Martha Mills Noxon (born August 25, 1964) is an American television and film writer, director, and producer. She is best known for her work as a screenwriter and executive producer on the supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003). She was also executive producer, writer, and creator of the Bravo comedy-drama series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce (2015–18) and the Lifetime drama series UnREAL (2015–18). She was an executive producer of the CBS medical drama series Code Black (2015–17). Noxon also wrote the science fiction action film I Am Number Four (2011), the horror thriller film Fright Night (2011), and the biographical drama film The Glass Castle (2017). She wrote and directed the drama film To the Bone (2017). 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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Biography from TMDB.
- August 25, 1964 (62)
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Producer, writer and director
- 20 on MovieCove · 25 credits in all
Known for
What are Marti Noxon's films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
Light 1 · Serious 2 · Dark 1
Grounded 2 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0
A split, not a type: Gentle 1 · Charged 1 · Intense 2
Steady 1 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
A split, not a type: Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 1
Casual 2 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 1
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy3
- Bittersweet2
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Marti Noxon's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 15 of their 20 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Hulu (8).
- Prison Break (2005) · producer
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) · actor, director, writer, producer
- Angel (1999) · writer, producer
- Grey's Anatomy (2005) · writer, producer
- Brothers & Sisters (2006) · producer
- Fright Night (2011) · writer
- Private Practice (2007) · writer, producer
- Glee (2009) · writer, producer
Subscription and free streaming for Marti Noxon's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
25 credits, 20 with a MovieCove page; 2 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all shows
Sharp Objects(2018)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all shows
Dietland(2018)
Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all shows
To the Bone(2017)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Code Black(2015)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all shows
UnREAL(2015)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all shows
Code Black(2013)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Fright Night(2011)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
I Am Number Four(2011)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
Gigantic(2010)
Midcredits score: 6th percentile of all shows
Glee(2009)
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all shows
Commentary! The Musical (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Private Practice(2007)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all shows
Mad Men(2007)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Brothers & Sisters(2006)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all shows
Prison Break(2005)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows
Grey's Anatomy(2005)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all shows
Point Pleasant (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Still Life (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Godmoney (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
Angel(1999)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all films
Buffy the Vampire Slayer(1997)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows
Career shape
A full career of 25 titles from 1997 to 2022.
Biggest box office
I Am Number Four (2011)
Highest rated
To the Bone (2017)
Most popular right now
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (2022)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Marti Noxon's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 57th percentile, the median of all 5; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 46th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up9
- 50th to 74th3
- 25th to 49th5
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
10 of their 20 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved4
- Divisive1
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser10
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed3
Reviewers score the dialogue 45/100 and the plot and story 38/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Marti Noxon's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 4 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Marti Noxon work with?
People who share at least 2 of Marti Noxon's MovieCove titles; Rick Rosenthal shares the most, 2.
- Rick RosenthalShared titles: Gigantic (2010), Just a Little Harmless Sex (1998)See all 2 shared titles with Rick Rosenthal
