Nicolas Winding Refn
Directing
- Born
- September 29, 1970 (age 56) · Copenhagen, Denmark
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).
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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.
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Known for
Behind the camera23
- 2026Her Private Hell Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story
- 2025Big Trouble on Billycock Hill Executive Producer
- 2024Beauty Is Not a Sin Director, Writer
- 2023Circus Maximus Director
- 2022Touch of Crude Director, Writer
- 2019Rematch Director
- 2016The Neon Demon Screenplay, Director, Producer, Story
- 2014Dying of the Light Executive Producer
- 2013Only God Forgives Director, Writer
- 2012