Martha Mills Noxon was born on August 25,1964 and is an American television and film writer, director, and producer.
47 Facts About Marti Noxon
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Marti Noxon is best known for her work as a screenwriter and executive producer on the supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Marti Noxon was executive producer, writer, and creator of the Bravo comedy-drama series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce and the Lifetime drama series UnREAL, and an executive producer of the CBS medical drama series Code Black.
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Marti Noxon wrote the science fiction action film I Am Number Four, the horror thriller film Fright Night, and the biographical drama film The Glass Castle.
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Marti Noxon wrote and directed the drama film To the Bone.
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Marti Noxon created the AMC dark comedy series Dietland and the HBO limited series Sharp Objects, both of which premiered in 2018.
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Marti Noxon was born in Los Angeles, California, to National Geographic documentary filmmaker father, Nicolas Marti Noxon, and Mary Straley.
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Marti Noxon has said that she grew up in nearby Santa Monica, and that her mother was gay.
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Marti Noxon has a brother, Christopher Noxon, who is a writer and is married to TV writer Jenji Kohan.
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Marti Noxon said that she had always been told that writing was her strength, and eventually that was what she focused on.
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Marti Noxon met producer Rick Rosenthal while working as a waitress and eventually became his assistant.
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Marti Noxon said that Hall was a strong mentor in what is an informal mentorship that writers sometimes find.
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Marti Noxon had written a senior thesis project that was required for her major in college, then forgot about it for four years.
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Marti Noxon reconnected with the material and showed it to a producer and they tried to get it made.
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Marti Noxon said that for her it was about voice, not concept.
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Marti Noxon was skeptical as she wasn't wowed by the concept, and knew the original film hadn't done well.
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In 1997, Marti Noxon joined the writing staff of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for its second season.
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Marti Noxon described her experience on Buffy as charmed, as The WB Network allowed the show creators to work with little interference.
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In 1998, beginning with its third season, Marti Noxon became a co-producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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In 1999, upon the beginning of Buffy spin-off Angel, Marti Noxon was promoted by series creator Joss Whedon to supervising producer for its fourth season, which gave her increasing charge of producing Buffy.
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Marti Noxon co-produced the show over its fifth season with fellow executive co-producer David Fury, as well as direct two episodes.
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Marti Noxon was executive producer of Buffy between 2001 and 2003, for its sixth and seventh seasons.
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In 2004, Marti Noxon wrote and produced a pilot entitled Still Life for Fox about a family recovering from the death of their son, a police officer.
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In January 2005, Marti Noxon co-created the supernatural drama Point Pleasant with John McLaughlin.
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Marti Noxon said she wasn't connecting with the material and the vision of the writer's room.
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In September 2006, Marti Noxon joined the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy for its third season, as consulting producer.
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In February 2007, Marti Noxon co-wrote the third-season Grey's Anatomy episode "Some Kind of Miracle" with series creator Shonda Rhimes.
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In late 2007, Marti Noxon served as head writer during the first season of Private Practice.
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In 2008, Marti Noxon worked as a consulting producer on the AMC drama series Mad Men.
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Marti Noxon said that working with Matthew Weiner was a dream, that it took her writing to a whole different level, and that with feedback from Weiner, was able to break herself of some habits that became ingrained after working on different shows for a while, like focusing on the theme of the show, etc.
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In 2008, Marti Noxon co-wrote a second-season episode of the AMC drama series Mad Men, "The Inheritance", for which she was nominated for a 2009 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.
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Marti Noxon won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series at the February 2010 ceremony for her work on the third season of Mad Men.
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In 2011, Marti Noxon joined the writing team of FOX's Glee for its third season, she did not return for its fourth season.
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Marti Noxon is one of the executive producers of the CBS medical drama series Code Black which premiered in the fall of 2015.
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Marti Noxon wrote the screenplay of the 2011 remake of Fright Night, directed by Craig Gillespie.
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Marti Noxon wrote and directed the 2017 film To the Bone.
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Marti Noxon met her now ex-husband Jeff Bynum while they were both working on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Marti Noxon said that her show, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, is not about her divorce, but is about divorce.
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Marti Noxon joined the Buffy writing staff in the second season as a story editor and wrote several episodes in her first season.
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Marti Noxon was promoted to co-producer in season three, supervising producer in season four, co-executive producer in season five, and finally to executive producer in season six and became the showrunner.
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Marti Noxon served as consulting producer for the first three seasons of Angel, doing several uncredited rewrites.
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Marti Noxon served as executive producer and showrunner on the series.
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Marti Noxon served as an executive producer for the first two seasons of Private Practice.
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Marti Noxon served as consulting producer and writer for the third season.
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Marti Noxon is serving as show-runner, executive producer, writer, and is directing some episodes.
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Marti Noxon is the creator, executive producer, and writer for the HBO 8-part miniseries Sharp Objects, adapted from Gillian Flynn's novel of the same name.
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The project was initially planned as a feature film, but Marti Noxon convinced the network that the story would work better as a limited series.