Nive Nielsen

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.

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
Website	niveandthedeerchildren.com

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]