Darla K. Anderson

Biography:  Darla K. Anderson is a film producer for Pixar. The 2008 Guinness Book of World Records lists Anderson as having the highest average movie gross for a producer: $221 million per movie. 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. 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. Her most recent job was the producer of the 2010 film Toy Story 3, which was released on June 18, 2010, in Disney Digital 3D and IMAX 3D. Anderson was born and raised in Glendale, California. She studied environmental design at San Diego State University. Before coming to Pixar, she worked as an executive producer at Angel Studios.