Nive Nielsen

Nive Nielsen
Nielsen at Rudolstadt-Festival in 2016
Background information
Born	Nuuk, Greenland
Genres	Folk, indie
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter, actress
Instrument	Guitar
Years active	2002–present

Nive Nielsen is a Greenlandic singer-songwriter and an actress. An Inuk from Nuuk, Greenland, as a singer-songwriter she plays with her band The Deer Children, ^{[1] [2]} often using a little red guitar-ukulele, which kickstarted her music career. The first concert she played was for Margrethe II of Denmark.

She appeared as an Inuk woman in The New World , starring Colin Farrell, in 2005. She also starred in the first season of the AMC supernatural thriller series, The Terror , in 2018. In this series she portrayed an angakkuq (shaman) named Silna, dubbed "Lady Silence" by the crew of Franklin's lost expedition.

Discography

Albums

As part of Nive and the Deer Children

• 2012 – Nive Sings!
• 2015 – Feet First

Filmography

Movies

• 2005 – The New World
• 2019 – Togo

Television

• 2018 – The Terror as Lady Silence ^[3]
• 2021 - The North Water as Anna ^[4]

References

1. "Nive Nielsen & The Deer Children: Feet First". gaffa.dk. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
2. "Review: Nive Nielsen and the Deer Children – Feet First". Musikexpress (in German). Retrieved 8 May 2017.
3. "Grønlandsk sanger-skuespiller får stor rolle i Ridley Scotts nye serie over for britiske stornavne" (in Danish). Retrieved 21 September 2017.
4. "Colin Farrell and Jack O'Connell Anchor 'The North Water,' a Gripping Story of Villainy at Sea: TV Review" . Retrieved 5 August 2021.

External links

• Nive Nielsen at IMDb