Jean-Luc Kanapé is an Innu activist and Canadian actor, most prominent as a caribou conservationist.^[1] A researcher for the Pessamit Innu Band council, he is involved in efforts to track and monitor the population of caribou in the Pipmuacan region near Pessamit and Baie-Comeau.^[2]

In 2021, he received an emerging leadership award from the First Nations Guardians Gathering, an organization of indigenous environmentalists and conservationists.^[3]

He had his first acting role in the 2021 film Nouveau Québec,^[4] for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.^[5]

In 2024, he appeared in François Péloquin's film The Thawing of Ice (La fonte des glaces).^[6]

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