in Montreal) 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.... less