secular book in Sámi. Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943–2001), musician, poet and artist. Music Adjagas, musical group. The Blacksheeps, punk rock band. Mari Boine (1956–present), musician. Ane Brun, singer and songwriter. Fred Buljo (1988–present), rapper, singer, joik. Member of KEiiNO and Duolva Duottar. Frode Fjellheim, joik musician. Ingor Ánte Áilo Gaup (1960–present), actor, composer, and folk musician. Jonne Järvelä (1974–present), musician and songwriter. Sofia Jannok (1982–present), performer, musician and radio host. Agnete Johnsen (1994–present), singer and songwriter. Inga Juuso (1945–2014), singer and actress. Gustav Kappfjell (1913–1999), Sámi joiker and artist. Also noted for being part of the resistance movement during WW2. Joni Mitchell (1943–present), musician and painter. Mikkâl Morottaja (1984–present), rap musician. Jaco Pastorius (1951–1987), influential American jazz musician, composer and electric bass player. John Persen (1941–2014), composer. Ulla Pirttijärvi (1971–present), joik singer. Roger Pontare (1951–present), musician. Wimme Saari (1959–present), musician. Ánde Somby, Sámi musician and law professor. Lisa Cecilia Thomasson-Bosiö, or Lapp-Lisa (1878–1932), singer. Vajas, musical group. Niko Valkeapää (1968–present), musician and songwriter. Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943–2001), musician, poet and artist. Film and theatre Mikkel Gaup, actor. Nils Gaup (1955–present), film director. Well-known films include Ofelaš (Pathfinder), which was nominated for an Academy Award, and the 2008 film Kautokeino-Opprøret, based on the Kautokeino Rebellion. Jalmari Helander (1976), Finnish screenwriter and film director. Lance Henriksen (1940), actor of Norwegian parentage; his grandmother was Sámi. Anni-Kristiina Juuso (1979–present), actress. Sara Margrethe Oskal (born 1970), actress, film director Lene Cecilia Sparrok (1997), Norwegian actress of Sámi descent. Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Canadian filmmaker, Indigenous rights activist, and actress of Sámi and Blackfoot heritage, on her father's and mother's sides, respectively. Works in multiple genres including experimental, documentary, drama, and action. Onni Tommila (1999), Finnish actor. Tommy Wirkola (1979), Norwegian filmmaker of Finnish Sámi descent. Renée Zellweger (1969), Oscar-winning actress whose Norwegian mother is of partial Sámi descent. Politics and society Lars Levi Laestadius (1800–61), religious reformer, botanist and ethnologist. Ole Henrik Magga (1947–present), politician. The first President of the Norwegian Sámi Parliament (NSR) and first Chairman of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Helga Pedersen (1973–present) politician. The first Sámi member of Government (Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, Norwegian Labour Party). Elsa Laula Renberg (1877–1931), politician and activist. Organized the first international Sámi conference and wrote a rhetorically powerful pamphlet of resistance to colonization. Isak Mikal Saba (1875–1925), politician and writer. Was the first Sámi parliamentarian (Norwegian Labour Party) and wrote the Sámi national anthem.