Dakota Ray Hebert is a Dene comedian, actress and writer from Canada. 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 and Best Performance at the 2022 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival.
Originally from Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Hebert first became known as a stage actress, including in productions of Tara Beagan's Dreary and Izzy, Falen Johnson's Salt Baby and Ellie Moon's This Was the World. In 2019, she both wrote and starred in the play Native Studies 101 for the Gordon Tootoosis Nikaniwin Theatre in Saskatoon.
In 2022 she released her debut comedy album I'll Give You an Indian Act, performed at the Toronto edition of Just for Laughs, and appeared in an episode of Comedy Night with Rick Mercer.
She co-stars in the new 2023 CTV workplace sitcom Shelved. She is also slated to appear in two Season 3 episodes of Roast Battle Canada, battling Paul Rabliauskas and Alan Shane Lewis.
in 2024, she co-starred in the Disney+ original series Echo.
References
- ^ Bryan Eneas, "Comedy the vehicle for sensitive racial topics in new Saskatoon play". CBC News Saskatoon, March 4, 2019.
- Vincent Schilling, "American Indian Film Festival: 126 films, 30 nominees, 6 winners". Indian Country Today, November 7, 2021.
- Victoria Ahearn, "Run Woman Run crosses finish line with three awards at VIWFF". Playback, March 14, 2022.
- Christine Hinzmann, "Family matters; Theatre North West presents Dreary and Izzy". Prince George Citizen, January 22, 2016.
- Cam Fuller, "Salt Baby; A question of identity". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, May 12, 2016.
- 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.
- 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.
- Darrell Stranger, "Indigenous comedians set to take Just For Laughs stage in Toronto". APTN News, September 12, 2022.
- Greg David, "CBC Unveils 2022-23 Programming Slate". TV, eh?, June 1, 2022.
- 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.
- 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.
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- Dene people
- First Nations actresses
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