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I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.

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Nicolas Winding Refn
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 29
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
København
Passport
Passports
Heart
Always
Danish
Yorker

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