Soderbergh's lawyer declined to comment on the lawsuit, and his manager didn't immediately return a call. Frances Lawrencina Anderson's paternity suit says the "Traffic" and "Ocean's Eleven" director helped pay medical expenses during Anderson's pregnancy, and a DNA test showed he was the father of the girl she had in August. "(Soderbergh) has acknowledged that he is the father of the child verbally," adds the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in a state court in Manhattan. Anderson's lawyer didn't immediately return a call.

Soderbergh, who won the best directing Oscar in 2000 for «Traffic,» married TV personality and novelist Jules Asner in 2003. Anderson's lawsuit says she and Soderbergh had a relationship at points including December 2009, when his play "Tot Mom" opened in her hometown of Sydney. Soderbergh wrote and directed the play, which reflects on media coverage of the case of slain Florida toddler Caylee Anthony.