
Maya Rudolph is going to be Up All Night, all right! The actress is 
reportedly expecting her fourth child with writer/director Paul Thomas 
Anderson, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actress has informed 
NBC that she is pregnant, sources tell the site. NBC and Rudolph’s rep 
declined to comment.
Rudolph, 40, and her longtime partner Anderson, 42, are already 
parents to Pearl, 7, Lucille, 3, and Jack, 19 months. The news comes 
just after Up All Night’s Christina Applegate exited the series for 
creative reasons.
Since first becoming a mother in October 2005, Rudolph’s focus has 
been on her family. “Before I had children, everything about my life was
 devoted to Saturday Night Live,” she said on NPR’S Fresh Air in April 
2012. “It’s really difficult to be there for anyone else in your life 
when you’re doing the show because of the hours it demands.”
After leaving the NBC sketch comedy series in 2007, things have 
certainly changed for Rudloph (whose notable film credits include 
Bridesmaids, Friends With Kids, Grown Ups, Away We Go and Idiocracy). 
With three young children to raise — and a fourth on the way! — she 
spends her non-working hours tending their needs first.
“I keep hearing about this elusive ‘date night’ where people actually
 have it together enough to go somewhere,” Rudolph joked in a September 
2011 iVillage interview. “I think the last date night we had was eating a
 bowl of cereal at my kitchen table after everybody went to bed. . . I’m
 really envious of those families that really get it together. It seems 
so adult to me like, ‘And then Friday we’ll have date night.’ How do 
they do that?”
Anderson, known for films like Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood and
 The Master, is nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Writers 
Guild of America Awards.