Paul Thomas Anderson, Maya Rudolph Private World With 4 Kids

Paul Thomas Anderson‘s movies are all about dysfunctional relationships, egomaniacal artists, fizzling dreams and people caught in predicaments requiring drastic measures to get out of.

So, no wonder home is a respite for the 55-year-old.

The One Battle After Another writer-director, whose film leads all comers with nine nominations heading into the 2026 Golden Globes on Jan. 11, shares four children with longtime partner Maya Rudolph. In case you were wondering why she was his date to the Gotham Awards last month or anything like that.

Because while they’ve collaborated here and there, the Saturday Night Live alum stealing a few scenes in Anderson’s Inherent Vice and Licorice Pizza, they are the opposite of a Hollywood couple.

In fact, hearing they had been dubbed celebrity royalty in 2018 made Anderson, as he told the Los Angeles Times, “quite nervous.” Yet he had a big laugh at a paparazzi photo he was unaware had been taken when they were on their way to a doctor’s appointment, calling it “horrifying…but hilarious.”

“I remember seeing that,” he quipped, “thinking, ‘Wow. There’s no way we could look like that, is there?'”