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).