Dakota Ray Hebert is a Dene comedian, actress and writer from Canada. [1] 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 Festival [2] and Best Performance at the 2022 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. [3]
Originally from Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, [1] Hebert first became known as a stage actress, including in productions of Tara Beagan's Dreary and Izzy, [4] Falen Johnson's Salt Baby [5] and Ellie Moon's This Was the World. [6] In 2019, she both wrote and starred in the play Native Studies 101 for the Gordon Tootoosis Nikaniwin Theatre in Saskatoon. [1]
In 2022 she released her debut comedy album I'll Give You an Indian Act, [7] performed at the Toronto edition of Just for Laughs, [8] and appeared in an episode of Comedy Night with Rick Mercer. [9]
She co-stars in the new 2023 CTV workplace sitcom Shelved. [10] She is also slated to appear in two Season 3 episodes of Roast Battle Canada, battling Paul Rabliauskas and Alan Shane Lewis. [11]
in 2024, she co-starred in the Disney+ original series Echo.
Dakota Ray Hebert is a Dene comedian, actress and writer from Canada. [1] 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 Festival [2] and Best Performance at the 2022 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. [3]
Originally from Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, [1] Hebert first became known as a stage actress, including in productions of Tara Beagan's Dreary and Izzy, [4] Falen Johnson's Salt Baby [5] and Ellie Moon's This Was the World. [6] In 2019, she both wrote and starred in the play Native Studies 101 for the Gordon Tootoosis Nikaniwin Theatre in Saskatoon. [1]
In 2022 she released her debut comedy album I'll Give You an Indian Act, [7] performed at the Toronto edition of Just for Laughs, [8] and appeared in an episode of Comedy Night with Rick Mercer. [9]
She co-stars in the new 2023 CTV workplace sitcom Shelved. [10] She is also slated to appear in two Season 3 episodes of Roast Battle Canada, battling Paul Rabliauskas and Alan Shane Lewis. [11]
in 2024, she co-starred in the Disney+ original series Echo.