Biography

Dawn Lura is a Native American (Diné) SAG/AFTRA actress and was born on the Navajo Reservation and resides in New Mexico. She is known for CW's Roswell, New Mexico (2020) and Netflix's End Of The Road (2022). She has performed using three native dialects in film and theatre: Navajo, Apache and Lenape. Her role as Native Woman in Heaven On Earth? (2021) earned her a COLFF Best Actress Award. Dawn's acting career runs the range of television, feature film, new media, commercials, theatre and opera. A hard and focused worker, she has proven her capabilities as a skilled and versatile actress and is always ready for new challenges and opportunities. As a Principal in the Santa Fe Opera's world premier production of Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun (2019), she earned her AGMA (American Guild of Musical Artists) eligibility. She has performed speaking Lenape in the play, Manahatta, alongside Lily Gladstone, Carla-Rae and Kholan Studi, directed by Maura Dhu Studi and speaking Navajo with the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program-Young Native Playwrights (via Zoom) and in her latest feature film (in production), she speaks Apache. Dawn attended Santa Catalina School for Girls in Monterey, California and Stanford University. She has lived in Puerto Rico, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City and on the Navajo Reservation.
- IMDb mini biography by: Dawn Lura