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 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 2021 – The North Water as Anna 2025 – Washington Black as Uki