Director of Ocean's Eleven Steven Soderbergh admits fathering love child

Film director Steven Soderbergh has agreed he is the father of an Australian baby girl and has consented to paying a "reasonable" amount of child support, it was revealed today.

Frances Anderson, a former film school student, gave birth to Pearl Button Anderson on August 30 last year, after she and Soderbergh, 48, had an affair while he was in Sydney directing the play Tot Mom, from December 2009 to January last year.

The Oscar-winning director of films including Traffic, Erin Brockovich and Ocean's Eleven has been married to TV personality and novelist Jules Asner, 42, since 2003.

Documents lodged in the Manhattan Supreme Court, signed by Soderbergh, stated that he "consents to an order of filiation and the entry of a reasonable order of child support" after a DNA test, the Sydney Daily Telegraph reported.

Soderbergh asked the court to make an order for confidentiality about any financial arrangements.

He said he and Ms Anderson, who lives in Sydney, had "engaged in consensual sexual intimacy and as a result thereof the plaintiff became pregnant". Soderbergh has a daughter, Sarah, from his first marriage.