Brad Anderson
Born: 1964
Where: Madison, Connecticut, USA
The director first tasted success with his romantic comedy Next Stop Wonderland with Hope Davis and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
Subsequent highlights include the sci-fi romance Happy Accidents and the psychological thriller The Machinist.
Anderson made his directorial debut with an episode of the TV series Homicide: Life on the Streets in 1993.
He followed it with the sci-fi yarn Frankenstein's House of Monsters and made his feature debut The Darien Gap in 1996.
The movie led to Variety honoring him as one of the "Ten Leading New Independent Directors To Watch."
After Next Stop Wonderland and Happy Accidents, he made the psychological thriller Session 9 set in a former mental hospital.
In 2004, he made the paranoid thriller The Machinist with Christian Bale, who shed four stones for the role.




























