Biography
Nive Nielsen (born 1979 in Nuuk, Greenland) is a Greenlandic singer, songwriter and an actress. An Inuk from Nuuk, she plays with her band The Deer Children (a band of mostly Belgian musicians), often using a little red guitar-ukulele, which kickstarted her music career. The first concert she played was for Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. Nielsen appeared as an Inuk woman in the movie 'The New World', starring Colin Farrell (2005). She also played the lead female in the first season of the AMC supernatural thriller series, 'The Terror' (2018). In this series she portrayed a shaman dubbed Lady Silence by the crew of the Franklin expedition.
As a singer-songwriter Nielsen and The Deer Children released two albums: Nive Sings! (2012) and Feet First (2015).
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