The Most Famous
ACTORS from Greenland
This page contains a list of the greatest Greenlandic Actors. The pantheon dataset contains 13,578 Actors, 1 of which were born in Greenland. This makes Greenland the birth place of the 151st most number of Actors behind Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Belize.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Greenlandic Actors of all time. This list of famous Greenlandic Actors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Nukâka Coster-Waldau (b. 1971)
With an HPI of 44.85, Nukâka Coster-Waldau is the most famous Greenlandic Actor. Her biography has been translated into 14 different languages on wikipedia.
Nukâka Coster-Waldau (née Sascha Nukâka Motzfeldt; born 23 February 1971), better known professionally as Nukâka, is a Greenlandic actress and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Greenland. She is married to Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and has two daughters with him. Coster-Waldau is of Inuit, German and Norwegian descent and was born in Uummannaq, Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark. She is the daughter of Vivi and Josef Motzfeldt, a Greenlandic politician.
2. Nive Nielsen (b. 1979)
With an HPI of 36.56, Nive Nielsen is the 2nd most famous Greenlandic Actor. Her biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
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, 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 starred in the first season of the AMC supernatural thriller series, The Terror, in 2018. In this series she portrayed an angakkuq (shaman) named Silna, dubbed "Lady Silence" by the crew of Franklin's lost expedition.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Greenlandic actors born between 1971 and 1979. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Greenlandic actors include Nukâka Coster-Waldau, and Nive Nielsen. As of April 2024, 1 new Greenlandic actors have been added to Pantheon including Nukâka Coster-Waldau.
