Dakota Ray Hebert is a Dene comedian, actress and writer from Canada.Bryan Eneas, "Comedy the vehicle for sensitive racial topics in new Saskatoon play". CBC News Saskatoon, March 4, 2019. She is most noted for her performance in the 2021 film Run Woman Run, for which she won the awards for Best Actress at the 2021 American Indian Film FestivalVincent Schilling, "American Indian Film Festival: 126 films, 30 nominees, 6 winners". Indian Country Today, November 7, 2021. and Best Performance at the 2022 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival.Victoria Ahearn, "Run Woman Run crosses finish line with three awards at VIWFF". Playback, March 14, 2022.
Originally from Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Hebert first became known as a stage actress, including in productions of Tara Beagan's Dreary and Izzy,Christine Hinzmann, "Family matters; Theatre North West presents Dreary and Izzy". Prince George Citizen, January 22, 2016. Falen Johnson's Salt BabyCam Fuller, "Salt Baby; A question of identity". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, May 12, 2016. and Ellie Moon's This Was the World.J. Kelly Nestruck, "A sly and screwy take on the campus culture wars: Playwright Ellie Moon’s latest follows a white professor of Indigenous law who may know what to say – but not when to shut up". The Globe and Mail, February 13, 2020. In 2019, she both wrote and directed the play Native Studies 101 for the Gordon Tootoosis Nīkānīwin Theatre in Saskatoon.
In 2022 she released her debut comedy album I'll Give You an Indian Act,Clare Martin, "Dakota Ray Hebert's Comedy Album I'll Give You an Indian Act Is a Hilarious and Much-Needed History Lesson". Paste, November 10, 2022. performed at the Toronto edition of Just for Laughs,Darrell Stranger, "Indigenous comedians set to take Just For Laughs stage in Toronto". APTN News, September 12, 2022. and appeared in an episode of Comedy Night with Rick Mercer.Greg David, "CBC Unveils 2022-23 Programming Slate". TV, eh?, June 1, 2022.
She co-stars in the new 2023 CTV workplace sitcom Shelved.Jesse Whittock, "Lyndie Greenwood, Chris Sandiford, Dakota Ray Hebert And Paul Braunstein Cast As Leads In Anthony Q. Farrell’s CTV Sitcom ‘Shelved’". Deadline Hollywood, June 29, 2022. She is also slated to appear in two Season 3 episodes of Roast Battle Canada, battling Paul Rabliauskas and Alan Shane Lewis.Greg David, "CTV Comedy Channel cranks up the heat this summer with Season 3 of Roast Battle Canada, beginning July 10". TV, eh?, June 27, 2023.
in 2024, she co-starred in the Disney+ original series Echo.
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