Susan Downey Biography

Fast Facts

• Sting and Billy Joel performed at her wedding to Robert Downey Jr․, and she wore a dress by Vera Wang to the ceremony
• Started working at Threshold Entertainment, overseeing the development and production of several movies based on the "Mortal Kombat" video game
• Stated that she decided she wanted to work in the movie industry when she was about 12 years old
• Quote: "I think there's something about running toward what scares you․"
• Before stepping down in 2009, worked as Co-President of Dark Castle Entertainment and Executive Vice President of Productions at Silver Pictures
• Producing such Robert Downey, Jr․, starring projects as "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," "Sherlock Holmes" and "Iron Man 2" as well as forming a production company called Team Downey with him in 2010
• Was the valedictorian at her 1991 graduation from Schaumburg High School in Schaumburg, Ill