Dakota Ray Hebert

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.

  1. ^ a b c Bryan Eneas, "Comedy the vehicle for sensitive racial topics in new Saskatoon play". CBC News Saskatoon, March 4, 2019.
  2. ^ Vincent Schilling, "American Indian Film Festival: 126 films, 30 nominees, 6 winners". Indian Country Today, November 7, 2021.
  3. ^ Victoria Ahearn, "Run Woman Run crosses finish line with three awards at VIWFF". Playback, March 14, 2022.
  4. ^ Christine Hinzmann, "Family matters; Theatre North West presents Dreary and Izzy". Prince George Citizen, January 22, 2016.
  5. ^ Cam Fuller, "Salt Baby; A question of identity". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, May 12, 2016.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Darrell Stranger, "Indigenous comedians set to take Just For Laughs stage in Toronto". APTN News, September 12, 2022.
  9. ^ Greg David, "CBC Unveils 2022-23 Programming Slate". TV, eh?, June 1, 2022.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.