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.
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