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, 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 played the lead female in the first season of the AMC supernatural thriller series, The Terror, in 2018. In this series she portrayed a shaman dubbed "Lady Silence" by the crew of the Franklin expedition.

As part of Nive and the deer children

 * 2012 – Nive Sings!
 * 2015 – Feet First

Movies

 * 2005 – The New World
 * 2019 – Togo

Television

 * 2018 – The Terror as Lady Silence
 * 2021 - The North Water as Anna