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.

Filmography

• 2026Her Private Hell — Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story
• 2026Satellites II — Writer, Director
• 2025Big Trouble on Billycock Hill — Executive Producer
• 2024Beauty Is Not a Sin — Director, Writer
• 2023Circus Maximus — Director
• Copenhagen Cowboy — Jørgen, Director, Creator
• The Famous Five — Executive Producer, Creator
• 2022Touch of Crude — Director, Writer
• 2021Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess — Presenter
• 2019Rematch — Director
• Too Old to Die Young — Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator
• 2016The Neon Demon — Screenplay, Director, Producer, Story
• 2015Sorcerers: A Conversation with William Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn
• 2014Dying of the Light — Executive Producer
• 2013Only God Forgives — Director, Writer
• 2012Black's Game — Executive Producer
• 2012Pusher — Dutch Bob, Executive Producer
• 2011Drive — Director
• 2010Pusher — Original Film Writer
• 2010Valhalla Rising — Writer, Director
• 2009Bronson — Director, Screenplay
• 2005Chinaman — The Doctor
• 2005Pusher 3 — Director, Writer
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Director
• 2004Pusher II — Producer, Screenplay, Director
• 2003Fear X — Director, Writer
• 1999Bleeder — Screenplay, Director, Producer
• 1996Pusher — Brian, Screenplay, Director, Producer
• 1990Glubsk, Sultens Gud
• Maniac Cop — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• What Have You Done to Solange? — Producer
• Witchfinder — Producer

Appearances as themselves (10)

• 2026THE ORIGIN OF ULTRAMAN — Self
• 2024Dario Argento: Panico — Self
• 2023Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightcall with Nicolas Winding Refn — Self
• 2023Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds — Self
• 2015Metal Gear Solid: Legacy — Self
• 2015My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn — Self
• 2013Jodorowsky's Dune — Self - Filmmaker
• 2012Drive Without a Driver — Self
• 2012NWR — Self
• 2006Gambler — Himself (Jang)