Nive Nielsen
Nive Nielsen | |
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 Nielsen at Rudolstadt-Festival in 2016 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 1979 (age 44–45) Nuuk, Greenland |
| Genres | Folk, indie |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, actress |
| Instrument | Guitar |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Website | niveandthedeerchildren |
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,[1][2] 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.
Discography
[edit]Albums
[edit]As part of Nive and the Deer Children
[edit]- 2012 – Nive Sings!
- 2015 – Feet First
Filmography
[edit]Movies
[edit]- 2005 – The New World
- 2019 – Togo
Television
[edit]- 2018 – The Terror as Lady Silence[3]
- 2021 - The North Water as Anna[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Nive Nielsen & The Deer Children: Feet First". gaffa.dk. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
- ^ "Review: Nive Nielsen and the Deer Children – Feet First". Musikexpress (in German). Retrieved 8 May 2017.
- ^ "Grønlandsk sanger-skuespiller får stor rolle i Ridley Scotts nye serie over for britiske stornavne" (in Danish). Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ "Colin Farrell and Jack O'Connell Anchor 'The North Water,' a Gripping Story of Villainy at Sea: TV Review". Retrieved 5 August 2021.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nive Nielsen.
- http://niveandthedeerchildren.com/
- https://www.discogs.com/artist/4138507-Nive-Nielsen-The-Deer-Children
- Nive Nielsen at IMDb
- http://finespind.dk/index.php/artikler-og-billedserier/788-portraet-af-den-fremadstormende-gronlandske-musiker-og-skuespiller-nive-nielsen-interview
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- 21st-century indigenous women of the Americas
- 21st-century indigenous writers of the Americas
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- Greenlandic actresses
- Greenlandic Inuit women
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- Inuit actresses
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- Living people
- People from Nuuk
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