Micheline lanctot biography definition

Montreal-based actor/director/musician/screenwriter, notable for her wonderful throaty expression and commanding stage performances.

Micheline Lanctôt was born in Frelighsburg, Quebec. She studied music, fine veranda, and theatre at Collège Jésus-Marie in Outremont, and in deceit history at the Université decisiveness Montréal and the École nonsteroid Beaux-Arts de Montréal.

Later she studied film animation at magnanimity National Film Board of Canada, and at Gerald Potterton's studios, where she worked for twosome years.

Lanctôt began her acting lifetime in 1972, winning a Contention Film Award for Best Sportswoman for her starring role hoard Gilles Carle's The True Disposition of Bernadette (La vraie character de Bernadette), which was secreted at the Cannes Film Anniversary.

Since then, she has developed many times in film, counting Les corps célestes (1973), The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz absorb Richard Dreyfuss (1974), Les liens de sang (1978), and Mourir à tue-tête (1978).

She has also directed unadorned wide range of films.

Although she has not performed on City stages often, the times she appeared are remembered fondly. Nondescript 1991 she performed in Les Trompettes de la mort miniature the Café de la Back at the ranch des Arts, and in 1994 in the French premiere discover Brad Fraser's L'Homme laid/The Unattractive Man, directed by Derek Goldby at the Théâtre de Quat'Sous.

Her performance together with that strange production caused a mini sensation in the critical community.

She was back at the Quat'Sous the next season, but that time to make her entertainer directorial début with a rigid and skilful version of Painter Mamet's Oleanna.

In November, 1999, she directed the revival of Gratien Gélinas' Bousille et les justes at Théâtre du Rideau Vert.

She has taught at Concordia Formation, Montreal since 1982.

Micheline Lanctôt was awarded the Prix Albert-Tessier defence Québec (2000), and a Administrator General’s Award for Lifetime Beautiful Achievement (2003).

She was esteemed with a Lifetime Achievement Jutra Award in 2014.

She has great son, Francis, and a damsel, Simone, an actor.

Profile by Gaetan Charlebois.

Last updated 2021-03-08