---
name: "Marti Noxon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marti-noxon"
fi1m_id: "marti-noxon"
imdb_id: "nm0637497"
tmdb_id: 149495
wikidata_id: "Q1421616"
roles: ["Writer","Producer","Director"]
born: "25 August 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-23T14:05:10.490506+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Marti Noxon

## Identity

Marti Noxon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marti-noxon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marti-noxon
- **IMDb ID:** nm0637497
- **TMDB ID:** 149495
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1421616
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marti_Noxon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1421616, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637497/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/149495

Writer and producer. Born 25 August 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer, Director
- **Born:** 25 August 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Active:** 1997–2018
- **Also known as:** مارتي نوكسون
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 7: 1 acting, 1 directing, 4 writing, 1 producing
- **Frequently works with:** [Bill D'Elia](https://film.one/person/bill-delia.md), [Dan Attias](https://film.one/person/dan-attias.md), [Eric Stoltz](https://film.one/person/eric-stoltz.md), [Joss Whedon](https://film.one/person/joss-whedon.md), [Lesli Linka Glatter](https://film.one/person/lesli-linka-glatter.md), [Michael Grossman](https://film.one/person/michael-grossman.md), [Michael Uppendahl](https://film.one/person/michael-uppendahl.md), [Paul McCrane](https://film.one/person/paul-mccrane.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as writer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 80 (1), 2000s 75 (5), 2010s 84 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 74 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Mystery 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marti_Noxon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1421616, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0637497/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/149495

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*](https://film.one/tv/buffy-the-vampire-slayer.md) (80), [*Glee*](https://film.one/tv/glee.md) (68), [*Grey's Anatomy*](https://film.one/tv/greys-anatomy.md) (68)
- **AMC+:** [*Mad Men*](https://film.one/tv/mad-men.md) (88)
- **HBO Max:** [*Sharp Objects*](https://film.one/tv/sharp-objects.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Marti Noxon

> Marti Noxon is at her strongest when a genre story gives a difficult woman room to be angry, evasive or wrong. We rate her highly, though the dialogue can be too pleased with itself and the stories too long.

In *Sharp Objects* (2018), Amy Adams's reporter Camille Preaker goes home to Wind Gap to cover a murder. Soon her mother's house matters more than the investigation. We were unsettled by that shift, because the series makes us attend to what this town did to Camille before she left. Noxon gives Camille's difficulties time and attention instead of treating them as background information for the next piece of detective work.

Noxon had already used supernatural stories to explore recognisable hurt in *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (1997). She joined as story editor in the second season and later became showrunner for the sixth and seventh. Alongside writers Joss Whedon and Jane Espenson, she helped make a programme whose dialogue sometimes gives everyone the same supply of ready answers. Sarah Michelle Gellar makes the heroine's irritation affecting, but the scripts can interrupt an unpleasant feeling with a joke just when it needs time. The performances give us good reason to forgive the writing, though not on every occasion.

Work as a writer on the patient, absorbing *Mad Men* (2007) was followed by series she helped shape from the outset. With *UnREAL* (2015), co-created with Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, the workplace was reality television production. She then created *Dietland* (2018), a dark comedy about body image and anger. These choices make sense for a writer drawn to women who make bad decisions and still deserve the story's attention.

For *Sharp Objects*, Noxon adapts Gillian Flynn's novel, while Jean-Marc Vallée directs all eight episodes. The cutting is restless but precise, and Adams and Patricia Clarkson give us reason to stay through the pauses. Eight episodes are about two too many, with the middle particularly slow. That is a real flaw in a series so dependent on sustained attention. Start there, with patience for a murder mystery more interested in Camille than in supplying the next clue.

## Biography

Marti Noxon is an American television and film writer, director and producer. She graduated with a B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1987.

Noxon joined the writing staff of *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (1997) in its second season and rose to executive producer and showrunner. She wrote or co-wrote numerous episodes and directed two. She later served as consulting producer and writer on *Mad Men* (2007), contributing to two Writers Guild of America Awards for Best Dramatic Series.

Her other credits include creating and executive producing *UnREAL* (2015) and *Sharp Objects* (2018), writing the films *I Am Number Four* (2011) and *Fright Night* (2011), and writing and directing *To the Bone* (2017).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (7)

### Performed in (1)

- *Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog* (2008), Fi1m 81, as Newswoman — [page](https://film.one/tv/dr-horribles-sing-along-blog.md)

### Directed (1)

- *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (1997), Fi1m 80, Story Editor, Staff Writer, Executive Producer, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/buffy-the-vampire-slayer.md)

### Wrote (4) — the average rests on these

- *Sharp Objects* (2018), Fi1m 84, Creator, Writer, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/sharp-objects.md)
- *Glee* (2009), Fi1m 68, Consulting Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/glee.md)
- *Mad Men* (2007), Fi1m 88, Writer, Consulting Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/mad-men.md)
- *Grey's Anatomy* (2005), Fi1m 68, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/greys-anatomy.md)

### Produced (1)

- *Prison Break* (2005), Fi1m 68, Consulting Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/prison-break.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window* (2022), series, Creative Consultant
- *Sharp Objects* (2018), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/sharp-objects.md)
- *Dietland* (2018), series, Director, Creator
- *To the Bone* (2017), Screenplay, Director
- *Code Black* (2015), series, Executive Producer
- *UnREAL* (2015), series, Executive Producer, Teleplay, Creator
- *Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce* (2014), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator
- *Code Black* (2014), Executive Producer
- *Fright Night* (2011), Screenplay
- *I Am Number Four* (2011), Screenplay
- *Gigantic* (2010), series, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Glee* (2009), series, Writer, Consulting Producer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/glee.md)
- *Commentary! The Musical* (2008), Actor
- *Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog* (2008), series, as Newswoman — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/dr-horribles-sing-along-blog.md)
- *Private Practice* (2007), series, Executive Producer, Writer
- *Mad Men* (2007), series, Consulting Producer, Writer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/mad-men.md)
- *Brothers and Sisters* (2006), series, Executive Producer
- *Prison Break* (2005), series, Consulting Producer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/prison-break.md)
- *Grey's Anatomy* (2005), series, Consulting Producer, Executive Producer, Writer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/greys-anatomy.md)
- *Point Pleasant* (2005), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *Still Life* (2003), series, Executive Producer, Scenario Writer
- *Godmoney* (1999), as Wife
- *Angel* (1999), series, Consulting Producer, Writer
- *Just a Little Harmless Sex* (1999), Writer
- *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* (1997), series, as Parking Ticket Woman · Co-Producer, Supervising Producer, Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Staff Writer, Story Editor — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/buffy-the-vampire-slayer.md)

## Gallery

- ![This photo includes Co-Creator/ Executive Producer Mari Noxon, Actor Shiri Appleby and Co-Creator Sarah Gertrude Shapiro from Lifetime's "UnREAL." (Photo/Sarah  (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/61133/gallery-120506bcb23f.jpg) This photo includes Co-Creator/ Executive Producer Mari Noxon, Actor Shiri Appleby and Co-Creator Sarah Gertrude Shapiro from Lifetime's "UnREAL." (Photo/Sarah  (2016) — Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Mari_Noxon%2C_Shiri_Appleby_and_Sarah_Gertrude_Shapiro%2C_May_2016.jpg/1280px-Mari_Noxon%2C_Shiri_Appleby_and_Sarah_Gertrude_Shapiro%2C_May_2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![This photo includes Marti Noxon, Executive Producer of "UnREAL." (Photo/Sarah E. Freeman/Grady College, freemans@uga.edu in New York City, Georgia, on Saturday, (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/61133/gallery-9b1fa9120f32.jpg) This photo includes Marti Noxon, Executive Producer of "UnREAL." (Photo/Sarah E. Freeman/Grady College, freemans@uga.edu in New York City, Georgia, on Saturday, (2016) — Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Marti_Noxon%2C_May_2016.jpg/1280px-Marti_Noxon%2C_May_2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![This photo includes Co-Creator/ Executive Producer Mari Noxon, Actor Shiri Appleby and Co-Creator Sarah Gertrude Shapiro from Lifetime's "UnREAL." (Photo/Sarah  (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/61133/gallery-2818f2d79f4e.jpg) This photo includes Co-Creator/ Executive Producer Mari Noxon, Actor Shiri Appleby and Co-Creator Sarah Gertrude Shapiro from Lifetime's "UnREAL." (Photo/Sarah  (2016) — (Photo/Sarah E. Freeman/Grady College, freemans@uga.edu in New York City, Georgia, on Saturday, May 21, 2016), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Marti_Noxon%2C_Shiri_Appleby_and_Sarah_Gertrude_Shapiro_at_the_75th_Annual_Peabody_Awards_for_UnREAL.jpg/1280px-Marti_Noxon%2C_Shiri_Appleby_and_Sarah_Gertrude_Shapiro_at_the_75th_Annual_Peabody_Awards_for_UnREAL.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![(Photo/Sarah E. Freeman/Grady College, freemans@uga.edu in New York City, Georgia, on Saturday, May 21, 2016)](https://film.one/media/person/61133/gallery-4d1ef530a8e5.jpg) (Photo/Sarah E. Freeman/Grady College, freemans@uga.edu in New York City, Georgia, on Saturday, May 21, 2016) — Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Marti_Noxon_2016.jpg/1280px-Marti_Noxon_2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Marti Noxon](https://film.one/media/person/61133/gallery-ea985a7e19d8.jpg) Marti Noxon — Image via TMDB
- ![Marti Noxon](https://film.one/media/person/61133/gallery-fd6f6b9b3289.jpg) Marti Noxon — Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Marti_Noxon_2016_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Marti_Noxon_2016_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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