Bio

"Paul W.S. Anderson." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2013. <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027271/>.

   
Paul W.S. Anderson was born on March 4, 1965 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in Northern England.   He attended Warwick University where he graduated with honors and an MBA in film. Anderson began working on feature films in the early 90s, penning and directing the film Shopping followed by his American debut, Mortal Kombat (1995) a year later. Anderson returned to the video game film genre and directed Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil(2002), followed by Alien Vs. Predator (2004).  In 2009, Anderson married Jovovich, his fiancee; of six years, with whom he has a daughter. Tired of having to explain the raining frogs in the movie Magnolia (1999), he added the initials W.S. to his name to avoid confusion with indie filmmaker Paul Anderson. Paul is now fielding questions about what it's like to work with Bill Murray because of the similarity of his name to author Wes Anderson.