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name: "Alice Nevalinga"
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updated: "2026-09-17T04:39:35.400818+00:00"
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# Alice Nevalinga

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Also known as:** Nyla
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638725/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10095

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Nanook of the North*](https://film.one/film/nanook-of-the-north.md) (84)

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## Biography

Alice Nevalinga, also credited as Nyla, is an Inuit actor. She appeared as Nanook's Wife - the Smiling One in the 1922 documentary film *Nanook of the North* directed by Robert J. Flaherty.

She is the mother of Quebec Inuit leader and author Taamusi Qumaq (1914–1993).

*Sources: imdb.com, web.archive.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Nanook of the North* (1922), Fi1m 84, as Nanook's Wife - the Smiling One — [page](https://film.one/film/nanook-of-the-north.md)

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