Micheline Lanctôt
Actress · Writer
79 years (May 12, 1947)Frelighsburg, Québec, Canada
After decades in the business, Micheline Lanctôt is the kind of actress who has outlasted trends, studios and formats. The single most recognizable credit is 'Ravenous', playing Pauline. She also turns up in 'The Barbarian Invasions'. She started at 25. Drama has been the most frequent territory. Very few actresses keep finding work for 54 years.
Micheline Lanctôt
Actress · Writer
After decades in the business, Micheline Lanctôt is the kind of actress who has outlasted trends, studios and formats. The single most recognizable credit is 'Ravenous', playing Pauline. She also turns up in 'The Barbarian Invasions'. She started at 25. Drama has been the most frequent territory. Very few actresses keep finding work for 54 years.
37 Movies
Plays Madeleine
The Nature of Love
2023
Plays Nurse Carole
The Barbarian Invasions
2003
Plays Pauline
Ravenous
2017
Plays Angèle Messier
Frontiers
2023
Plays Louise
Where Souls Go
2025
Plays Irène
Arsenault and Fils
2022
Plays Entraîneure McGill
Sarah Prefers to Run
2013
Plays Mme. Gauthier
Good Neighbours
2011
Plays Mrs Carella
Blood Relatives
1978
Director
Plays Suzie
Suzie
2009
Plays Yvette
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
Plays Mairesse de St-Philémon
My Internship in Canada
2015
Plays La monteuse
A Scream from Silence
1979
Plays The Friend
Child Under a Leaf
1974
Plays Madeleine
Familia
2005
Plays Bernadette
The True Nature of Bernadette
1972
Plays Odette
Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie
1976
Plays Sweetie
The Heavenly Bodies
1973
Plays Mère
How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause
2003
Plays Rose-Aimee Bouchard
The Long Winter
1999
Plays Huissier Saisibec
Heads or Tails
1997
Plays Présidente de la chambre
Arlette
2022
Plays Arlette
Now or Never
1998
Plays Nel
The Yellows
2014
Plays Monique
Noël and Juliette
1973
Plays Lucky Brown
Blood & Guts
1978
Plays Jeanne
Laughter
2020
Plays Lucille
Early Winter
2015
Plays The Director
The Revenge of the Woman in Black
1997
Plays Julie Duceppe
A Year in the Death of Jack Richards
2005
12 TV Shows
Plays Élise Beaupré
Unite 9
2012
Plays Édith Leclerc
Toute la vie
2019
Plays Édith Leclerc
À cœur battant
2023
Plays Martha Conley
Le temps des framboises
2022
Plays Lise Langlois
Bunker, le cirque
2002
Plays Jean O'Gallagher
Fatale-Station
2016
Plays : Aurore Langlois
Le Polock
1999
Plays Susan Bowden
The Disappearance
2017
Plays Josette Harvey
STAT
2022
Plays Lucille Mallette
Omertà, la loi du silence
1996
Plays Nel
The Yellows
2013
Plays Micheline Lanctôt
Les invisibles
2019
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Frequently Asked Questions
How old is Micheline Lanctôt and where are they from?
Micheline Lanctôt is 79 years old, born on May 12, 1947 in Frelighsburg, Québec, Canada.
What are the most famous roles of Micheline Lanctôt?
Micheline Lanctôt is best known for roles in Ravenous, The Barbarian Invasions, The Nature of Love.
How many movies has Micheline Lanctôt been in?
Over a 54-year career (since 1972), Micheline Lanctôt has appeared in 37 movies and 12 TV shows.
What was Micheline Lanctôt's first movie?
The career of Micheline Lanctôt began with The True Nature of Bernadette (1972).
What is Micheline Lanctôt's most recent movie or series?
Micheline Lanctôt's most recent release is Les oubliés, which premiered on April 14, 2026.
What TV shows has Micheline Lanctôt appeared in?
On television, Micheline Lanctôt has appeared in The Disappearance, Unite 9, STAT, Omertà, la loi du silence.
Micheline Lanctôt
1947-05-12 · Frelighsburg, Québec, Canada
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.