Micheline Lanctôt

Micheline Lanctôt born May 12 1947 is a Canadian actress film director screenwriter and musician Lanctôt was born in Frelighsburg Quebec Her postsecondary education was in music fine arts and theatre at Collège JésusMarie in Outremont and in art history at the Université de Montréal and the École des BeauxArts de Montréal she later studied film animation at the National Film Board of Canada NFB and then at Gerald Pottertons 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 Carles 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 Carles The Heavenly Bodies Les Corps Célestes Ted Kotcheffs awardwinning The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Claude Chabrols Blood Relatives and Guy Fourniers RadioCanada TV series Jamais deux sans toi She has directed for the theatre also directing Oleanna by David Mamet for the Théâtre de QuatSous in Montreal in 1994 and in 1999 Bousille et les justes by Gratien Gélinas for the Théâtre du Rideau Vert She began her liveaction filmdirecting career with The Handyman LHomme 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 nowdefunct Silver Lion for Best First Film 19831987 at the 41st Venice International Film Festival Since 1982 Lanctôt has been a parttime instructor in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University Lanctôt defended Gaétan Soucys 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 RivièreduLoup 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 years best Quebec film