Micheline Lanctôt
Micheline Lanctôt | |
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| Born | May 12, 1947 Frelighsburg, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, actress, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1972–present |
Micheline Lanctôt (born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.
Biography
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 an Etrog (now called a Genie) award for best female performance for her starring role in Gilles Carle's La vraie 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 (1984), 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.[1]
Since 1982, Lanctôt has been a part-time instructor in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University.[2][3]
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 (1984)
- Winner of the Silver Lion, Venice Film Festival for best first work, Sonatine (1984)
- Recipient of the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement (2003)
Filmography
As an actor
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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)
References
- ^ "Canadian Film Encyclopedia: Sonatine". TIFF. Archived from the original on November 3, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Micheline Lanctôt". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
- ^ "Faculty". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
External links
- 1947 births
- Actresses from Quebec
- Canadian television actresses
- Canadian television directors
- Canadian film actresses
- Canadian women film directors
- Women television directors
- Best Director Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
- Film directors from Quebec
- Living people
- People from Montérégie
- Governor General's Performing Arts Award winners
- Best Actress Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners