Steven Soderbergh
- Born: 14 Jan, 1963
There are those who credit Steven Soderbergh with creating the late 20th-century boom in independent filmmaking. Certainly there had been other directors working outside the studio system for many, many years, but after his small art-house film "sex, lies and videotape" won the 1989 Palme d'Or at Cannes, a flood of other indie moviemakers followed in his wake. (The role played by the Sundance Film Festival also cannot be overlooked.) Still, as the new millennium dawned, it was perhaps ironic that this stalwart non-Hollywood director had crossed over and become the darling of the mainstream and a prime contender for Oscar glory.
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father Peter Soderbergh: dean of the College of Education at Louisiana State University; divorced from Soderbergh's mother c. 1979; died on February 17, 1998 at age 69
- mother : divorced from Soderbergh's father c. 1979
- daughter Sarah Soderbergh: born in February 1990; mother, Betsy Brantley
- wife Betsy Brantley: met while he was doing preliminary casting for "The Last Ship"; has acted in such films as "Another Country" (1984), "The Princess Bride" (1987) and "Havana" (1990); sister of journalist-screenwriter Duncan Brantley; divorced
- Laura Bickford: dated; no longer together; produced "Traffic" (2000); was Soderbergh's date to the 2001 Academy Awards
- Jules Asner: dating as of summer 2001
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