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.
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Discography
Albums
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
2005 – The New World
2019 – Togo
Television
2018 – The Terror as Lady Silence
2021 – The North Water as Anna
2025 – Washington Black as Uki
