Marti Noxon

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Birth Name: Martha Mills Noxon

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Date of Birth: August 25, 1964

Ethnicity: English, Irish

Marti Noxon is an American television and film writer, director, producer. She has created, and written on, the series Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, UnREAL, Dietland, and Sharp Objects, written on the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and written the films I Am Number Four, Fright Night (2011), The Glass Castle, and To the Bone, the latter of which she also directed.

Marti is the daughter of Mary and English-born filmmaker Nicolas Noxon (born Nicolas Lane Noxon). She was raised in Santa Monica, California. Her brother is writer and journalist Christopher Noxon, and her sister-in-law, Christopher’s wife, is television writer Jenji Kohan. Marti has two children with her former husband Jeff Bynum.

Marti’s paternal grandfather was Gerald Forbes Noxon, a writer and filmmaker (the son of William Courtlandt Noxon and Georgina Elizabeth Furby). Gerald was from Ontario, Canada. William was the son of James Noxon and Margaret Jane McDonald. Georgina was the daughter of George Manning Furby, whose father was from East Yorkshire, England, and of Jane Peters.

Marti’s paternal grandmother was Betty Lane, a painter (born Elizabeth Thoburn Lane, the daughter of Rufus Herman Lane and Gertrude Mills). Betty was born in Washington, D.C. Rufus was the son of Isaac Lane and Mary. Gertrude was the daughter of James Mills and Eliza.

Marti’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Straley.

Source: Genealogy of Marti Noxon (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com