Dakota Ray Hebert is a

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comedian, actress and writer from Canada.Bryan Eneas
"Comedy the vehicle for sensitive racial topics in new Saskatoon play"

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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

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Vincent Schilling
"American Indian Film Festival: 126 films, 30 nominees, 6 winners"
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'', November 7, 2021. and Best Performance at the 2022 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. Originally from Meadow Lake,

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, Hebert first became known as a stage actress, including in productions of

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's ''Dreary and Izzy'',

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's ''Salt Baby'' and

Ellie Moon Ellie Moon is a Canadian-British actress, playwright and screenwriter. Moon wrote the screenplay for and starred in the feature film ''Adult Adoption'' (2022). Her plays are published with Talonbooks. Early life Moon grew up in Kingsville, Ont ...

'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

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. 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 ''

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''. She has been announced as part of the cast of the forthcoming

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sitcom ''

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''.Greg David
"New CTV Original Comedy "Shelved" Announces Lyndie Greenwood, Chris Sandiford, Dakota Ray Hebert and Paul Braunstein as Series Leads"
''TV, eh?'', June 29, 2022.

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