One might say that Joss' career path was inevitable. A third generation writer, his father Tom Whedon and Grandfather John Whedon were both notable TV writers, their credits included Leave It To Beaver, The Donna Reed Show and Benson.

Joss grew up in Manhattan, New York and then moved to England where he attended 'Winchester College all-boys school'. He later attended 'Wesleyan University' where he studied and received a degree in film studies. He moved to Los Angeles, CA shortly thereafter and landed his first writing job as a story editor on Roseanne, even writing several of the episodes. His next job was as co-producer and writer on the show Parenthood.

It was around this time that Joss sold his first film script, namely Buffy The Vampire Slayer the movie. Filming began, but it soon became clear to Joss that his vision of Buffy wasn’t being taken seriously, leading to him walking off the set. Disappointed with his first attempt to break in to movies, Joss shelved Buffy and moved onto other writing projects, including the hugely successful Toy Story.

Then in 1997 Joss was approached by casting agent Gail Berman, her intention was to revive Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but this time as a TV series. This time Joss would be given full control of the show. The resurrected version of Buffy became an overnight success.

During this time Joss also wrote the 4th instalment of the Alien franchise, Alien: Resurrection. Then, in 1999, with the success of Buffy, Joss started on the spin-off Angel.

In 2000 Joss was asked to revise the script for X-Men, which he reportedly completely re-wrote, although his final draft was sidelined by the studio.

Then in 2002 Joss started on Firefly. This latest project didn’t receive well and after only 12 episodes, the show was cancelled. The next year saw the end of Joss’ much beloved Buffy and shortly thereafter, the cancellation of Angel. With the Buffy-verse in mourning and through much speculation of more spin-offs, it came as a surprise to many that Joss choose to resurrect Firefly, this time in movie form and re-titled Serenity.

More recently Joss along with writer Brett Matthews and in association with Dark Horse comics, has produced a number of Serenity prequal comicbooks, and is currently working with comicbook artist John Cassaday in association with Marvel^TM Comics, to produce a series of Astonishing X-Men comics.

Writer, Producer and Director Credits

2006 – Wonder Woman

2005 – Serenity

2003 – Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds (uncredited)

2002 – Firefly

2001 – Atlantis: The Lost Empire

2000 – Buffy The Vampire Slayer (VG) (uncredited)

2000 – Titan A.E. (screenplay)

1999 – Angel (creator)

1997 – Alien: Resurrection

1997 – Buffy the Vampire Slayer (creator)

1995 – Toy Story

1992 – Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie)

1990 – Parenthood

1988 – Roseanne