Shauna Robertson
Shauna Robertson (born December 18, 1975) is a Canadian film producer. From 1999 to 2008, she worked frequently with Judd Apatow, and produced a number of films for Apatow Productions, including "" (2004), "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" (2005), "Knocked Up", "Superbad" (both 2007), "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Pineapple Express" (both 2008). Early life. Robertson was raised in Markham, Ontario and moved to Los Angeles as a teenager. 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. Career. In Los Angeles, she became an assistant to Mike Binder, who she had met at Camp Tamakwa in Algonquin Provincial Park, memorialized in his 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. 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. After six years of dating, Robertson became engaged to American actor Edward Norton in 2011, and they married in 2012. They have one son, Atlas, born in March 2013.