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Nicolas Winding Refn

Nicolas Winding Refn

Known For Directing
Birthday Sep 29, 1970 (55)
Birthplace Copenhagen, Denmark
Popularity 0.5 (history)
Updated Aug 02, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Biography

Nicolas Winding Refn (Danish: [ˈne̝kolɑs ˈve̝nte̝ŋˈʁæfn̩]; born 29 September 1970) is a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed the Pusher trilogy (1996–2005), the crime drama Bronson (2008), and the adventure film Valhalla Rising (2009). In 2011, he directed the action drama ... film Drive (2011), for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director. He was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction. Refn's subsequent films were the stylistically driven action film Only God Forgives (2013) and the psychological horror film The Neon Demon (2016). In 2019, he directed his first television series, Too Old to Die Young (2019), which premiered on Amazon Prime. After Amazon's Too Old to Die Young, Refn's next project took him to Netflix and saw him returning to his native Copenhagen for the first time since Pusher 3, which was the setting for his magical realism series, Copenhagen Cowboy. In 2008, Refn co-founded the Copenhagen-based production company Space Rocket Nation. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicolas Winding Refn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Filmography

Pusher

Pusher

2012

as Dutch Bob

Touch of Crude

Touch of Crude

2022

Writer

The Neon Demon

The Neon Demon

2016

Story, Screenplay

Only God Forgives

Only God Forgives

2013

Writer

Pusher

Pusher

2010

Writer

Valhalla Rising

Valhalla Rising

2009

Writer

Bronson

Bronson

2009

Screenplay

Fear X

Fear X

2003

Writer

Circus Maximus

Circus Maximus

2023

Director

Touch of Crude

Touch of Crude

2022

Director

The Neon Demon

The Neon Demon

2016

Director

Only God Forgives

Only God Forgives

2013

Director

Drive

Drive

2011

Director

Valhalla Rising

Valhalla Rising

2009

Director

Bronson

Bronson

2009

Director

Fear X

Fear X

2003

Director

The Neon Demon

The Neon Demon

2016

Producer

Dying of the Light

Dying of the Light

2014

Executive Producer

Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

Copenhagen Cowboy

as Jørgen

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 05, 2023

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