---
name: "Nive Nielsen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nive-nielsen"
roles: []
born: "1 January 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T18:23:14.694400+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Nive Nielsen

Actor. Born 1 January 1979 in Nuuk, Greenland.

## Details

- **Born:** 1 January 1979, Nuuk, Greenland
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nive_Nielsen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19508994, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2156044/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2001539

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*The Terror*](https://film.one/tv/the-terror.md) (82)

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## Biography

Nive Nielsen is a Greenlandic actress and singer-songwriter. An Inuk from Nuuk, she is known for her acting roles as an Inuit woman in *The New World* (2005), Lady Silence / Silna in the series *The Terror* (2018), Atiqtalik in *Togo* (2019), Anna in *The North Water* (2021), and Uki in *Washington Black* (2025).

As a musician she fronts the band Nive and the Deer Children, with whom she has released albums including *Nive Sings!* (2012) and *Feet First* (2015). She began her music career after receiving a small guitar-ukulele and gave her first concert for Margrethe II of Denmark.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Terror* (2018), Fi1m 82, as Lady Silence / Silna — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-terror.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Washington Black* (2025), series, as Uki, uki
- *The North Water* (2021), series, as Anna
- *Togo* (2019), as Atiqtalik
- *The Terror* (2018), series, as Lady Silence / Silna — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-terror.md)
- *The New World* (2005), as Inuit Woman

## Gallery

- ![Nive Nielsen](https://film.one/media/person/920953/gallery-5a30330d2d56.jpg) Nive Nielsen — Schorle, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Nive_Nielsen_Rudolstadt_03.jpg/1280px-Nive_Nielsen_Rudolstadt_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nive & The Deer Children at Rudolstadt-Festival 2016.](https://film.one/media/person/920953/gallery-2f6f3068a4d2.jpg) Nive & The Deer Children at Rudolstadt-Festival 2016. — Schorle, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Nive_%26_The_Deer_Children_Rudolstadt_01.jpg/1280px-Nive_%26_The_Deer_Children_Rudolstadt_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nive & The Deer Children at Rudolstadt-Festival 2016.](https://film.one/media/person/920953/gallery-487ed56071c0.jpg) Nive & The Deer Children at Rudolstadt-Festival 2016. — Schorle, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Nive_%26_The_Deer_Children_Rudolstadt_02.jpg/1280px-Nive_%26_The_Deer_Children_Rudolstadt_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nive & The Deer Children at Rudolstadt-Festival 2016.](https://film.one/media/person/920953/gallery-7226c81365a1.jpg) Nive & The Deer Children at Rudolstadt-Festival 2016. — Schorle, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Nive_%26_The_Deer_Children_Rudolstadt_03.jpg/1280px-Nive_%26_The_Deer_Children_Rudolstadt_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nive & The Deer Children at Rudolstadt-Festival 2016.](https://film.one/media/person/920953/gallery-3cd2a46111d6.jpg) Nive & The Deer Children at Rudolstadt-Festival 2016. — Schorle, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Nive_%26_The_Deer_Children_Rudolstadt_04.jpg/1280px-Nive_%26_The_Deer_Children_Rudolstadt_04.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nive & The Deer Children at Rudolstadt-Festival 2016.](https://film.one/media/person/920953/gallery-f744c107adc9.jpg) Nive & The Deer Children at Rudolstadt-Festival 2016. — Schorle, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Nive_%26_The_Deer_Children_Rudolstadt_05.jpg/1280px-Nive_%26_The_Deer_Children_Rudolstadt_05.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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