Nicolas Winding Refn
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Winding Refn at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
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29 September 1970 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, producer |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Spouse(s) | Liv Corfixen |
| Children | 2 |
Nicolas Winding Refn (Danish: [neɡ̊olas ʋend̥eŋ ˈʁɛfn]; born 29 September 1970) is a Danish film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for directing the crime dramas Bleeder (1999) and the Pusher films (1996-2005), the fictionalised biographical film Bronson (2008), the dramatic adventure film Valhalla Rising (2009), the neo-noir crime film Drive (2011), the thriller Only God Forgives (2013), and the psychological horror film The Neon Demon (2016). In 2008, Refn co-founded the Copenhagen-based production company Space Rocket Nation.
Nicolas Winding Refn was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and raised partly in New York, United States. His parents are Danish film director and editor Anders Refn and cinematographer Vibeke Winding. His half-brother is Danish singer Kasper Winding.
Refn has cited viewing The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) as inspiration for his filmmaking career:
I grew up in a cinema family. My parents were brought up on the French New Wave. That was God to them, but to me it was the antichrist, and how better to rebel against your parents than by watching something your mother is going to hate, which were American horror movies. When I saw Texas Chain Saw Massacre, I realized: I don't want to be a director, I don't want to be a writer, I don't want to be a producer, I don't want to be a photographer, I don't want to be an editor, I don't want to be a sound man. I want to be all of them at once. And that film proved that you can do it because that movie is not a normal movie.
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