Marti Noxon

Martha Mills "Marti" Noxon (born August 25, 1964) is an American television and film writer who was a writer and executive producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She is currently executive producing and writing the Bravo comedy-drama series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce and the Lifetime comedy-drama series UnREAL. She is also an executive producer of the CBS medical drama series Code Black. 2Early life Noxon was born in Los Angeles, California, to National Geographic documentary filmmaker father, Nicolas Noxon, and Mary Straley. Noxon said that she grew up in Santa Monica, California, and that her mother was gay. She has a brother, Christopher Noxon, who is a writer and is married to TV writer Jenji Kohan. Her grandmother was painter Betty Lane. Noxon would often accompany her father when he traveled to shoot documentary films and was already in love with the idea of movies. Noxon graduated from Oakes College at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1987 with a B.A. in Theater Arts. 2Career 3Early career Initially Noxon wanted to be an actor because it seemed glamorous, but after trying for a while realized it wasn't something she wanted to do. She said she had always been told that writing was her strength, and eventually that was what she focused o