Darla Kay Anderson (born October 22, 1968) is an American film producer who formerly worked at

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. She sits on the national board of directors for the

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Life and career

She produced the 2010 film ''

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'', 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 ''

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'', a BAFTA award for ''A Bug's Life'' and '' Monsters, Inc.'' and a Producer's Guild Award for ''

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''. The 2008 Guinness Book of World Records lists Anderson as having the highest average movie gross for a producer: $221 million per movie, and in 2011 the Wall Street Journal listed a combined gross for the four movies she's produced of over $2 billion. Anderson was born and raised in Glendale, California. She studied environmental design at

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. Before coming to Pixar in 1993, she worked as an executive producer at

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. The character Darla in '' Finding Nemo'' was created by the director and screenwriter

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to get back at her for playing practical jokes on him. On March 8, 2018, it was announced that Anderson left Pixar to pursue other opportunities. In January 2019, it was reported that Anderson had signed a multi-year development deal with

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, in which she will develop and produce new animated and live-action projects.

Personal life

Anderson is married to Kori Rae, also a Pixar producer, who produced '' Monsters University''. They live together in

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. 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

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2004 while San Francisco was issuing same-sex marriage licenses, but those licenses were voided by the

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. They married again in 2008, after that court declared same-sex marriage legal but before

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took effect. Anderson's nephew, Jack Taylor, scored an

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record 138 points playing

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. She helped him pay to attend basketball camps at upper-tier colleges while he was growing up.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Darla K. 1968 births Living people LGBT people from California American animated film producers American women film producers American film producers LGBT film producers Pixar people People from Glendale, California San Diego State University alumni Producers who won the Best Animated Feature Academy Award

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