Age, Biography and Wiki
Who is it? | Actress, Director, Writer |
Birth Day | May 12, 1947 |
Birth Place | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Age | 76 YEARS OLD |
Birth Sign | Gemini |
Occupation | Film director, actress, screenwriter |
Years active | 1972–present |
Net worth
Micheline Lanctôt, a renowned actress, director, and writer hailing from Canada, is expected to have an estimated net worth ranging between $100K and $1M in the year 2024. With a successful career that spans decades, Lanctôt has firmly established herself as a prominent figure in the Canadian entertainment industry. Her talents have consistently shone through in various projects, showcasing her versatility and skill both in front of and behind the camera. As an accomplished actress, director, and writer, her contributions have undoubtedly contributed to her growing financial success, cementing her place as a respected and influential figure within the Canadian creative scene.
Biography/Timeline
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 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.
Since 1982, Lanctôt has been a part-time instructor in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University.
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.
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.