While her name may not be as familiar to many as her husband, Shauna Robertson has had a successful career in the entertainment biz as a film producer. She is best known for her collaborations with Judd Apatow on comedies like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up,” “Superbad,” and “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” to name a few. Per Esquire, Robertson first met Apatow on the set of 2004’s “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” starring Will Ferrell. “Shauna is obsessed with getting every detail correct,” Apatow said of working with the actor (via the Los Angeles Times). “She is the rare woman who always wants to take the joke farther than any man wants to go.” In fact, he said, “All nudity in my films is a result of Shauna pushing me and calling me a wimp.” (Jonah Hill, who worked with Robertson on “Superbad,” also attested to this, describing the producer as “way more perverse than any of us.”)
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Robertson was born and raised in Toronto, Canada; at 16, she dropped out of high school to move to Hollywood to pursue her dreams of becoming a producer. Speaking to the LA Times, Robert said having “hippy” parents — her father worked as a hang gliding instructor, while her mother was a yoga teacher — prepared her for the job. “It’s good early training to have an incredibly irresponsible family. It forces a young person to take responsibility, to be organized,” she quipped.
