Darla K. Anderson

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Darla K. Anderson
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Anderson in October 2010 attending 18th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival Chairman's Reception at the home of Stuart Suna in East Hampton, New York
Born
Darla Kay Anderson

(1968-10-22) October 22, 1968 (age 55)
Glendale, California, U.S.
OccupationFilm producer
Employers
Spouses
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Awards Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
Coco (2017)

Darla Kay Anderson (born October 22, 1968) is an American film producer who formerly worked at Pixar Animation Studios. [2] She sits on the national board of directors for the Producers Guild of America. [3]

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Life and career

She produced the 2010 film Toy Story 3 , [4] [5] which was nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Picture and which won the 2011 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Previously, Anderson won a Golden Satellite Award for A Bug's Life , a BAFTA award for A Bug's Life and Monsters, Inc. and a Producer's Guild Award for Cars . [6]

The 2008 Guinness Book of World Records lists Anderson as having the highest average movie gross for a producer: $221 million per movie, [2] and in 2011 the Wall Street Journal listed a combined gross for the four movies she's produced of over $2 billion. [7]

Anderson was born and raised in Glendale, California. She studied environmental design at San Diego State University. Before coming to Pixar in 1993, [8] she worked as an executive producer at Angel Studios. [6] [9] The character Darla in Finding Nemo was created by the director and screenwriter Andrew Stanton to get back at her for playing practical jokes on him. [6] [9]

On March 8, 2018, it was announced that Anderson left Pixar to pursue other opportunities. [10] In January 2019, it was reported that Anderson had signed a multi-year development deal with Netflix, in which she will develop and produce new animated and live-action projects. [11]

Personal life

Anderson is married to Kori Rae, also a Pixar producer, who produced Monsters University . They live together in Noe Valley, San Francisco. [1]

They met in 1991 when Anderson, a San Francisco newcomer, joined a softball team that Rae managed. Anderson and Rae started dating in 2001, during the last year of Monsters, Inc. Since then, they have decided not to work together on the same films. They first married on Presidents' Day 2004 while San Francisco was issuing same-sex marriage licenses, but those licenses were voided by the state Supreme Court. [12]

They married again in 2008, after that court declared same-sex marriage legal but before Proposition 8 took effect. [1] [13]

Anderson's nephew, Jack Taylor, scored an NCAA record 138 points playing college basketball. She helped him pay to attend basketball camps at upper-tier colleges while he was growing up. [14]

Filmography

YearTitleRole
1995 Toy Story Digital Angel
1997 Geri's Game Special Thanks
1998 It's Tough to Be a Bug Executive Producer
A Bug's Life Producer [15] [16]
2001 Monsters, Inc.
2002 Mike's New Car Special Thanks
2003 Exploring the Reef
2006 Cars Producer [15]
Mater and the Ghostlight Executive Producer
2007 Ratatouille Pixar Productions
2008 Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales Special Thanks
2009 Up
2010 Toy Story 3 Producer
2011 Toy Story Toons: Hawaiian Vacation Special Thanks
Cars 2
2012 Brave
2013 Monsters University
2015 Sanjay's Super Team
The Good Dinosaur
2016 Finding Dory
2017 Cars 3
Coco Producer [17] [18]
2018 Incredibles 2 Special Thanks

See also

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