Shauna Robertson

Infobox actor


imagesize = 150px
name = Shauna Robertson
othername = Shauna Weinberg
birthdate = birth year and age|1975
birthplace = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
yearsactive = 1999–present
occupation = Film producer

Shauna Robertson (born 1975) is a Canadian film producer. She has worked frequently with Judd Apatow, and has produced a number of films for Apatow Productions, including "The 40-Year-Old Virgin", "Knocked Up", "Superbad", "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Pineapple Express".

Biography

Career

After dropping out of high school at age 16, Robertson moved from Toronto, Canada to Los Angeles, California.cite web| url = http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-brief6-2008aug06,0,6223649.story| title = Shauna Robertson is just one of the guys| accessdate = 2008-08-17| date = 2008-08-06| publisher = "Los Angeles Times"| first = Rachel| last = Abramowitz] She became an assistant to Mike Binder, who she had met at Camp Tamakwa, memorialized in his film 1993 film "Indian Summer". She went on to work for Hart Bochner, Jay Roach and Adam McKay. Working with McKay on "Elf", she met Will Ferrell, who brought her to work on the set of "", where she first met director-producer Judd Apatow.cite web| url = http://www.esquire.com/features/best-brightest-2007/robertson1207| title = Shauna Robertson: The Girl in the Boys' Locker Room| accessdate = 2008-08-17| date = 2007-11-20| publisher = "Esquire"| first = Matthew| last = Belloni] With Apatow, she produced 2005's "The 40-Year-Old Virgin", 2007's "Knocked Up" and "Superbad", and 2008's "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Pineapple Express". While Robertson believes that her role as a female producer is to balance out the male humor in films, Apatow has called her "the rare woman who always wants to take the joke farther than any man wants to go. All nudity in my films is a result of Shauna pushing me and calling me a wimp." Actor Jonah Hill has also claimed that Robertson is "way more perverse than any of us", referring to the male writers, directors, producers and actors from Apatow's production company Apatow Productions.

Personal life

Robertson grew up on a farm just outside of Toronto, Canada, where her father taught hang gliding and her mother was a yoga instructor. She says her biggest preparation for becoming a producer was having laid back parents: "It's good early training to have an incredibly irresponsible family. It forces a young person to take responsibility, to be organized. My mother called me the benevolent dictator because I liked things done in an efficient way." She dropped out of high school at the age of 16 to move to Los Angeles, California.

Robertson has been dating actor Edward Norton since fall of 2006. [cite web| url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/magazine/27apatow-t.html| title = Judd Apatow's Family Values| accessdate = 2008-08-17| date = 2007-05-27| publisher = "The New York Times"| first = Stephen| last = Rodrick] [cite web| url = http://eonline.com/gossip/planetgossip/detail/index.jsp?uuid=a1ce3a09-337e-4110-8fce-ce5bab8b0099| title = "Knocked Up" Action: Jack Black Wedding News?| accessdate = 2008-08-17| date = 2007-05-22| publisher = E!| first = Marc| last = Malkin]

Filmography

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