Life and work
Nicolas Winding Refn is a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer. Born: 29 September 1970. Citizenship recorded in the biographical source: Kingdom of Denmark.
Director · 1970–
Nicolas Winding Refn
Nicolas Winding Refn is a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer. Born on 29 September 1970, this profile follows Nicolas Winding Refn through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Drive (2011). The location trail reaches Sixth Street Viaduct — original bridge site, MacArthur Park and The MacArthur · Park Plaza. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
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Drive · Sixth Street Viaduct — original bridge site
Nicolas Winding Refn is credited as director on Drive. The work’s existing location story leads to Sixth Street Viaduct — original bridge site. The original Sixth Street bridge featured in the film. It was demolished in 2016; the crossing you can visit today is a replacement, not the structure seen on screen.
Drive — credits ↗︎Sixth Street Viaduct ↗︎Drive · The MacArthur · Park Plaza ↗︎
THE PLACES BEHIND THE STORY
A life on the map.
Explore 3 connections. Each connection links to its evidence; outlined circles mark approximate areas, not exact buildings or camera positions.
Sixth Street Viaduct — original bridge site ↗︎
Historic filming location · river crossing
The original Sixth Street bridge featured in the film. It was demolished in 2016; the crossing you can visit today is a replacement, not the structure seen on screen.
Sixth Street Viaduct ↗︎Drive · The MacArthur · Park Plaza ↗︎
6th Street over the Los Angeles River
Open street map ↗︎MacArthur Park ↗︎
Filming location · the meeting by the lake
Standard meets his creditors beside the lake. The park gives the conversation an open setting, with little sense of privacy despite the space around it.
2230 W 6th Street
Open street map ↗︎The MacArthur · Park Plaza ↗︎
Filming location · apartment interiors
The Park Plaza, now known as the MacArthur, supplied rooms and corridors for the apartment building. Its exterior is a location photograph, not the film’s complete apartment frontage.
Park Plaza Hotel (Los Angeles) ↗︎Drive · The MacArthur · Park Plaza ↗︎
607 S Park View Street
Open street map ↗︎IN THE STORY1970-09-29
Born 29 September 1970
Explore a shared connection.
WORKS
Culture, connected.
Follow the work through its real places.
Drive ↗︎
Nicolas Winding Refn
KEEP EXPLORING
Cities and Worlds.
Los Angeles ↗︎
Follow a scene into the hills. A song onto the Strip. A story all the way to the ocean.
Drive ↗︎
A lake, a hotel and a river crossing reveal the distance between the Driver’s stillness and the city moving around him.
PEOPLE IN THE STORY
Creative connections.
Follow collaborators through their work and the real places tied to it.
Bryan Cranston ↗︎
Bryan Cranston is an American actor. Born on 7 March 1956, this profile follows Bryan Cranston through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Drive (2011), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) and The Studio (2025). The location trail reaches Sixth Street Viaduct — original bridge site, MacArthur Park and The MacArthur · Park Plaza. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Carey Mulligan ↗︎
Carey Mulligan is a British actress. Born on 28 May 1985, this profile follows Carey Mulligan through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Drive (2011). The location trail reaches Sixth Street Viaduct — original bridge site, MacArthur Park and The MacArthur · Park Plaza. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Oscar Isaac ↗︎
Oscar Isaac is a Guatemalan-American actor. Born on 9 March 1979, this profile follows Oscar Isaac through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Drive (2011). The location trail reaches Sixth Street Viaduct — original bridge site, MacArthur Park and The MacArthur · Park Plaza. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Christina Hendricks ↗︎
Christina Hendricks is a British-American actress. Born on 3 May 1975, this profile follows Christina Hendricks through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Mad Men (2007) and Drive (2011). The location trail reaches The Biltmore Los Angeles, Musso & Frank Grill and Los Angeles Theatre. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Marc Platt ↗︎
Marc Platt is an American film, television and theatre producer. Born on 14 April 1957, this profile follows Marc Platt through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Legally Blonde (2001), Drive (2011), Bridge of Spies (2015) and La La Land (2016). The location trail reaches University of Southern California, California Institute of Technology and Sixth Street Viaduct — original bridge site, with existing stories in Berlin. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Cliff Martinez ↗︎
Cliff Martinez is an American musician and composer, composer, drummer. Born on 5 February 1954, this profile follows Cliff Martinez through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Drive (2011) and The Lincoln Lawyer (2011). The location trail reaches Sixth Street Viaduct — original bridge site, MacArthur Park and The MacArthur · Park Plaza. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.