Catherine Winder Biography

Fast Facts

• Attended Western University, where she got her first taste of production work at a local cable company
• Started out as a production manager on "Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers" and "Adventures of the Gummi Bears" in 1989
• Was teaching English in Japan when she decided to apply for a production job at Japanese studio that had been purchased by Walt Disney Animation
• Became the president of Rainmaker Entertainment Inc․ in 2009 and remained with the company until 2012
• Best known as a production manager and executive producer who has worked on "Darkwing Duck," "TaleSpin," and "Star Wars: The Clone Wars․"
• Wrote the textbook "Producing Animation" with Zahra Dowlatabadi in 2011
• Produced both the animated series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" and the 2008 feature film by the same name