Cast & creator
Micheline Lanctôt
Best known for Bonsoir bonsoir!, According to Jim, STAT
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. Since 1982, Lanctôt has been a part-time instructor in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University. 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. 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.
81
film credits
44
television credits
96
1972–2026 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (125)
Showing 125 of 125 credits
Bonsoir bonsoir!
Self
2019
According to Jim
Director
2001
STAT
Josette Harvey
2022
Les Enfants de la télé
Self
2010
En mode Salvail
Self
2013
On va se le dire
Self
2019
Y'a du monde à messe
Self
2017
Deux hommes en or
Self
2013
Unite 9
Élise Beaupré
2012
Dans les médias
Self
2017
Ça finit bien la semaine
Self
2010
Cette année-là
Self
2018
Toute la vie
Édith Leclerc
2019
Sucré salé
Self
2002
Curieux Bégin
Self
2007
Viens voir les comédiens
Self
2002
The Disappearance
Susan Bowden
2017
Les Appendices
Self
2009
Esprit critique
Self
2016Esprit critique
Self - Collaborator
2016
Le temps des framboises
Martha Conley
2022
On passe à l'Histoire
Self
2013
Les invisibles
Micheline Lanctôt
2019Club social
Self
2008
Viens-tu faire un tour?
Self
2014
Les poilus
Self
2018
Omertà, la loi du silence
Lucille Mallette
1996
Pour emporter
Self
2018
L'autre midi à la table d'à côté
2020
À cœur battant
Édith Leclerc
2023
39-45 en sol canadien
Self
2021
L'effet Wow
Self
2019
À tour de rôles
Self - Main Guest
2020
The Yellows
Nel
2013
Zone franche
Self
2019
Ravenous
Pauline
2017
Martin Matte en direct
Tireuse de couteaux (Le dernier lien)
2023
The Nature of Love
Madeleine
2023
Dans un cinéma près de chez vous
Self
2024
J'ai la mémoire qui tourne
2009
The Barbarian Invasions
Nurse Carole
2003
Le Polock
: Aurore Langlois
1999
Blood Relatives
Mrs Carella
1978
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Yvette
1974
Les oubliés
Rose
2026
Sarah Prefers to Run
Entraîneure McGill
2013
Good Neighbours
Mme. Gauthier
2011
Bunker, le cirque
Lise Langlois
2002
Fatale-Station
Jean O'Gallagher
2016Les p'tites vues
Self
2007
The Juniper Tree
Writer
2003The Juniper Tree
Director
2003The Juniper Tree
Editor
2003
Nitro Rush
2016
Suzie
Suzie
2009Suzie
Director
2009Suzie
Writer
2009
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
Mère
2003
My Internship in Canada
Mairesse de St-Philémon
2015
Others
Director
2015Others
Writer
2015
Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery
2005
Where Souls Go
Louise
2025
Les héritiers Duval
1995
Arsenault and Fils
Irène
2022
The Long Winter
Rose-Aimee Bouchard
1999
Frontiers
Angèle Messier
2023
The Handyman
Director
1980The Handyman
Writer
1980
Joy and Elation
2013
Pour l'amour de Dieu
Léonie (62 ans)
2011Pour l'amour de Dieu
Writer
2011Pour l'amour de Dieu
Director
2011
A Way of Life
Director
2019A Way of Life
Writer
2019
The Devil's Share
Self (archive footage)
2018
A Scream from Silence
La monteuse
1979
Happiness is a Sad Song
Chauffeur (Autobus)
2004
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
Self
2016
Happiness Bound
2007
The Revenge of the Woman in Black
The Director
1997
Child Under a Leaf
The Friend
1974
Streetheart
1998
You Are Not Alone
Lucy
2024
The True Nature of Bernadette
Bernadette
1972
Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
Odette
1976
Blood & Guts
Lucky Brown
1978
9
Director
2016
A Hero's Life
Director
1994A Hero's Life
Writer
1994
Voyage to Grand Tartarie
1974
Heads or Tails
Huissier Saisibec
1997
Maternel
2014
Arlette
Présidente de la chambre
2022
Now or Never
Arlette
1998
Noël and Juliette
Monique
1973
The Heavenly Bodies
Sweetie
1973
Boundaries
2016
L'oreille d'un sourd
1996Un château de cartes
Special Effects
A Year in the Death of Jack Richards
Julie Duceppe
2005
À la lumière du soir
Self
2025
Familia
Madeleine
2005
La ligne de chaleur
Screenplay
1987
Souris, tu m'inquiètes
1973
The Yellows
Nel
2014
Sonatine
Director
1984Sonatine
Screenplay
1984Beauté fatale
Self
2014
Laughter
Jeanne
2020
La poursuite du bonheur
Director
1987
Ruth
1994
The Coffin Affair
1980
Early Winter
Lucille
2015
Les Guerriers
Director
2004Les Guerriers
Writer
2004Two Can Play
Writer
1993Two Can Play
Director
1993
Heaven
Veuve #1
2000
Women Without Wings
Zef
2002
Winter Claire
Mère de Claire
2017
Score
2011
A Token Gesture
Production Design
1975A Token Gesture
Director
1975
Onzième spéciale
Director
1988