Nive Nielsen is a

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ic singer-songwriter and an actress. An

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from

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, 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

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of Denmark. She appeared as an Inuk woman in '' The New World'', starring

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, in 2005. She also starred in the first season of the

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supernatural thriller series, ''

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'', in 2018. In this series she portrayed an ''

angakkuq The Inuit angakkuq (plural: ''angakkuit'', Inuktitut syllabics ᐊᖓᑦᑯᖅ or ᐊᖓᒃᑯᖅ; Inuvialuktun: '; , pl. ''angakkut''; Iñupiaq: ''aŋatkuq'') is an intellectual and spiritual figure in Inuit culture who corresponds to a med ...

'' (

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) named Silna, dubbed "Lady Silence" by the crew of

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Discography

Albums

As part of Nive and the Deer Children

*2012 – ''Nive Sings!'' *2015 – ''Feet First''

Filmography

Movies

*2005 – '' The New World'' *2019 – ''

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Television

*2018 – ''

'' as Lady Silence *2021 - '' The North Water'' as Anna

References

External links

* * 1979 births 21st-century Danish women singers 21st-century Greenlandic people 21st-century Inuit people 21st-century Inuit women 21st-century indigenous writers of the Americas Carleton University alumni Danish women singer-songwriters Greenlandic actresses Greenlandic Inuit women Greenlandic women singers Inuit actresses Inuit musicians Living people People from Nuuk {{Greenland-bio-stub