Personal Life
Susan Levin's first full-credit producer job was for the 2003 thriller Gothika, starring Halle Berry and Levin's future husband, actor Robert Downey, Jr. Downey — who was in the process of divorcing his first wife Deborah Falconer — has said that his most memorable recollection about shooting Gothika was "romancing the producer"; Levin admitted to James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio that while she thought Downey was "an amazing actor that we were lucky to have in our movie", her first impression of him was that he was "weird". The two quietly struck up a romance — though she turned down his romantic advances twice for fear that their relationship would not last through the completion of shooting because "he's an actor; I have a real job" — and Downey proposed to Levin the night before her thirtieth birthday. The couple went public with their relationship in 2003, and were married on August 27, 2005 in a Jewish ceremony at Amagansett, New York.
Downey credits his wife with helping him kick his drug and alcohol habits. "The old saying is true — behind every good man there's an incredible woman. I owe a huge amount — if not all — of my success to Susan. We make a great team, and all that luck I spoke about, that's Susan." Sherlock Holmes director Guy Ritchie describes the couple as "the greatest illustration of a symbiotic marriage that I've ever seen. It's a real yin and yang, and it's made him a joy to work with. Robert would be a pain in the ass if he didn't have Susan to police him." One of his biceps bears a tattoo which reads, "Suzie Q" as a tribute to her.
Susan gave birth to their first child, a baby boy, on February 7, 2012. Exton Elias Downey was born at 7:24 a.m. in Los Angeles and weighed in at 7 lbs., 5oz. A friend of the couple told People.com that “everyone is healthy and they couldn’t be happier.”
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