Nive Nielsen

Nive Nielsen
Nielsen at Rudolstadt-Festival in 2016
Nielsen at Rudolstadt-Festival in 2016
Background information
Born
Nuuk, Greenland
GenresFolk, indie
OccupationsSinger, songwriter, actress
InstrumentGuitar
Years active2002–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, 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

As part of Nive and the Deer Children she has released the following albums:

  • 2012 – Nive Sings!
  • 2015 – Feet First
  • 2026 – My Mother's Name

Filmography

Movies

Television

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. ↑ "Nive and The Deer Children -Nive Sings! and My Mother's Name". Apple Music. Retrieved 16 October 2026.
  4. ↑ "Nive and The Deer Children - Feet First". Apple Music. Retrieved 16 October 2026.
  5. ↑ "Grønlandsk sanger-skuespiller får stor rolle i Ridley Scotts nye serie over for britiske stornavne" (in Danish). Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  6. ↑ "Colin Farrell and Jack O'Connell Anchor 'The North Water,' a Gripping Story of Villainy at Sea: TV Review". Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "Nive Nielsen: Uki". IMDb. Retrieved 23 August 2026.