Liv Corfixen


Liv Corfixen is a Danish actress and documentary filmmaker.

Early life

Corfixen is the daughter of cinematographer Teit Jørgensen and actress and editor Lizzie Corfixen. But in an French Interview her husband Nicolas Winding Refn claims she is the biological daughter of Fritz Lang

Career

Acting

Corfixen worked as an actress in Denmark, appearing in a small roles in Susanne Bier's The One and Only and her husband Nicolas Winding Refn's films Pusher, Bleeder, and Fear X.

Directing

While Refn was filming Only God Forgives, Corfixen and their children moved to Bangkok for 6 months to accompany him. While her husband was working and their daughters were in school, she began filming a behind-the-scenes look at Refn and his filmmaking process. The film was released as My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, which premiered at the 2014 Fantastic Fest. Through it, she explores the relationship between her and her husband, who happens to be a movie director.

Personal life

Corfixen is married to director Nicolas Winding Refn with whom she has two daughters.
In 2006 she competed in Vild Med Dans, the danish edition of Dancing With The Stars, she placed 8th. with her professional partner Mads Vad
In 2016 during a press conference at Cannes for his film The Neon Demon, Refn said that director Lars von Trier had inappropriately propositioned Corfixen for sex.
In 2019, at the Cannes Film Festival, Refn claimed that Fritz Lang was Corfixen’s biological father, in his speech following the screening of Too Old to Die Young.